Dev Log : Chapter 3 is .. "done"

Yes, you read that right .. Chapter 3 is finished in the "everything that was planned to be done has now been finished, completed, packaged up and ... "

Well, can nearly finish that sentence.

As mentioned in the last post I had an issue with a few animations because Master Bug Discoverer found an issue with the Daz timeline which I reported. That kicked my end in a little bit .. and the bug still exists and needs to be worked around and my fix only seemed to work in certain circumstances .. but, I managed to get things done.

One animation gave a little trouble for me. I'd actually planned to use one that I'd found on the Interweb. Normally, I don't do this and do my own animations despite it being .. let's be kind .. not my strongest discipline. But I'd come across one that seemed to fit what I had in mind perfectly .. so I set up a scene leading up to that highly romantic moment only to find that it didn't quite do what i wanted to do .. it did in the technical "stick that in there and waggle your hips about" sense .. but I'd set the scene up to move to a certain point only to find that upon deeper inspection the animation did something in the other direction.

That put the Kyber on things for a couple of days while I worked out what to do about it and ultimately had to bite the bullet and pull out my Walt Disney skills again .. but it got done in the end.

All that's left to do now is something that's .. I'll be honest, is a bit boring. It's not the most difficult bits but it's not something that get's the heart beating and wants you to jump out of bed raring to go.

It's going through the chapter time after time after time. Reading dialogue .. "that doesn't sound right" .. tweaking it .. coming back to it another day .. tweaking again if needed .. Or editing the way a scene ends because " .. it ends a bit abruptly" .. or rewriting certain segments of dialogue so it explains something a bit clearly .. Etc etc

Lots of "busy" work .. things that individually might only take 15 - 20 minutes each to do but when you think about doing it your shoulders just slump and you watch a YouTube video instead.

So at the moment I'm just working through the Chapter over and over again .. I think I'm on about my 10th playthrough now and given we're talking over 4 hours of gameplay in Chapter 3 .. that's a lot

I have actually found the odd place to add an extra render or two .. came across "Dev Text" that was left in the dialogue .. Found a serious bug in one part (when you're Hot you're Hot!) which I haven't yet solved .. rewrote a bunch of dialogue ..

And on it goes .. "Busy Work"

However .. I do have in mind a release date .. so watch this space!