Progress 26/09/2022

 

So, I will most likely release update 15 without proofreading. Normally, I'd wait for Adry to finish up, but when life is being a dick, it will be a dick in almost every possible way. And we've worked well together for two years now, give or take, so I'll have his back and let him sort the stuff out without the extra pressure from me because my brain being panicky because it's close to the end of the month, and I've had only one release this month... and panic intensifies. Well, not really. I'm relaxed at the moment, so no worries.

Anyway, I'll issue a proofreading patch later on. It isn't something I haven't done before. The text has been run through Grammarly, so outside of weird phrasing that totally makes sense to me and my brain, it should be readable. And it will take a day or two to upload anyway cause the net is being a pain in the backside.

But moving on. Update 16, which I'm doing right now, is going well. Rendering is smooth. Technically speaking, I've done 1/3 of it script-wise. That isn't accurate since it is missing the image placements and doesn't account for the image sequences since those are harder to estimate, as it might take five or fifty until I'm satisfied with how it looks.

And moving on to the writing side of things. I had a moment of clarity last night, or is it inspiration? Either way, the puzzle pieces managed to fall into place, and it's going nicely. I like those moments. I know how the story ends, and I know how it starts. It's just filling the gap between the beginning and the end in "logical order" that is the hard part. Does this bit need to go here? Is this long enough? Should I add x to y? Or do this that way or the other. Adding more days is always a possibility, but that isn't something you want to do just for the sake of it since, at some point, it will start working against you.

Anyway, I'm in a writing mood, so I could ramble for hours, and while I've been rambling, I've hit half of today's render goal. Yay, go me!

One-on-one talks with the green giant. I'm not sure what to write here outside of that. There are things I want to write, but it would spoil things, so it might be better to keep quiet about them in that case. 

As for the extra render? I just wanted to render some orcs to see if the idea I have is viable.