Status Update - June 17

Hello!

Thank you for supporting my Patreon! The response to kemorig has been tremendous and I can't thank you enough.

Since there are many new faces, I'll use this status update to let you in on the various things I work on.

This is what I do these days:

• kemorig - This is my main project right now. The vast majority of my dev hours are devoted to kemorig.

• Streaming - I stream on Twitch every weekday! Sometimes I stream work, and sometimes I stream games. When I went indie I didn't initially have Twitch in-mind, but the way the cookie crumbled, turns out Twitch has been a very worthwhile and fulfilling part of my indie life. And I discovered VTubers are super cool!

• Unreal Plugins - I have released 2 code plugins on the Unreal Marketplace, and will probably release more over time. These are things I wrote for my own projects, and were worth polishing up for release. These take up a bit of my time, doing support for users, updating, and bug fixing.

• 3D Art/Animation - I do 3D art, especially cel shaded characters, in-part to support future indie games. With kemorig's release, art has taken a back-seat, but over time I expect to shift back into art more.

• Game Projects? - I have a game prototype I was previously working on, but once I decided to make kemorig, the game had to get put on pause. What I was working on was a short experimental narrative game, which was something of a test-bed for my 3D art style. This can is kicked down the road until kemorig no longer requires my full attention.

kemorig status 

The next kemorig update is on-track to release this month, and the big new feature is custom levels! And it's going to be very fancy: levels are streamed-in and loaded without interrupting your avatar! Check out the video above for a sneak peek (it uses a level from the Unreal Marketplace).

Even if you don't want an environment for your avatar, levels are still a useful way to make your own lighting setup, and your own scripted camera positions. For example, for my stream I will be using a custom level to place camera positions for my stances, and blend between them during transitions.

After levels are done, I will most likely be tackling webcam tracking.

Thanks for reading!

-PROTO