Dev Update #15

Hello Patrons!

Sorry for not posting an update sooner.  Lots of things have happened and I wanted to finish the scene I was on before I posted an update. I've hit a few set back when it comes to Ripples development and had to take a little bit of time off and got a little behind. If you frequent the Discord you may have heard some of the things that have happened, but I've been working hard on Ripples ever since.  If you don't want to hear about the personal things in my life and the reason for some of the setbacks and want to hear about Ripples progress, skip to the next paragraph. Okay, first off I got my second covid shot and it kicked my ass! It put me down for like 5 days or something and was feeling on and off days after that. So between the first and second shot, I wasn't able to work on Ripples for a week and a half or something like that. Feeling better now and not flu sick anymore. The second thing is my god damn neck!  I've had more x-rays and MRIs and they have come to the conclusion I have scoliosis... smh. Which has cause stenosis and arthritis in my neck and is the reason I get frequent headaches and other symptoms. This is something I never knew I had or how long I've had it. You wouldn't notice it by looking at me. I would have to tell you and you would have to look really close to notice it, but it's there and causing problems. So one of the things they wanted to try was a steroid injection directly into my neck, into the spine between two bones in the neck to try and get the inflammation down, or something like that. Clear some space for my nerves and stuff. I got that done and that made me feel like crap for a few days and couldn't work on Ripples during that time. They told me not to sit at the computer all day afterwards. I did feel a little better after a few days because it takes a few days for the steroids to kick in.  I also have to do physical therapy and a bunch of other stuff, but now I know exactly what is going on, I should be able to take action and make things better. Anyways, I'm sure you guys didn't come here to hear about my neck, but I want to be transparent and let you guys know what's been going on.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot. I was able to find an RTX 3080 brand new. I traded it for my 3070 plus cash and now I got in my PC right now and she is running great! Animation capturing and Premiere work is so much faster now.  

On the Ripples sides of things, I've been getting a bunch done since my days off and one of the scenes I just finished is definitely the best h-scene I have ever done! More build-up, more foreplay, more positions, more angles, and tons of animations. Really good animations at that. I'm starting to get pretty good at them I would say.  So I have two large scenes and one small scene left to do and then it goes to proofreading and testing. The current image count is around 800 and the animation count is 78. I know that's a lot of animations, I didn't expect to have that many animations, but there are more h-scenes in this update than the last. Lots of spicy content! Which, is also why the image count isn't as high as it normally would be because the animations took over so much of those scenes that I didn't need that images.  So hopefully you guys don't have to wait too much longer for the next update.  I feel this is going to be a really good update.  

I hope you are doing well and not too bored from waiting so long, but the next update will be worth it. Have a good one, guys!

-Jestur