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🕑 Added 2023-12-21 11:26:42 +0000 UTCAlright! I'm actually on time for my usual report cycle (if I can even call it that) of progress reports for once! Pretty much all good news, too, so I'll just jump right in.
Haven's Port
Renders are finished! Barring the inevitable one or two I'll realize I forgot, at least. That pretty much always happens when I'm actually doing the writing/programming. Even as it stands, though, I'm happy with the result. Eighteen scenes, 97 renders. That's...honestly pretty darn close to a full scale Haven's Port build despite the limits the holiday's impose. While the last two Haven's Port builds were way oversized, the typical ones before those usually averaged around 105-115 renders.
So, just shy of that, plus the work I'm intending to do in enhancing some of the existing renders? Yeah, I'm happy with the result, and hopefully everyone else will be as well. I should probably regret that I didn't manage to add new Centaur scenes...but I'd be lying if I said that. Not because I have a single thing against them, mind you. It's just that the Centaur Body asset is a serious pain to work with. If I'd had the time, I'd have done it anyway, mind you. But I can't claim I'm overly sad I ran out of time and I didn't have to wrestle with them again...
Anyway, I think the set of scenes being added are a nice collection that will do a good job of rounding out several areas and content types. If you do the math, you'll also note that obviously not all of these scenes are super short or anything. They may be 'general' scenes, but the longest is actually 7 renders, I think. With several others being 6. So those 18 scenes are actually a pretty good chunk of content. I'll be doing all the post-processing on the renders over the next day or two...but then I'll break for the Holiday's. I likely won't start the writing/coding until the 26th. That might make things a bit tight. But it is what it is.
Short Story
I just finished up the draft for the short story before I started on this progress report. I'll be doing the editing pass on it either tonight or early tomorrow. It's likely to be released early morning on the 22nd.
Mixed Media Short
The renders are all done and fully post processed for the next entry of Xanadu Emporium. It's a touch on the shorter side, but that actually has nothing to do with time crunch. I was, in fact, actually done earlier than anticipated. I simply hit the natural end point of Part 4, and stretching it out any farther would have been very artificial feeling. I think people will like it regardless, and it's not much shorter than usual. 17 entirely new renders and 1 reused one from a previous entry.
As I only have the writing/editing left to do, I hope to have this out before I break for the holiday. That would be ideal, as it would leave just the Haven's Port release to do after Christmas. I'm not 100% sure I'll be able to pull that off, though, as I also have some writing I need to do for the fanfiction Patreon. Not too much, I'm pretty on top of that too, but enough that getting it all done in the right order and before the 24th might be a bit much. We'll see :-).
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That's all for now folks! The next post should be the second Short Story in a day or so...
