May Progress Update 1 (Patreon)

Renders for the new update stuff are "done".  There'll definitely be some things I find to touch up during the polish phase, but I don't expect to add more than a handful of new ones during that.  Total count is up to 1767.  For reference the current counts for the other parts are: 1844 for Chapter/Part One, 1797 for Part Two, and 1449 for Part Three.  Branching was a large reason why the count is significantly higher than the previous update, and I imagine that'll continue sporadically in future updates.

Updated a good amount of the renders from the early part of the update, as the hair shaders defaulted on three of the ladies while updating them for the ball and I didn't notice straight off.  One of the many wonderful "quirks" of this particular dev environment.

Music/sound is next, and I did about a quarter of that early on before I dropped the scene-by-scene approach to focus on the renders.

After that comes various coding tasks, then polish, and testing and extra tasking the last bit before release.  I plan on one more progress update and skip the usual window for the one after that in lieu of the release.  Which means early-mid June for the Master release and public fifteen days later, which I expect will still be in June (barring any notable interruptions/setbacks).  I'll make a post with the dates a couple days before the Master release, as usual.

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I'm very happy with how the visuals have turned out for the update.  Been a bit of challenge, thanks in large part to those "quirks" I mentioned above.  End result is nice, though.  Definitely prettier than the previous parts.

Testing and extra tasking will take longer than previous updates since I'll be adding some of those new scenes mentioned in the previous update.  I'll probably push a test version out for the new content while I work on the extra tasking, and then push out another after the extra tasking and first-phase testing fixes/adjustments are done.

Thanks for the support and stay safe!