Hello, I apologise for my silence, but I am completely swamped with work.
What I can say is that I have continued to make progress on Version: Ch.1 v7 of Melissa's adventures.
CosmoK left a lot of work unfinished, some of it functional, some not. I've decided to show you some of the R&D and behind-the-scenes work (on Daz, for example).
I tried to see if I could take on CosmoK's work, but I'm not a Daz expert like him, and Melissa is not my creation. She is CosmoK's, and it took him years of refinement and consistent adjustments to bring this creature to life. And then what's the point? All of this made sense with CosmoK...
All this made sense with CosmoK, and I was very comfortable and in my place helping him with the complexities of texture and UVWMAP unfolding, or welding vertices.
I tried to see if I could continue ‘alone’. Here are two pieces of work I did on my own, but what's the point? What I do has nothing to do with what CosmoK produces.
Here is an example of what I tried one day while thinking about it. (R&D Melissa attached)
The most important thing is that CosmoK still hasn't given any sign of life.
I'm working on Version: Ch.1 v7. It contains a lot of often rough renderings, unfinished pieces of many segments of the script (CosmoK worked on a whim and sometimes felt like preparing a particular rendering of a particular scene), so we have a patchwork.
Reorganising all this and refining it is not that simple, but it's still good work on his part. And I think that if something bad really did happen to him, you might as well see his work, because it's his work that made you stick with his Melissa adventures. And then, many of you have spoken to him privately, and CosmoK has also helped a lot of people in this community, so...
So I'm sorry for the delay, I have a pretty overwhelming workload in my life, but I'm trying to move forward with V7 when I can.
Please understand that it is with the utmost sincerity that I am communicating here about this abnormal development: the disappearance of a person, and me finding myself isolated.
Thank you for your understanding, real life is difficult.