Working... With a Caveat.

Alright, good news first: the Control Rig works. That means I don’t have to redo all the clothing setups, which just saved me two full weeks of brutal rework. Huge win.

But of course—because it’s game dev—there’s a catch. A bunch, actually.

The rig’s missing some key stuff: no heel or toe controls, no finger IK, and the body control doesn’t rotate. So I’ve been deep in the weeds for the last 8 hours just adding those controller nodes—not even wiring them up yet. Just the prep work. I did get a bunch of core functions built, so we’re close to making it usable.

Technically I could animate without these extras… but it would be hell later. So I'm going to suck it up and do it right now. Get it built clean, now, and avoid pain later.

Anyway, it’s 4AM and my brain is mush, but today was productive as hell. I made up the lost time from last week and I’m back on track. Actually, better—because skipping the clothing rework puts us ahead.

Side rant.
I played a handful of other Unreal adult games this morning (yes, from F95, and no, I’m not naming names). Some were solid. But most? Woof.

We're talking AI voices that made my ears bleed, animations that looked like marionette puppets having seizures, characters with dead fish eyes and plastic skin, stories so half-assed they felt autogenerated, and frame rates that dipped into the teens—on my RTX 2080, in tiny levels with barely any props.

I’m not trying to trash on other devs just to feel better about my work—but damn, it made me realize how much effort I’m putting into every detail. I do care. I do give a shit about quality. And it shows.

Unreal dev is hard. Really fucking hard. But I’d rather take my time and ship something great than rush out garbage with tits slapped on it.

Thanks for sticking with me.