Hello,
The Dev Log is a little delayed.
Release weeks... The usual.
For the next few weeks, there's a change of plan. As many of you know, I'm preparing the Summer's Gone Chapter 5 Full release and the Steam/Epic release that comes with it.
As I said in previous Logs on SG. Reworks affect my mental health negatively. It feels like I'm standing still, even though I know I'm not.
I know the SG Rework is worth the effort. (Considering Steam, etc.) But it's still draining my energy like crazy.
I'm at the end of the SG CH5 Full release, and with that, the reworks are done once and for all.
But I need to get it done ASAP.
While I did do some WiAB in the past two weeks, I'm going to focus on SG for around 2-3 weeks, and then after the release of Season 1 SG, I will return to the usual schedule. A slightly improved schedule.
As WiAB is now on the big workstation, I can work on SG and WiAB at the same time. (Thanks to the A6000 Adas').
I think that's better than switching back and forth each day.
Anyway, 2 to 3 weeks is what I need.
There's just so much to take care of. From translating, dealing with Steam, Epic & Gog, rendering, fixing & trying to get more music, and building new environments.
I just need around two to three weeks to focus on the release.
I hope you WiAB bois will understand.
I did finish a few environments though. Two for Chapter 4 and three for Chapter 3.5.
Here are two previews from Chapter 3.5: I'll see you in around two weeks with a normal dev log again.
Sorry for the inconvenience & putting WiAB on a two-week pause. But I need to respect my mental health during the now fourth release window in 3 months. It's taking its toll.

Это всё сова на огромном глобусе.

Nami's and Bellchen's gym scenes will stay the way they are. (Except for a few Bella shower renders. Exchanging her pre-sculpt Ch2-3 model with the Chapter 4+ model. It's the first time you see her boobs, so it's important to be accurate to the Ch4+ model.)
There's one scene in Chapter 3 I had to change to keep the music & steam rating. I had to remove MC's PP in one render. (Again, this only affects Season 1. Season 2 won't be censored in any way.)
It disrupted the flow of the scene, but I couldn't locate the old Duf files. So I went out of my way and applied the German saying "Wenn schon, denn schon." which loosely translates to "Do it right or don't do it at all."
So I rebuilt the entire scene and also adjusted 95% of it. The scene didn't really need it, but it was important that she at least visibly "stared" at MC's package.
OldNewThere are like 20 renders left for the clothing scene with Bella.
After that one, it's only one small scene that is left. I'll start with postwork tomorrow & I still need to finish the Blender Intro cinematic.
Current estimations are around 1250 still images for the Full.
It's definitely worth playing through the full if you like Bella. Quite a few new scenes with her.
- Ocean

I mentioned in a previous log that I also reworked the scene with Mila where you can ask her out.
For continuity's sake, I completely reworked her Gym scene too.
OldNewThis also includes the shower scene and this legendary render:
OldNew

Hello,
So... This is supposed to be the last Dev Log for Season 1.
As always, I've created more renders than first anticipated. My estimation for the rest of Chapter 2 & small parts of Chapter 3 was 900-1000 renders.
I'm sitting comfortably at 1170 renders, and I have one more scene to do.
I started to prepare the work for the gallery. Lots of stuff has to be changed and Chapter 5 has to be added. But that's all gonna go quite smoothly.
I've started work on a little Layla Treat.
Who?
Yeh, some Bibi that hasn't gotten any screen time since Chapter 3, but will play a bigger role in S2.
The Treat isn't finished, and still a work in progress. Still, we all haven't seen her in a while.I think I'll publish the full Treat with the Chapter 5 Full release.
Tons of previews & comparisons today.
This is the last Preview Log, I will do for Season 1, so I have a few things to show.
Bella boys usually don't see this scene, but I added a little more depth to Hill's short conversation with the MC and exchanged Claire's old model with the new one.
OldNewThe old classroom. (Before I could even render the big one.)
The A6000 Ada's in action.This is a new level, even compared to the previously released Chapter 2 Classroom renders, where I could only render 3-5 people at the same time.
Being able to fill up the college, the city, and other establishments that usually feature a lot of people is gonna be possible now.
I can move away from garbage billboards in the BG, and use interactive people instead. Awesome.
And thanks to the latest Daz update, these gigantic scenes load reasonably fast (15min to 20min).