Development Update - April
Added 2024-04-20 16:18:04 +0000 UTCHey people,
Work on Realm 3 has been coming along nicely. We're working with Luceian to get him up to speed on the workflow, and he's currently working on lighting the next main story update.
We'll share some previews throughout this post, but please note the lighting and camera position aren't final on the images. They're to tease some of the upcoming content :)
Unfortunately, we won't release a new update during this month due to what we're planning for the next couple of releases. But we're excited about what's coming.
As many of you likely know (we've been talking about them since we first launched Realm 1), Realm 3 will introduce character side paths. These are optional extra character stories in-game that will further your relationship with numerous characters. These side paths can lead to impacts within the main story and variations in the game's ending.
In our initial outline for Realm 3, Update 5 (the next one), we planned to launch "Part 1" of all character side paths. Due to the sheer number of side paths and variations within some of them, this is a massive undertaking. We mentioned in our first post this month that the side paths will now be posed in Blender rather than Daz, and this has allowed more flexibility while Tae still poses the main story.
We considered releasing the next main story update and coming back to the side paths later, but we're going to see if we can stick to our original plan and release the side paths next.
Spring is posing the side paths, Tae has already posed the next main story update, and Luceian is currently working on lighting this. Shoe_Lac3 will soon begin working on the side path lighting. So things are moving, and we're incredibly excited to share the side paths with you.
Autmn3 is in a great position with animations, too, and we've shared a couple of work-in-progress previews below.
We'll keep you all posted on how things progress.
Thanks so much for your continued support!
