Another Step Closer to 0.6.2.5 (Patreon)

Good afternoon,

Another week has flown by, and I wanted to give you a quick summary of what I've been working on.

As I mentioned last week, my main focus this week has been creating pregnancy animations for Tia, along with individual images for transition scenes. I decided to start with the Orc Queen route since that was the part I'd been working on most recently, so all the remaining tasks were still fresh in my mind.

I've now created alternate animations for both scenes, the one in the throne room and the one in bed. I also updated Tia's throne room animation to use her new outfit (for both normal and pregnant), which I unfortunately didn't have time to do in the previous update. These animations weren't exactly easy to make. Anything involving orcs tends to be a bit more complicated. But I'm finally done with that part.

After finishing those animations, I moved on to the campfire animations. Those have also been fairly challenging, but I'm making steady progress one step at a time, and I'm hoping to get a lot more done on them today. If everything goes well, I should finish those sometime next week. After that, the final animation work will be the scenes with Tia in the MC's hut. Once those are finished, I can finally move on to writing the dialogue and implementing the related events.Another thing I did this week was of course bugfixing, thank you again for the reports, I think I did the last update to the Releasepost on Wednesday in case you missed it.

The preparation and material gathering (as I call it) is always the most time-consuming part of the whole process. Once all the assets are finished, the rest usually comes together much more quickly. Though by now, you probably already know that's usually how my development process goes.

The pregnancy animations have also turned out to be more difficult than expected because Tia's model was never originally designed to have a large pregnant belly (it looked really bad). That means I have to rely on quite a lot of edits to the images to make everything fit together naturally and look the way both you and I imagine it should. As always, I'm only satisfied once the result looks right, even if that means spending considerably more time on each animation.

I'd love to say that I'll have the next milestone, update 0.6.2.5, finished by next Friday, but I think that would still be a bit too optimistic. What I do hope is that I'll be much further along by then and that the finish line will finally be within sight.For now I will continue to work a little longer and wish you all a nice weekend!