Hey everyone!
Weekly check-in time. Last week I mentioned parts being on backorder. I did find a shop that had them available and the quantity I needed. I immediately ordered and even though I paid for overnight delivery, I got lucky and they shipped it via the slowest method possible by mistake. Anyways fast forward to now and they'll be delivered today, and I'll be putting the server back together. I'm excited to get the ol' girl fired back up again and start doing fun holiday and one-off renders when time allows.
I mentioned the cooing sound Artemis makes during CH5 will be added in the next patch (0.6.2). There'll be a new volume setting in the config menu for voice. So if you wish to turn it off, you can mute it there.
I'm also bringing back the auto-save feature that occurs just before a chapter ends. It will take up slot 1 on page 99. You can still save during the "make a save now" screen, but this is more of a failsafe. This is something I'm building on and refining. But is the plan right now and as I go forward in development, things may change a bit. So the save menu will get a small facelift.
On the subject of saves, I'll also be working on splitting the books up. With the release of the last chapter, it's clear it's needed at this point with how big the chapters are getting. As a whole, next chapter will bring the whole thing a bit over 20GB in size. Splitting the exe's up into proper books (Book One Ch1-4, Book Two, Ch5-8, etc.) will be cleaner and of course easier to download. I'll be looking into coding the saves, so if you're on Book Two and load a Book One save, it won't error out. The way I've coded the game already, you shouldn't have to do anything special like save transfer or anything like that. Something we'll be testing out in the next beta phase though. In theory, you should be able to merge the books if you choose to. Something I'll also be testing to verify this.
Additionally, my NAS upgrades are complete. As my asset library and project as a whole grows, I needed more space. So I purchased a JBOD unit and more storage. I increased my snapshots from once a day to twice. Which means I have another option in case of a whoopsie with a scene file. I'm also cleaning up my DAZ database. I noticed I have a lot of stuff that I don't use. So, I'm off-loading them and doing a bit of re-organizing. When creating background characters. There were a lot of outfits I skipped over because they weren't great quality.
On top of all that, I've been organizing the events for this chapter and writing out scenes. I bought a whiteboard for my storyboards and just general scene organizing. I love tech as you can see above, but I can still be a bit analog. Sticky notes are my best friend.
With a final note for this log, once I get the render box back online. I'll also be fixing some of the lewd scenes. Specifically, Kindra's and June's. Reina's too. Just some tweaks. Kindra's camera movement was too quick, June's hair was a bit too glossy, and Reina's hair was very dark.
That wraps it up for last week! Weather is starting to warm up! Remember to hydrate!
-digi
