Dev Log Ep3 Week 6: I Have a Certain Set of Skills
Last dev log of 2025, damn. It has been quite a year, and I have so much more planned for next year. I hope everyone got what they wanted from Santa, and I am wishing you all a prosperous new year. With the mushy stuff out of the way, let’s get down to business.
TLDR: I did stuff, some in Blender and some in DAZ.
Blender
Let’s start here. I got two new animations rendered out this week, fully scored with music and sound effects, and they are sitting in the game build as we speak. That alone feels pretty solid, and it brings the total number of animations for this episode up to five.
One of these animations was a bit of a nightmare to render thanks to adding fur to Zoe’s dog. That process completely messed with the render pipeline for a while, but after some guidance from Nuii Pointer, I managed to get it sorted. Thanks again for talking me off the ledge, buddy.
I also set up an animation picker for Zoe. This is going to be a huge help moving forward, as it lets me store important expressions and mouth poses for animation, while also giving me faster access to the bones I need in a scene. This is similar to what professional animation studios use, and it was a piece of advice from Puggy that really paid off in terms of speeding up my Blender workflow.
DAZ
I completed 100 still renders for the game this week, bringing the total renders for Episode 3 to 360 so far. I am hoping to push that past 400 before the new year. I know that does not leave me much time, but I would really like to hit that milestone within the first month.
I also created the exterior of the phone booth. This turned into a bit of a mission, because as usual, I was not satisfied with any of the off the shelf solutions I could find. I ended up getting creative by smashing assets together, retexturing parts, and adding or removing geometry where needed. The end result is very close to what I had pictured in my head. While it is probably a lot of effort for what amounts to an establishing shot and a few exterior renders, it reflects how important it is to me that the world of Moonlight feels alive and cohesive.
I do not really know what else to ramble about this week. As always, I am incredibly grateful for everyone’s support and the kind words that keep me moving forward.
Cheers,
Bat
Comments (12)
Hope you have a great New Year bud 👍 😀
You too mate
A great year and a great ride it has been Bat, and I am sure 2026 will be even better for Moonlight. Enjoy whatever you plan to do in the next 2 days. Happy New Year and look forward to the next update.
Happy new year bud
Yeah Bat you are doing some fantastic work gonna wish you and the family a fantastic 2026
Thanks mate, happy new year
Fantastic job as always, Bat :D Wishing you too a fantastic 2026 🫶
Gonna need my lock in buddy again next year Rann. Happy new year bud
GOOD TUESDAY SUPER MORNING 🌛🌃, BAT AND EVERYONE 🌆. It's 6:46 am… Dawn hasn't even broken yet 😅; I couldn't sleep and ended up staying up the whole night. That's what I get for drinking caffeine after quitting cold turkey for years 🤣. Just got done leaving a comment on Tako's post and was about to try my luck with sleeping 😅. I hope everyone enjoyed and had a fantastic Christmas 🎁🎄🎅☃️❄️!!! My family and I went to eat some Korean hot pot/BBQ for Christmas… so much protein 😫… $330, it cost me 😱... I probably would have been better off cooking something at home 😭. That was the alternate 😅, but I was too DAMN lazy. Would have cost me less and saved me some 💰🤣. Soooo… it didn't go greatly for my wallet 😅. These back-to-back holidays—Halloween (Oct 🎃👻), Thanksgiving (Nov 🦃), Christmas (Dec 🎁🎄), and New Year (Jan 🎆🎇)—will always be financial black holes for me 🤣. Now on to the post. Nice on the animations! And good work, Nuii 😁👍🏻! "Woo! Fur on a dog… ambitious 😋!" "Puggy… what a legend 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻!!!" "360… nice… I think you can easily hit that milestone 🎯! Lol… my boy… Bat smash… and recreate 😛. So unique and ambitious ✊🏻🔥! Always here for you (on Patreon) ✌🏻😁! Nice behind the scene look 😛! As always, thanks for the Dev Log, Bat! Keep on keeping on 😉!!! ALWAYS EXCITED AND EAGERLY WAITING FOR YOUR GAMES AND READING YOUR POSTS 🙌🏻🔥!!! Love and appreciate everything! You ❤️, your ladies 😍, your posts 🥰, your previews/renders 😘, and your game ❤️! Always make my days better 🌈! Thank you, everyone, always, for being in my life and being a part of my weekly routine 😉! Happy wishes to everyone 🎉! Stay safe, stay blessed, and stay in PERFECT health, beautiful people! And don't forget to stay hydrated! And you're never alone ❤️🫶🏻!!! OUR AVNS AND OUR DEVS CONNECTS US ALL 🤗!!! Have an amazing and beautiful week! I'll catch you all—ON THE NEXT ONE… as we move into the New Year, 2026 ✌🏻😁!!! Enjoy the back-to-back Holidays, Bat, and everyone!!! See you all in the New Year 🥳🙌🏻!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR 🎁🎄❄️☃️🎅/🎇🎆🧨🎉!!! (Still back-to-back 😂) I'll try my luck with sleep now 😅. I GOT TO GET SOME SLEEP, MAN 🤪!!! LOOK AT IT 🛏!!! IT'S EMPTY 🤣.
Wow, lol, $330. I know eating out is so expensive now but that is A LOT for K BBQ and hotpot. Seriously, hotpot is probably the worst food in terms of value to eat out. You can just buy the pot, meats/veg/seafood and make your own sauce at home. 🤑 Still, hope it was good. 😋😋
Great work Bat, with this and all year round pretty much. Hope you not gonna go more mental that you already are in the next one 😂 You doing good stuff in Blender and in DAZ.
Cheers bud, I got you guys to keep me sane.