DreamGamess

Chapter 3 - DevLog 8 (rework)

Added 2023-12-15 14:04:21 +0000 UTC

Hi! How are u?

When I said in my last devlog that week was though, I had no idea what's coming. This one was even worse, but the worst part is behind me.

Already over the weekend, I managed to completely finish the scene with Lily in the hospital and her flashback (render and postwork as well). I remember that this part of Chapter 1 was pretty problematic because of the videos that were there. I don't want to make it worse again, so I decided not to do it as a video this time. There will only be images.

The writing for Chapter 1 is also completely finished. Only the creative part remains.

On Monday, I started working on the scene of Lily, Martin, MC, Sam, and Olivia at the lake (flashback), and at the same time, I wanted to immediately move to the scene with Olivia and Sam, in which we return to the present. Yeah, I could have wanted to, but the reality was a little different. During that time, I probably already forgot, but it's complicated to create young characters from older ones. This was the worst thing I've ever done, and I hope it's the last because it took me a whole week, and when it comes to creating those scenes, I'm not going to lie—not much happened. This slowed me down quite a bit. I counted on the fact that by this time, at least the scene where they are like children would be finished, but not at all. It makes me angry, but at the same time, I don't want to get angry or stressed because then things will be even worse.

I'm not completely satisfied with the fact that I didn't manage to achieve the result I expected, but it's definitely better than it was before. Here are two images for comparison. It may still change visually, so don't consider it a 100% result.

Old (younger) Samantha

New (younger) Samantha

Finally, there is one last thing that I was quite disappointed about. Even though it wasn't planned at all, I was forced to change Kimi a little more.

I don't know what happened, and I feel like this error came after Daz Studio was updated, but I sure didn't notice it before. As I rendered a few scenes with Kimi, I noticed that her hair had some weird black texture to it. At first, I thought that they were "artifacts" that appear quite often and that every creator has already met them, but no, that was not their case. Basically, I couldn't even figure out why it was happening and what it was until I finally removed it after a few hours because it was starting to depress me. However, maybe the new Kimi looks a little better than before, but it's still a change I didn't plan for.

The first image shows the problem I'm talking about; the second image is the new version of Kimi.

The problem