Progress 09.05.2025

Hello all!

Somewhat early today, surprisingly, anyway.

Rendering is done, update has been sent to testing and... that's about it, really. So, I'll write what I have left of 0.44.0 over the weekend, and then start rendering the update 0.41.0 on Monday. The usual stuff. Big shock there. I should be able to do the builds tomorrow... again, as usual. All of this is of course with the usual caveats (storms/power/internet/etc.)

And since I ran out of stuff that I can show, cause you know, spoilers. Thus something from the motivational render side...

Sorry about the darkish image, but certain types of forests can be dark even during daylight. Which is why the couple strategically placed flashlights. Sadly there isn't night time version of the HDRI used in the background. Eh it works. This was originally a "fun" idea that I had in my head, then it spiralled into effect testing... I am and I'm not happy with the arm effect that Alexander has. I'm happy how it works, for most parts, I'm not exactly happy how it looks, I would like it to be more fire like, but unfortunately creating that kind of opacity map isn't within my skill set, or creating textures for that matter. Eh anyway, I learned what I wanted and sort of needed from making this image. Anyway, back to writing with me and doing some auxiliary work for ToaM. You all have a great weekend!