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🕑 Added 2020-04-30 12:59:53 +0000 UTCOkay, folks....I had intended to accompany this post with the first crude prototype render showing the main character of....Haven's Port! Yep, that's correct. I spent time I really didn't have over the last few days working everything out and pulled the trigger on a final decision. The truth is, that I want to work on Haven's Port, and that tipped the scales that were teetering back and forth between it and DoL:Dungeon Master Edition. I'm not going to rehash here why it was those two, that was all in the post a few days back.
So, I pulled the trigger and bought the first batch of assets I needed (around $200 worth, with another $200 worth to come over the next few days as I finalize choices). As I mentioned, I had intended to post a quick render, showing the basic figure and one of the set pieces (a pub). Unfortunately, much to my aggravation, I spent 5 hours trying to get the stupid Daz3d software to render the $^@$&% @&%@& %^!$% scene. The assets are fine, they look GREAT in the preview. But for some god-awful murder-rage-inducing reason, the $^@$# ^%@ Iray lights won't actually...light anything.
I know I had this problem back when I did the Drow test renders, but I can't remember how I eventually fixed the issue, and I spent hours I SHOULD have been working on the Story Reward for this month trying to figure it out again. Only to eventually give up when I hit a point that I REALLY need to crash and get some sleep. At the same time...I didn't feel it was right to head into next month without making it official that the next game (Replacing The Dungeon of Lewdity in the development cycle) with be Haven's Port.
Right now, I need to focus on wrapping up Chastity Quest Build 3, plus the story reward. But expect to see a post with a lot more details about Haven's Port sometime in the first few days of May. Hopefully, with a few early readers, once I get this lighting bullshit figured out. Again. Seriously, I know I fixed this once -_-.
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I also want to stick a quick notice for Chastity Quest, and a quick apology about the Story Reward.
Chastity Quest's Build 3 is in the Testing/Editing phase and I'm actually about 60% of the way through the test. It should be posted sometime tonight (hopefully before midnight...).
The Story Reward though...was totally going to be on time, before I spent 5 hours I should have been working on it, bashing my head against Daz3d's $@^@& bullshit. As it is, it's likely not going to be out until sometime on the first, possibly the second at the latest. You all know I HATE it when I am late like that, and it's even worse that it's the second month in a row for the Story Reward specifically, but this month has kinda been....overwhelming and I was never anticipating all the hours I needed to sink into sorting out Haven's Port vs DoL:Dungeon Master Edition. I'm thinking I may try to double update stories, as a proper apology this time (as in, update both of the ones that tied for first place for April), but I'm not making any promises just yet. Other than, of course, making the delay as short as possible.
