[Episode Gacrux] Progress Update IX (Patreon)

Greetings,

it was a frustrating week. I could only do a little on the render front. I set up new scenes and did a few renders but than the problems started, or let's say existing problems become so annoying I wanted to update the render plugin. Problems were changes on materials weren't saved or have been reset on loading the next day. This caused differences in lightning between renders which always coast time to fix and I had some more issues with clothing simulations not saved correctly or get lost. 

Well, like I said I thought updating was a good idea in case as I was already quite a few updates behind. However, things turned worse. The plugin has a new material system which apparently amplifies my problems by replacing materials with auto-created once, linking materials to wrong objects and even causes more and more crashes. I've spent most of my time this week trying to get things fixed. I tried to roll-back but I guess not everything is rollback-able. I tried to find workarounds which just took so much time. I tried to recreate the entire scene multiple times and I still haven't fixed it. So I'm trying a new approach at the moment... not closing the application until I'm finished with the scene... which will be a bit problematic because it's a fucking long scene.

I opened a bug ticket but with the current holidays where developers tend to take a short vacation I'm not sure how fast I'll get a response.

Writing

I'm finished with the current draft and will hand it over today. I rewrote most of the end of the update because I wasn't satisfied with the first version. In the first version, without spoiling, I had another 'kind of' porn / porn-watching scene planed but it didn't felt really right. The porn-scene may find it's way in the game at a later point. It would have been a nice opportunity to tackle some more fetishes but the new version maybe does so as well. Who knows :)Anyway, sorry for the slow progress at the moment. I'm really trying to get things right. (A working application would be helpful tho...)

Current status

~ 285 rendered and edited images

- 1 High-res vertical scroll image

- writing done

~ 25% scripted