Progress 15.09.2025

Hello all!

Remember when I said something about famous last words? Yeah... On the positive side though, I've made three weeks worth of renders in two weeks. So what's up?

Doing the final scene of 0.49.0. It's been... a lot. The exact render count at the time of writing this is 613 renders; it's probably somewhat higher when this post goes live. Most of the coding is done for the update, just need to get the rest of the render names, as I've learned my lesson that I should not guess how many renders I end up needing. Usually, it’s a lot more than what I think, and it throws the names off, and then I have to redo them. It's not much though, about thirty renders maybe. Although now that I've said it, with how this update has gone, it's probably a hundred.

Writing is going, I've been altering between Sorcerer 2 and the scenes with the LI's, it's basically a short catch up so there isn't that many ways to say "yeah I'm fine, so how about we do X/Y/Z?" But yeah, all is good on that front. Relatively anyway.

Complex scenes. This... is the final preview of the update, well, for obvious reasons. Next time I'm doing a progress report, I'll be on 0.50.0... hopefully I didn't jinx it now. As you can see, things aren't going that well somewhere in the Empire... Pity that I didn't have the buildings at the start of ToaM, things would have been somewhat different in certain places. But yeah, they will be useful going forward. There are places where old-style Asian buildings still exist. And can always do flashbacks if need be... and if things require.

And the Imp, friend or foe? Truthfully, the imp never was a foe. He spied Alexander, yes, that was clearly seen. And he aided him when he awakened, partially covering the tracks and keeping him safe during the fire of the warehouse. Just certain someone didn't like him spying on hubby... In all honesty, the imp wasn’t even in the original script beyond the appearance in the warehouse where Alexander awakened. But then empty backgrounds needed filling, and Maie happened, also a character that wasn’t originally in the scripts and was mostly improvised on the spot during rendering. All worked out well in the end.

 

And this... this was just me being... let’s just say slightly loopy. While I haven’t really worked hard for this update, not like the one I did end of April; that was bad, it hasn't been exactly easy. For this, I’ve kept mostly to my normal schedule of work, sleep and breaks, just so I shouldn’t read anything late at night... I might get stuck with it and go to bed later than I intended... Another random character for mostly background stuff. He will return since it is vacation time for him when Sorcerer 2 starts... And maybe some more poker with Sobek, for him... Well not really Sobek but you know what I mean. Anyway, short break, and then finishing the renders.