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Hello, dear Patrons! It's time for our first update on the reworking of Chapter 1.
Foremost, I hope everyone had a great festive season with their families.
Let's dive in. As you know, I've been involved in enhancing the early chapters of the game, especially Chapter 1 and Chapter 2, which require new static renders and animations. This was planned for quite some time and couldn't be delayed any further. As I mentioned before, it's not a challenging task as the story is set. I just need to recreate the scenes with higher graphic quality, and I've been working on this since the release of Chapter 07.
Due to the holiday season, I couldn't fully focus on the project. However, I can confirm that Chapter 1 is 50% complete with new images and animations.
It's fascinating to see how much we've evolved in these almost three years of the project. Next month, we'll mark three years of W2H, and I'm immensely grateful to most of you who've been with us from the beginning.
I'm not sure if you remember, but W2H's first chapter had only 180 low-quality images with static characters and short dialogues. That's no longer the case.
I'm making significant changes in the number of images for this reworked Chapter 1. I believe we'll have over 500 static images and around 10 to 15 new animations in this chapter alone. It's an incredible transformation compared to the previous chapter. Don't worry, as I mentioned earlier, the story won't be affected. It'll just receive a more detailed explanation so that the dialogues make even more sense and provide a deeper understanding of the plot.
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One area that still challenges me is lighting certain environments, although it's not as it used to be. Perhaps you recall a scene where a meeting takes place in Rebecca's garden just after MC's transformation. The lighting was excessively bright, and back then, my excuse was that Rebecca used reflectors to simulate daylight in that area. (Laughs... what nonsense; I actually didn't know how to darken an environment back then.) Nowadays, I can do that, and I completely reworked that scene with the correct lighting this time. (I can still improve, but I haven't mastered everything yet, haha.)
This revision of the lighting made that scene much more engaging, removing all that brightness and the daytime atmosphere. Now, the environment is subtly lit, giving the sensation of night, as it should be. Not to mention, in that scene, characters like Rebecca and Anabelle used to speak with closed mouths - that's no longer the case. I quadrupled the number of images in that scene and added three animations. I want that initial meeting to be pleasantly comfortable and revealing.
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Another aspect that made me uncomfortable in the first chapter was the portrayal of MC's physique. During the shower, it was noticeable that MC's physique had significantly improved after the transformation. However, when MC met Rebecca and Anabelle in the garden, he appeared extremely thin, which is no longer the case. Now, MC has the same physique as seen in the mirror during the shower, and nothing is as exaggerated as before because I had less experience with the program back then.
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Folks, I won't delve into many details now as I still have some new ideas to implement in W2H, and we'll decide that together in a future poll. Speaking of polls, this week I'll bring the finalist of the "Girl of the Month" for December, which I couldn't post in time due to the year-end festivities.
Stay tuned for various posts I'll make throughout this week as we'll have new polls for you to participate in.
Wishing everyone an excellent week and a Happy 2024!
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