Dev Diary, February 9th, 2024 (Patreon)

I was going to take last weekend off, but since I was excited to start working on this episode, I decided to hit the ground running.

There's a new free-roam environment in the next chapter, and I want it to work as a hub (kind of like the hotel did) where you seek out who/where you want to go/spend time with. But this being a party, I wanted an environment that keeps changing as you go along, where people are, what choices you've made, how much alcohol the people have consumed, and the mood of the different girls. So in order to be able to properly plan out the events that happen in it, I decided to build and render the actual 'empty' free roam first.

I also built the Penthouse floor for the hotel, this time utilizing Blender a lot more to shape the environment. And with a few tips and very useful Blender shortcuts shown to me by Wibble, I had a blast doing so.

With those two environments completed, it's much easier to script the events of the new episode. It also means I've started the render marathon with 106 completed renders.

While I did that, I also moved my 3D library to my NAS drive. In short, that means I now have access to my library from any computer and it should be a huge time-saver if I have some sort of crash, buy a new computer, or other event that would have made me download and install everything from scratch. Because, fun fact, my library counts 1.5 million files and 1TB of data and took 26 hours to copy over.

Lastly, I went on a shopping spree and picked up more than 100 new assets - clothing and locations.

Looking at last week's poll, we have M/F romance as a clear winner - you romantic lot, you. :) It was probably a mistake of mine to include the M/F Romantic option in the poll, as those are already defined by the story and decided upon, but this being a party, it could certainly lead to some other interesting M/F/F(/F) lewd matchups/situations as well. I'll be back with that poll soon.

For this week, we have a cosmetic poll. Sea's party outfit. Happy voting, enjoy the weekend, and stay safe out there.

// Drifty