Progress 06.02.2023

 

And time for a progress post.

Proofreading is still progressing. But I've set a release date regardless of its status, but more of that towards the end of the week. 

I started rendering update 25 yesterday, and it's going fairly nicely. Daz is still being annoying, but that's nothing new.

And writing is on update 29. Honestly, at the moment, I'm not entirely sure how many updates there are left overall. There are a few events I need to write before I can move on to the finale. Seems sudden? Not really. We have been moving along toward the final phase of the Sentinel Stations story for a while. It's just the speed is accelerating now in a certain sense. But there is still a while to go.

I tried to make a sci-fi render for this update since I can't show you anything from update 25, well, almost anything, without giving major spoilers. But it wasn't happening. When you work with X day in and day out, it's just... So you get to see what I do with the other Daz instance while I wait for renders and the mood to write.

One of the issues, generally speaking, with DAZ is that there is a limit on available assets. With how many VN's are out and coming out daily, you are bound to use the same assets. I'm fairly certain you've all seen that one particular clothing store... a lot.

So, you have to alter them somehow. It doesn't need to be a major alteration, but enough to make sure it looks different. The change is relatively small, but it does alter the scene enough. Although unfortunately, it became a bit heavy to render in the scene I wanted. But I still can use it, just not with as many people as I would have wanted.

It isn't easy as a novice mage vs. younger and more experienced students... 

And then there is this. I've said it before, testing is part of the process. What works, and what doesn't. Then at times, it is trying something you haven't tried before. Iyanda came to be from one of those experiments. With animal figures, it's more challenging as there are fewer resources for them than for humans. But that doesn't mean one can't try to do things. This particular experiment? Didn't work as well as I would had hoped for. Still a nice render.