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Dev Talk - Post Launch
It feels nice to have a less stressful week now that episode two has been released. The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive and it truly brought a smile to my face, thank you!
I spent most of the week writing the outline of episode three. Normally I spend the first two weeks focusing on improving or exploring the technical side of things, such as shaders, scripting, etc, followed by about two weeks dedicated to writing the episode. This time around I'm mostly avoiding dedicating time towards technical improvements as well as writing the episode out the entire episode.
I'm flying out to Europe in a couple of weeks to spend a week looking for a place to live. Since I won't be able to render during this time, I figure that spending that week writing the rest of episode would be a better use of my time. For now, I'll spend the next few days writing out the first few parts of episode three so that I have something to render before flying out.
I've also spent a couple of days fixing some issues that were present since episode one. MC's dick was as broken as his brain. Any sort of movement outside of the default position created massive deformations that required manual corrections which still looked off. This seems to now be resolved. Another technical issue was that Ma's thumbs were also broken. They only bended sideways which made a lot of scenes, especially the HJ's, a nightmare to pose. This has also been resolved.
Lastly, I may have accidentally stumbled onto a technical improvement. Normally I simulate clothes in Marvelous Designer, do retopology in Blender, redo the sim in Marvelous Designer and then bring it back to Blender. I was feeling lazy yesterday and decided to see if I could just skip the retopology work altogether and use the raw high poly Marvelous Designer sim for renders but use a crappy low poly version for posing. It seems to have worked, although it hasn't been battle tested yet. If this does go through without issues, then future manipulation of the clothes will be even easier, especially pockets/zippers/buttons.
To end things on a sexy note, I finally gave MC new undies. He was rocking those construction paper looking briefs for two episodes now and it was high time he gets a proper pair.
Verrrrry niiice, how much!?
Cheers,
Dom