Check In 08/28/2026

Hello all hope this update finds you well. No exciting intro today so we'll get right into the weeds.

Solid progress this week, as far as these things go. You may recall last week I mentioned that in the interest of efficiency I thought it would be smarter to reverse order and start with the larger ending scenes of the second half and work inward. So far it seems to have been the smarter idea, still feels a bit odd, but I'll take feeling odd now, over feeling stressed and overwhelmed later.

So the scene I'm currently working on is by far the larges of the late update scenes. It stars (possibly) three characters with several major branches. A branch with all three characters, a romantic and platonic version for each, a path with only two of said characters with a romantic and platonic for each as well. Each branch also has some smaller sub-branches as well depending on previous choices. This leads to an interesting dev challenge in finding ways to make the scenes feel unique and fun to find the variants in, but also how to most efficiently "cheat". In other words in an effort to be more efficient with time and resources finding places where you can use the same renders among the different paths. This leads to some different approaches to framing a shot. If, for example, one character is sitting in a specific spot but in an alternate path somebody is sitting to their right, how can you finagle the camera on occasion to avoid showing that right side, while staying consistent with the scene? This could allow you to be able to use said renders elsewhere if needed. This can become really problematic if the dev was stupid enough to do something like have characters in different outfits for different scene variants (Though I wouldn't know anybody who was dumb enough to do that ...) Fortunately this time outfit consistency is included so really it's just a matter of framing and composition, plus a few Daz tricks. Once the update is out I think it might be fun to go through the scene on stream and give a bit of a behind the scenes look for those who are curious about what it looks like behind the curtain.

Anyway aside from that just cracking out a bit of animation each night when stills are finished up, no rambly ass method to that madness.

That's the info for the week, before I go some quick housekeeping, moving weekly post dates again, Check ins will be Fridays and Blue Belt Exclusive stuff Mondays. This will most likely swap back in the future, but just fits my current schedule best atm.

Thank you for your support and I hope you have a great weekend.

Sláinte