The first images of V0.12 are here! I'll be putting up a progress update in the next couple of days.

Dev Diary, 25th of September, 2020
Progress

Starting this week with the last of the render update. We're at 967 static renders and 4381 animated frames - totaling 1 minute and 43 seconds of 60fps animations.

When it comes to progress, there's still a lot of small things to do, but I'm right where I want to be at the moment.

I have 60% of a semi-huge scene to render and pose for
All the phone stuff (some nukes, phone clock, bios, etc.)
A few scenes where I expect to be replacing the music and adding more sound effects
A 21 second animation where unfortunately I will have to go in and manually correct some clipping on some of the 1400 frames.
But I should have it all ready and sent out to the testers by Sunday.

A word on estimated playtime vs branching
I did a relaxed playthrough and ended up on 60 minutes, going for one of the main routes - and that was without that last scene that is currently rendering. It might not seem like a whole lot, but all in all you will need more than one playthrough to see everything. There are more than 50 instances in Chapter 4, where what you see and experience is different based on your earlier choices going all the way to Chapter 1. Although there are only two playthroughs needed for Cece/Steph, you'll need a whole lot more if you want to see everything.

The example picture above displays just how the story might branch out depending on your choices, even if they are not your main love interest.

Next week there will be no Dev Diary due to the release of the first part of chapter 4. I still hope to see you all around somewhere then. And for those that want nothing to do with Steph going forward, I only got one thing to say - sometimes you just have to take a leap of faith. :slight_smile:

Best wishes to you all.

// Drifty

Buzzing
Hi guys, I hope you are all keeping well.

Everything is okay here.

I've been busy making some sexy scenes on a new set I created. Sometimes I can't find assets that fit what I need (or they don't exist). I end up having to mix and match lots of different things to try and get the look I want. I quite like what I came up with.

Above is the location I mentioned last week, I managed to cram about 20 characters into the background (not all in this particular render) without running out of Vram or resorting to rendering the image in sections. While the background characters don't hold up to close scrutiny they are passable when in the background and subject to blur from depth of field.

I also have to two new characters that we'll see in a bit more detail.

They are named Milly and Mandy at the moment but I'm open to suggestions.

I considered creating a scene with Professor McKenna but in the end felt my time would be better spent creating more Nikki content.

But not to completely forget her she is the subject of this week's 4k fun renders.

She must be missing the MC because she's had to get herself a new toy.

I hope you guys enjoy and that's all I have for you this week.

Thank you all as always and take care of yourselves.