Dev Update 9/12/22

Hey, friends! Whoo! I took a much-needed day off from rendering after the release of the Beta on Friday, but now I'm back at it!

I'm chipping away at my to-do list for the public version of Chapter Three, with my current focus being on fixing old renders I wasn't happy with. I've learned a lot about working the camera and lighting in Daz, and I think it shows. Check out the new versions (red skirt) of Chapter Two's cliffhanger, compared to the old versions (green skirt). Like night and day! 

All in all, I've fixed over 20 renders - some of these were in Ashe's scenes (mostly positioning with her feet being screwed up due to to her high heels), but several were in Gabby's scenes. She had a lot of clipping issues that I just never noticed, so I've corrected all of it that I could find. So, when the public version comes out, maybe revisit those scenes and see if they look any nicer! :D I'd share them here, but they're all pretty saucy, which is a Patreon no-no for public posts.

Besides that, I'm working on adding a small scene to Viola's content in Chapter Three. Her scene had been troubling me since I wrote and rendered it, and I finally decided that she needs to have a lighter corruption scene, in addition to her current content. Hoping I can get it into the public version, as it's not a lot of renders, and I've already written and coded it.

I'm slowly picking away at the script for Chapter Four. Right now I have the opening scene (which includes three variations) as well as plot structure all sketched out. But, getting Chapter Three ready (and chasing down bugs and broken images) has kept me pretty busy all week.

Speaking of which, I found and corrected three broken/mislabeled images in Chapter Three, all of which I think were in Viola's branch. I also corrected a number of minor typos. It's clear my brain was kind of mush by the time I got that Beta out to you guys. :,D

With the bulk of the broken/poorly done images corrected, now I have some time to complete the basic animations for Chapter Three. These will basically be like the animations from The Student Loan, to don't expect full, fluid animation. But, they should still be fun.

Still on my to-do list:

• Complete the script for FiN Chapter Four.
• Clean up the code/story for FiN Chapter One, while building on Nicki, MC, and Brent's dynamic.
• Complete the script for Orc Exchange.
• Begin rendering FiN Chapter Four, and the revamped Chapter One.

I think that's it for now! The work continues, but I have a little more breathing room now, and I'm going to try to make this next dev cycle a little smoother. Gonna try real hard to work smart, not hard. But uhhhh, we'll see how that goes..

Until next time, have a good one! The next version will go out to $2+ patrons on Wednesday!