Dev Update #56

Hello Patrons!

I hope you're all doing well. Things have been good here. I have nothing to complain about.
I'll get right into the progress of the next update. First, I should have posted this last week. I've been working away on the update, and it totally slipped my mind until someone in Discord asked a question. My apologies for that.

So, like I just said, I've been working really hard on the update. And as I was playing through what I had already finished, I felt that two of the scenes could benefit from adding a little more to them. So that's what I did. I added to the scenes and fleshed them out a little bit more than originally scripted. I like the scenes a lot better now. So now I'm a little behind where I should be, and the progress image percentages are corrupted. With that said, I am currently finishing the big climax of the update, which is a story-driven scene, which is really awesome scene, by the way. But it's also a lot of work. The whole scene changes environments like 5 or 6 times. So that's 5 or 6 maps I have to setup and then do the lighting and posing. (I also modded/ported new maps and items myself for a lot of it.) But I am at the end of that scene, and then I start the last scene, the spicy one with all the animations, and the update is finished. The animated scenes always take the longest, so bear with me; we are almost to the end.

To save time, I'll probably give the update to my testers and proofreaders while I'm working on the final scene. I get asked a lot about helping with the proofreading and testing. I just wanted to let everyone know that I already have a small team that helps with that. If someone can't do it this time, I will reach out to someone on Discord with whom I'm familiar. You don't need to ask.
Currently, I have about 1300 renders finished and 73 animations. That's everything new I have to report this time, but not too much longer to go.

Have a nice morning/day/evening/night, everyone!
-Jestur