Bound By Night

Progress Update for Build 0.13 (Light Spoilers)

Added 2023-05-05 00:57:54 +0000 UTC

Hi all! (I feel like I need to come up with a nickname for BBN fans... if you've got a suggestion, let me know. Anyway...)

I wanted to give you an update on progress. The sex scene I dreamed up for this update is all done. It is entirely shifted-content and has some violence in it as well (consensual, but still very rough) so it may not be to everyone's taste, but I think for some fans, it's going to be a very exciting sequence to see. It is, however, also along the "None of the Above"-path, so to see it, you'll have to be on a playthrough that misses out on Connor and Nick.

Now then, since finishing that, I've been struggling hardcore with a technical issue: Sweat. Seriously, for some reasons, any kind of fluid (water, blood, "seed", etc.) has consistently kicked my rear. It's just very hard to get to look right. Right now, for some renders I'm trying to get Alex to look like he's sweating, just drenched in sweat. And I have tried different assets in the software, I've tried doing custom work in Photoshop, and it just hasn't been turning out very well. Here are a couple of examples.

Here is a shot of Alex completely "dry":

And here's one with me trying to make him look sweaty, using a full-body wet setting in the rendering software, with wet drops applied in Photoshop:

And here's Alex from another angle when I tried to apply sweat drops in the rendering software (it just looks like inky smudge marks):

So, for now, I'm going with the "dry look" in the first shot, and proceeding with working on renders for the rest of the update. This has well and truly kicked my rear end and I'm not sure how I'm going to resolve it, but maybe that will come to me in the following weeks while I work on the rest of the renders.

In the meantime, here's a final render from the sex scene. I've blurred the heck out of the background to keep it SFW, but I was really happy with Alex's expression here. I will let you read into it whatever you like.