CH05 Status Update #34 (Patreon)

Hello, everybody!

This week we continued working on the spicy scenes. Blender has been in heavy use throughout the week for that extra oomph, and we like to think we're getting better at using Blender as well. Only time will tell! One thing that's been a bit frustrating is that Daz3D (the main rendering program used to create Summer Heat) locks high resolution imports for their own published artists only, and common peons such as ourselves must make do with base resolution morphs. It's only a minor inconvenience for now, but definitely something we'll look into solving in the future... somehow.

That being said, a bunch of morphs were created this week. For clothing, characters and breasts mostly. We've also learned some new tricks for animation that we're excited to try out more. We'll see if we get to make use of it in CH05, or specifically, if the rendering times allow us to.

We also spent some time on coding and SFX, which feels like a never-ending process at this point, mostly due to the size of the chapter. Luckily there's two of us and we work on multiple tasks at the same time, which means everything progresses smoothly and there are no nasty surprises for us to stumble upon later!

Last week's hot topic

Last week we talked about our struggle with the size of CH05 and told you the options we were considering. We were quite relieved that Option A was very favored among commenters on Patreon and elsewhere. It was our preferred option as well, despite how we've been feeling about it lately, and we're just happy that you agree.

Doing big releases wasn't our plan in the start, nor was it after the release of CH04, but at some point CH05 just became one big son of a bitch. At least by our definition! Speaking of size, we also spent some time working on the script for CH06 this week. This time we're making sure that it stays at a comfortable size... it'll be a medium son of a bitch, at most. And in this case, size does matter.

Other news

CH05 will introduce a couple of remaining characters that have supporting roles in Summer Heat, specifically the story that takes place at Club Freya. Some characters you already know will also be returning. There will be a preview of some of these girls this weekend. Maybe even two!

Cheers,

Robison & Npx