Dev Log : Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

I'm back in the final clean up stages on Chapter 2 of Behind The Curtain. When this is finished then both Chapter 1 and 2 will be available on day 1 of release. So .. we're getting closer.

One issue I've had this week is one of the characters has hair problems. Specifically - her hair caused everything to blow up.

Some hair assets aren't compatible with the new version of Daz and so when trying to clean up a few scenes this one character was making everything crash and burn. As I also needed to add the odd extra image of her to pad out the scenes she was in - this was going to be a problem.

I'd thought previously about how I'd handle a change to a character if something like this were to crop up. Whether that be changing hair or completely recasting a character for "reasons". I figured that normally I'd be making changes between chapters with a little announcement beforehand that Bob had gone for plastic surgery and we should all get used to it.

But because she was needed in a few extra images I had in mind - it would be a little hard to explain how she'd been to the hairdressers between one image and the next and just expecting the viewer to deal with it and to drop that "WTF?!?!" expression.

So I've had to "reshoot" all of her scenes with a working hairstyle which has been a right pain in the backside. Not least because a lot of them are big scenes with a lot of background characters and so having to reload each scene before changing her hair takes .. like .. forever!

And once she's had a makeover .. I can get back to adding the images I'd planned to add earlier this week! So one step forward .. 2 back. Yay!