The future of Tempus

Hey all. Haven't checked in for a bit. Let's talk about what's been going on.

New Tempus update is in the works. What started as a simple project to add a Community Shaders profile has, perhaps predictably, blown up into a much larger update. Playing the list on stream has honestly just made me unhappy with certain things, so I keep wanting to go change various aspects to make it better and more fun.

I say predictably because...well, I have a tendency to do this. It's just never enough, you know?

Anyway, if you don't tune into my streams (which you should, 2:30 pm est every day on twitch except thursdays), you haven't learned the latest and hottest gossip yet. I have a feeling this is something that will be both surprising and delightful for many people. I hope so, anyway.

Next version of Tempus will be using BFCO.

I've spent so much time converting and editing and prioritizing and conditioning animations lately. It's finally, finally starting to look half decent. And it's a lot of fun, too. Most importantly, combat is just...better. It looks better, it feels better, you can be a total badass and block a chain of combos or just go full offensive mode and tornado your way through enemies. Super cool stuff.

Anyway, just wanted to spread the word a bit. Thanks for all your support here and on discord and twitch and youtube and wherever else.

Of course, I gotta do a little plug at the end here. Just want to say, I do appreciate you all, paid and free members alike. As many of you know, I quit my job in November, making this is my primary income source now, so I would like to simply ask: if you're willing to kick in an extra $1 or $3 per month to help offset the bills here, it would be amazingly beneficial.

Another great way to support me though: if you've got Amazon Prime, you can subscribe to my Twitch channel over on twitch.tv/livelymods. It costs you nothing!

But don't worry. It's not required, and I'll keep doing this either way. Ain't nothin' getting paywalled or anything like that. I'd go work at a shitty fast food chain before I paywalled something to make money. (note: that's not a dig at fast food employees, I worked in restaurants for 17 years, it's a soul-destroying business).

Have a lovely day! I gotta get back to conditioning some scimitars and spears...