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It's the overexcited midweek update!
I know, I know. I don't post for ages and then I end up being a pest - but, this is exciting! Well I thought so, at any rate. :)So! The power plant. The old original one was awful but I reworked it back in October and it was OK. Much better at any rate.Anyhoo, so I'm playing around with the new plant repair mechanics and I decided I wasn't that happy with the rejigged plant room as it ...
D Force!
Whenever I say that, I can't help but find the theme music to "He-man" pops into my head...But I digress. In moaning away at my problems last week I forgot to mention successes. And to these I would add that now I have some "oomph" in the PC I can also use D Force. And I love it.For those of you who are unfamiliar with what D Force is, it essentially allows me to get fabrics an...
Good grief! It's a weekly update!
It is indeed! Well new year, new habits and all that, no?Actually, having fouled up horribly in November by not doing updates, even if those updates would have been rather dull ("Still rendering!"), I've decided to learn my lesson and do a once a weeker regardless.Naturally, I haven't a lot to say in respect of what I've done on Chapter Two so far so instead I'll tell you w...
Remaster mission report
(aka "Just what the chuffing heck went wrong?")First off it's worth noting that the time spent October onwards wasn't just on Chapter One (thank God!). Before I even started work on One the real work went into redesigning all of the locations and reskinning all of the characters. With over twenty characters and over forty locations this took, as you can image, some time. But I want...
Chapter One remaster... is released!
Guys, sorry for the silence, I swear remaking the Vanguard to Hi-Def damned near came close to killing me.However! It is done! And it looks...lovely. I'll do a full mission report on the past month or so in a separate post in a day or so but for now please enjoy.It's four times the render size of the original (and at a smaller download size!) and now includes more paths, more game play, an...
Test renders...
In the public post I mentioned some test renders....They're not terribly well posed as they were really to see just what the new machine could do, but I thought I'd share just to show you how far I've come in the past month or so.Lt Harris in the baths...*wiggles eyebrows*
News, news, news!
Sorry for the recent batch of quietness. Partly due to RL work and partly as I didn't have anything really new to say other than....I'm working on it still. But news!TLDR version Remaster is coming along and looks super! I keep finding ways to make things look even better and so have ended up remastering some of the remasters. Stupid I know... The Vanguard interior -finally- looks decent a...
Happy Halloween :)
A tad late in the day but it's still the 31st by my clock so here's the girls in a semi-Halloween, semi-film/game montage theme. Enjoy :) There's a link at the bottom for the files themselves.(also I liked the hair so much this is now Trisha's new look - well, without the sword...)Separate public post on progress coming!(Folder for downloads here)
Almost there...
Hi hi.Just a quick note. I was hoping to get One out yesterday but I'm still missing a few renders. Having set them all to batch render over the weekend I have some 330 in the bag but I'm around 80 short. Although the majority of One's renders come out quite quickly on occasion I still find some of the more detailed ones are taking longer than I planned.During the remaster testing I di...
Thinking of a way to say thank you...
Yep...that could be the mock up of a statue/figurine...Y'see I can get my girls made into actual figures by the wonders of 3d printing.Still trying to get my head around the logistics of how to get it delivered if I went ahead with it (especially the privacy aspects from your side) but I'm intrigued by the idea of having a draw of patron names out of the hat for those who have been support...
Just watching the remasters come out...
Might be Sunday for Chapter One but more likely Mon/Tue as I need to make sure the animations run smooth and get some music for them etc. Will totes shush now until One is released. But it's close :D
Chapter Four animations
Well, Sarah seems pleased that we have them. Then again, I haven't actually told her what some of those animations might involve...Anyhoo...... I'm going to be quiet for the next few days as I and the hamster just focus on chapter completion now. However, there is one thing that I am mulling over which is, as the header says, the animations for Chapter Four.I have six adult scenes in that ...
We have animations :D
We shouldn't have of course. But we have. *is currently happier than Annie being locked into a pub overnight*Short versionBy a whole series of cheats, cuts and plain good luck in faffing with things I'm able to add high quality animations at a minimal file size. Not hugely important for One or Three but there was -that- scene in Two plus there are a whole bunch of adult scenes in Four that...
To Discord or not Discord?
I'm not a fan of it, I'll confess.Largely due to the logistics in that being a brit I suspect I'm on a totally different timezone to a lot of you, add to that the rather more "live" nature of it than, say, a forum and it could be a recipe for disaster.However, recipes for disaster are rather my stock in trade, so......do you guys want a discord channel?*Poll is open rather wide...
So you know how I can't do animations...
...we might have to change our views on that. Maybe.As some of you know I've tried animations before, both using Renpy frame by frame (which wasn't great...) and also by trying full video which damn near broke me over the file size. (a single video ani was coming out to a quarter of the existing game size).But since I'm in remastering goddess mode I thought one last try before I fully ...
Let's talk about Amanda...
One of the things I've been trying to do during the remastering is keeping the characters as much the same as possible even when giving them new detailed skins etc. On the whole I've done pretty well and you shouldn't at any point go "Who the hell is that?" with chars looking the same mid to long range, then having extra detail up close.The only one I've failed ever so slig...
Bonus pack thingyness!
Hi Hi :)So, some of you liked the arty stuff yesterday and wanted them at a larger size. On reflection I wasn't that happy with some of them and so, in addition to doing 4k versions of the better ones, have thrown a few other portraits in instead.For instance...In the little pack attached there are also a couple of safe for work phone wallpapers if you have a hankering for one.Finally, somethi...
Bonus arty things!
Just some little bonus bits and bobs. Obvs with the render hamster going flat out of late I can't do anything too special but I hope you like these anyway.
A double court martial?
Yet another little extract has fallen into our lap due to an IT error....Audio transcript from the preliminary hearing in respect to proposed courts martial of Lt C. Chadwick and C. Eng. A. Huang.Captain Masters and Commander Benson presiding.Cdr Benson: "Chief, thank you coming today. If you'd take a seat."C.Eng Huang: "Sir, thank you Sir. Er, could I ask..."Capt Masters: "...
Welcome to Ophion...
Alright, yes, I know. You've already been there :) But look at it now!No more horridness and plain backgrounds.*is trying!*
Working hard...
...no really! :)*to be honest I just used that title as I wanted an excuse to use that render*But actually I have been. All of the settings have been remastered and they look glorious compared to what we had before.Not only that but most of the girls have been re-skinned which took an age. Oh! On that, don't worry. They look exactly the same from mid and long distance (one of the reasons why i...
Pictures or it didn't happen....
It happened :)
Ever wondered what all those charges against Chris were about?
Due to a terrible security blunder it seems one of them has to come to light....Submission from Lt. C. Chadwick to the board of inquiry on the Intrepid following her vessels failure to meet it's planned rendezvous for docking after shore leave on Earth....Sirs,There follows my submission in respect of the charges brought before me in advance of the board of inquiry scheduled for my return to t...
A peek at how it impacts on Chapter Four
So everything is more naturally lit for a start with the unified colour scheme running through most of the base. The bottle is military issue plastic btw hence why it looks a little dull :)Sarah may not be entirely sober....
Bored Pilot bonus issue
Hi Hi!With my compliments, please find attached the download file for issue 132 of Bored Pilot due to the delay in releasing Four because of the remaster work.The download contains both a PDF for ease and the original PNG for quality.I do hope you enjoy it.Bored Pilot download$10 tier patrons and above, we'll be having a fresh poll for the BP to come out with Four.Notty
News, news, news!
Hi hi!Apologies for a little bit of quiet of late but I've been working on the remaster side of things. I know I can be quite chatty but there were a few things I hadn't quite made my mind up on and rather than ramble on in my unusual way I wanted to be able to give you solid news on all of this.RemasteringFirstly, the remaster is looking gorgeous - well, compared to what we had for sure. ...
News, news and more news!
I have some news! In case you haven't gathered :)General gubbinsSo I'm still rendering away, which I'm sorry about, but it is looking good. Like really good. I don't why it's all suddenly clicking but every render I seem to touch is just so much better than anything I've done before. It's not as though I've upgraded anything either. Probs some more experience and Ja...
Important update
Hi hi,I've been racing away to try and get all the renders in for Chapter Four all the way down to the wire but I'm afraid I'm still short. I've got over 600 renders in the bag but I still need more.What's done -is- good. Indeed it's probs the best looking chapter so far......but that doesn't make a complete game of course.Chapter Four is bigger than Three by some margi...
