I'm suffering from my own handsomeness | Devlog 21/07/2026

Hey guys! It's me, ya boi~ \(>,<)/

It's been crazy for the past few weeks. We're about to send my little sister to Uni next month, and boyyy that shit expensive nowadays... My family took a pretty big hit financially from it, that's why I've been doing a lot more work IRL and also do some extra stuffs to help things going around the house. I dropped out from a law school 7 years ago. Well, I'm sure you guys already know my story. But I just didn't want her to go through the same. I guess that's why we're trying so hard for her now :D

Anyway, looking at the circumstances, I think it's still kinda productive this week.

My PC currently rendering, I still got 48 renders on my queue and this might be done in like... I honestly don't know, lol. Let's hope it take too long. Also added 4 sfx and 1 song into some of the scene. Man, I really want to push late August/September. Well, reaaaally ambitious, I know... But, we'll see! ₍₍⚞(˶˃ ᵕ ˂˶)⚟⁾⁾

Working on game render for this chapter 3 make me realize that I may be choosing the wrong asset for the girls hair. Especially the one that Rosie and Yola used. With Rosie it looks really great on her, well that's why I choose it in the first place, but that thing is a dforce hair and HEAVY AF, like, it's super laggy when it comes to posing and simulating it.

Other girls are also having a problem like Yola, her hair looks good but it's just stiff. There's barely any morph to pose it with, so when it comes to movement her hair gonna look like she use a bottle of hair spray. Angela also have this kind of problem, but hers is not as bad when it comes to morph, her problem is that for some reason the materials of her hair looks a bit 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 than the others. Can even appear a bit low res sometimes. There's so much crap going on I think it's best for me to find some alternative assets. I maybe still gonna use them as their original style, but for game renders, we're gonna see some more variations.

Speaking of Angela... The milf lovers are taking the W this time. I didn't expect her to win the last community special render vote, so congratulations for all Angela lovers out there!

I'll have to apologize, I got pilled up in the game render things. Buuuuuuuuuut, I finally get it done! Hope you guys like it! <3

Special thanks to Kentyrr & Npx for giving me their professional ideas when I make this renders ( ノ ^o^)ノ

Besides that... I'm sure you guys already seen the Devlog cover... And yes, I do tried Blender for the last few days! ٩(◕‿◕｡)۶

And all I can say is, it is still looks like an alien tech for me :D The reason why I finally got the courage to touch blender again is because a bro showed me a beautiful render made by Hydrafxx (Shoutout to Opily). It was Shadowheart from Baldur's Gate 3 laying on a bed. It is so great and inspired me to recreate the same type of render.

Well, of course it ain't that easy. After hours of trying to make it, I even bother a lot of people like Puggy & Pink, from how to import my characters and assets from Daz to Blender, how to do sculpt, etc... they told me everything that needs to be done but I still couldn't get it right :D

After hours of trying to get that bed deformation looks right, a light bulb appeared on top of my head. I remember Kentyrr teach me a long time a go a very smart trick on utilizing Daz's dforce. So I go back to daz, aaaaaaand, Voilà! A perfect deformation on the bed has been done!

So I ended up doing almost everything in Daz. But then again, I already went through so much bullshit on Blender, so I import the scene that I finished in Daz to Blender again, and then Pink, Batman, DD and Barra patiently walked me all the way through finishing up that render on Blender 😅

Oh, also, just fyi, lately I've been using a lot of this app called Big Bat Library Manager. Whether it be for game render or special renders, searching for assets in my PC felt much more easier with this app. It also a HUGE help for me on Blender cause apparently it works for both Daz and Blender! I can import from Daz to Blender with one click!

If you're a Dev/artist that use Daz or Blender, I highly recommend you guys to check this out. I'll just gonna leave the link here

Anyway, let me show you the render results!

What do you guys think? Well, not bad, right? Hehe boii... I honestly can't do it without their help, shoutout to every single one of them!

I ended up made more of them. Just trying to get more familiar with how Blender works. Like I said, still felt sooo alien tech. But I'm glad that now I can made a simple render out of it!

(I'll put the download link for these renders bellow.)

Few things I wanna say about Blender is that, it runs super well in my PC. I notice much less lags compared to Daz. I also can jump between saved file in almost instantly in Blender, while it took me 2 business days in Daz 😹 (It's a hyperbole, but seriously, the loading in Daz is just too freaking long!) Sculpting also much easier to be done in Blender, well I don't even know if Daz allow sculpting, I guess we can do it with mesh grabber (?) but even that is still feels heavy compared to Blender when it comes to sculpt. Disclaimer that all of this are all according to my very limited knowledge about both software. All I can understand is that both are a powerful tool with their own pros and cons.

Don't worry, I'm gonna stay with Daz. At least for the next 2 years. I'll probably use Blender here and there, but for a game render I think switching software will just gonna create more problems in the development itself. And I'm very much aware of how slow I am in terms of learning this kind of things. I bothered a lot of people with all my questions and stuff. They're really patient with me but I probably pissed them off with how slow I am, I won't even blame them if they hates me by now😅

So... yeah, don't worry y'all! I'll try to continue doing the best as I can and finish Past Tense no matter what!

And damn... This is a whole pile of YAP. I think this is all from me for now. I hope you guys like the renders. Also, don't be shy to say what you think in the comments... Or join our discord to share your opinion about it, feel free to let me know!

Thank you for being a part of Past Tense development. I hope you guys have an amazing week!

Much love <3

-Howie.

Angela community vote renders

Amanda & Yola renders