Just a bit of an update

So, I'm sure you've all seen my public post about the game. What I didn't say there, because it's not certain at all, is that I may continue to add the occasional scene to Eros Academy even after I move on. As something of a long-term side project instead of my major focus. MAYBE. And only if there ends up being enough people that would like that. I'm still tossing around quite a few thoughts, like making a monthly extras poll for future patrons (whom hopefully will include you guys!) that would include adding a new scene or two to Eros as an option. Anyway, that's all pretty up in the air at the moment, and I had a few other things I wanted to address.

The image I used for the post is the first one. So...I really hate what the lighting did to Naomi's hair. Sadly, I wrestled with the light settings for a good two dozen re-renders across multiple images in the update so far. Movie theaters are SUPPOSED to be dark while there is a movie playing...and at the same time, the players kinda need to see what's going on. Worse, the way Daz3d works (at least in my inexpert hands) the lower the lighting levels, the more artifacts and errors tend to creep into the images. I've been forced to render most of the theater scenes at four times the normal resolution just to eliminate some of the graphical glitches. This is why I'm currently crawling along much more slowly than I wanted. I'm at roughly 20 renders at the moment, which is pretty damn slow for the amount of time I've put in. Hopefully, the other render locations for the update shouldn't have this issue, once I get past those in the theater itself.

My current estimate for the next update is Mid-December.

I originally wanted to hit a first-week of December update, but the slow down from the rendering/lighting issues is probably going to make that impossible. 

This Month's $5+ Reward

Jaylee is writing another short! Unfortunately, it's getting harder to come up with ideas that aren't essentially repeats on themes, and that's something both she and I always wanted to avoid with the Eros Academy series. We've been batting ideas around for a week and only just found one she thinks will work. She promised to get a start on it tomorrow. If everything works out well, it should easily be done on time. If it proves to be one of our occasional false starts...well, that's always a bit of a risk. 

Game Concepts

I wasn't fibbing when I said in the public post that I have a number of ideas for new games! I actually have 5 currently mildly fleshed out, though my notes on the ideas are disorganized scribblings at the moment. I'm intending to write up decent descriptions of the idea and post them for Patrons sometime soon, likely before the end of the month. Eventually, in the likely event that I do end up moving on from Eros Academy as my main focus, I'll be putting up both Patron and Public polls to see which idea people like the most. (With Patron votes having more weight, obviously).