Andromeda 0.5 Briefing 9


Going to get this out now, before I forget tonight.

The script for this first part of 0.5 is done. I might fine tune some dialogue, but I am not expecting any real additions to the script for this first part.

For this update I got 466 lines written, though admittedly like 200 of that was copy and pasting somethings in 4.5 to fix a "I didn't really think about a situation where you don't kiss Isabel and then chose to go off with her after saving her father." Just another reason to test play your stuff extensively and have beta testers.

Due to some issues I had this time with the Esmeralda holo, not sure why since nothing changed with the model, resulting in Daz getting stuck on "Iray (Scene Update) : Updating section objects", even let it go over night once and it still was stuck on that step, when trying to render if that character was in the scene I had to redo the character, they do not look the same because I do not recall the exact character model I used previously. At some point I will probably go back and replace the old model with the new one in existing scenes, but I don't know when that will happen since that is time taken from working on new content.

As for number of renders I have 273, if you count some that are currently still rendering as of this post and won't actually be completed until after the month ticks over to April, but that I decided to include in the March count since they started in March. A large part of that is because of me trying my hand at creating short 60 frame animations that can be looped from single frame poses, one of which if I have time I will need to rework due to me being an idiot and forgetting that Daz doesn't remove expressions when you delete keyframes.

So this resulted in a 162% increase in number of lines done, if you include the 200 some odd that were copy paste, if you don't include those it is only about a 4% increase. As for renders completed their was a 26% decrease, same reason as last time that is largely because I don't have a bunch of 100+ frame animations that were being re-rendered due having a better grasp on Daz now.

Now I do have a family situation going on, so I will likely end up going out of town for about a week sometime in April, I don't know when exactly that will be, but I will post in the Discord server when I know. This will result in me not being able to work on the game during that time, if I remember I will try to have Daz redo that one animation set I mentioned before that I wanted to redo.

Since this is mostly just rendering scenes now instead of also working on the script, I want to say that the update will possibly come out near the end of April or early May. Just depends on how quickly I can get the remaining scenes setup and rendered. I do think going forward though I am going to try and stick to smaller multipart updates that come out roughly every 4 months, instead of these larger updates that take close to year, since this is briefing 9 and the update isn't coming until late April or early May we are looking at briefing 10 possibly coming out before the update does.

No images this time, because I don't have any extras or other scenes that I want to share.