Progress Report, 29/03 - 24 (Patreon)

Hello everyone and welcome to a brief progress report!

Work on all manner of things have proceeded apace this week, with the Ivy project getting a bit of attention, and also me diving into working on a Gloria model that I've wanted to sort out ever since I got my hands on it. Procedural leather textures for the boots were needed since she lacked her actual in-game textures for them, and I've had to do no small amount of fixing pertaining to normals, bizarre vertexes etc, but she's coming together rather nicely. A test render sadly revealed that her rig has some terrible issues as well, but I'll be looking at that in the near future to see if it can be resolved, so as to have her enter the gallery proper one day. It's been a very educational time working on her, regardless, which will translate to me being able to salvage or work on other models in the future.

I also did some model updates of older models in the gallery, while checking them over owing to Blender's most recent update. While I have some more models to check through, it looks like the vast majority of them have managed to make the transition smoothly to Blender 4.1, though I will as always tread carefully, so I will tentatively say that the Female Model List still is intact and up to date.

A small heads up about next week in that I will be hard pressed to get the Wallpaper sorted for next Wednesday. I've been informed by my wife today that we're getting a surprise visit by some folks from her side of the family, who arrive late on Monday and leave "before the weekend", meaning I'll have no issues delivering the Monday animation loop but the wallpaper (Wednesday) and the progress report (Friday) might suffer. I'd like to apologize ahead of time for any radio silence, but know I'll be back real quick to continue the schedule as always. For the Alley Crew I'll get the Scenario poll sorted for Thursday by scheduling it during this weekend, so no worries there. Walk ever onward in the face of adversity, folks - while there's no gold at the end of the rainbow, there is purpose to be found in the struggle.

Thank you, as always, for your continued support and for all of your kind words. Rushing off to the store to get some food before the Easter weekend hits, so cutting things short here! Hope you're doing well out there folks, and see you all Monday for the loop!

Take care of yourselves, and each other!
/DH