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🕑 Added 2020-05-21 12:11:32 +0000 UTCOne good suggestion someone added was letting each of the main characters have a 'home' where you can go and interact with them. Chloe's obviously got one, as does Katie. Molly and Emily don't. Emily will have to wait for Book 2 for her home base, but there's no reason Molly couldn't get one sooner. Like Katie, she's a bit of a Gym Rat, but unlike Katie her gym has stripper poles.
Most of the Book 1 locations were done in our world, so it was quite trivial to find stock photos to use as background (Shutterstock has been my go-to for this). Sadly, there's fewer real photos of Valhalla and Camelot, so I'm having to make my own for Book 2. This provides a good case study.
Getting the actual studio together is easy enough in Daz (which has lots of interesting assets lying around). The problem was that I wanted it to be "Edinburgh". Easiest way to do that, though not necessarily the most authentic, is to add the Castle. So I grabbed some stock footage, and added it to the background, then beat it in Photoshop until it works.
One of the main advantages of doing this in 3D is that it's easy to light for different times. So I added night time version as well, though I had to darken my fake background using a 3D LUT (look up table) to get it looking night-ish.
The *big* advantage of this is that it's easier to pose character "inside" the world. Enough so that I might go back and redo the boxing gym as well, re-rendering Bella and Katie's strip scene and fight scene. But this is a constant challenge between getting better at something, and wanting to improve stuff that went before, rather than advancing the story-line.
Anyway, this opens up in the next beta build. Molly is, relatively unsurprisingly, proving better at sexting than Emily, and will be sending you some spicy footage by email, with an invite to come up and see her. I won't write any actual sex scenes until Act V, but this is where you'll find her for small random chats about life as Molly once Act V kicks off, and a few pictures of her exercising.
