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RTL chapter six postponed until next month, public preview here.

Hey again. I have had a shitty last three weeks; and have been in horrible pain for much of it. I was unable to leave my house for weeks and only now am I mostly better, but not still entirely. I tried to suck it up and get this done if possible, but that did not work at all and this is simply not going to happen right now. I have gotten about two nights sleep in the past three weeks, and I am still not totally better yet. These two things prevent me from focusing in any way when working on the scene. Despite my best efforts, I simply can’t finish this chapter this month, and there is no way to be sure when I will be able to finish it next month. I would like to finish it as soon as possible but if I force myself to do it now I might make my situation worse and the overall product would likely be crappy. These are both very bad things. I want this to be as good as I can make it with what I have, and to do that I need more time. This may all change at any time if I suddenly start sleeping again and get better faster or if things get worse somehow (again). Long story short; I have no idea when RTL chapter six will be done, (it isn’t really up to me) it may end up being next month’s main image set due to my illness/unforeseen circumstances.

Anyway, I will do the best that I can in terms of getting this done as early as possible; but in the mean time please continue to vote in the polls, they help me a lot and votes are still kind of low, I will likely replace the current polls either mid-month or whenever RTL chapter six is done if it is before that. Oh and here is the early public preview of the first scene for this upcoming set. It was going well before everything went to shit, and hopefully it will turn out great.

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July special poll result, status update

Hi. So the special poll is over and option two won out; that option being Tabitha and Salune. I will work on that next, and the other two options will be used after this one. It is nice to see the the other options got votes as well, so watch for those a bit later. Also, two new polls are up now, One asks how long you prefer your adult VNs/games to be, and the other asks which of my character bios you like best. Please note this is NOT asking which character you like best visually/physically, but from a story/background/details standpoint.

In other news I have been rather sick the past few days and have gotten nothing much done at all, especially on this project. I have no idea how long this will continue, and it may force me to push back the next main image set a bit; we shall see. I will do the best that I can but things have not been going well these last few days and due to this, I am behind already as far as my usual schedule goes. Hopefully thing will get better soon, but there is nothing I can do about this right now. Please vote in these new polls as well and I will post again once I have some progress made somewhere. (Or if it has been a week or so just to check in.)

EDIT 7/20: I finished the DA image(s) a few hours ago and finally posted them. So now I can work on the main image set if my health cooperates.

UPDATE 7/24: I have just posted the early Patreon preview image for this upcoming chapter, it will be posted here in a few days in a new post. The next chapter will almost certainly be pushed back into next month due to lost time from my illness. More on that when I post the preview publicly. Also, the current polls have been extended into mid next month; as this chapter likely won’t be done until sometime into next month and I would like as many votes in these polls as possible. (The bio one especially, please vote if you haven’t; votes are still rather low for whatever reason.)

7/8: Status update, hentai foundry issues.

Hey. I have had some real life things to work out the last few days but these things should be over sometime tomorrow. Once this is done I will make the next Patreon mini-set as well as hopefully a few new DA images. The special poll is going great so far, but more votes is always good. There is still time for everything to change, so spread the word and vote if you haven’t already!

Side note: since my deviantart account has brought in a lot of views and attention, I am trying to get my hentai foundry account working again, but am having no end of issues. I tried to make a HF account seven months ago to help promote my work; but at the time nothing I submitted was accepted, so I just deleted the account thinking I could remake it if things ever changed. (You can view everything on HF without an account, so there was no real reason to keep it.) Back then I could only trace them rejecting my stuff to an issue they seemed to have with 3d art at the time and some strange clauses in their acceptance guidelines specifically rejecting 3d art submissions that used premade content for no real reason. Since then, I have talked to a couple people who assure me that HF would work for me now and I can no longer find that clause in the guidelines; so I would like to try and use hentai foundry again but apparently I can’t.

For some reason, “deleting” your account there doesn’t actually delete anything; apparently it just locks the account and name forever. If I had know that, I never would have deleted it in the first place; I would have just sat on it and left it inactive. As far as I recall, I have never seen a site do this before; especially without any sort of account recovery system to undo it. HF allegedly has recovery systems but none of them seem to work in this instance. I have sent multiple emails to the “support” email address they have listed, since there isn’t much else I can do right now without an account; but it has been over a month and I have received no response of any kind. If anybody knows somebody who is an admin or something over on HF, can you please ask them to contact me, or ask what I can do to get my account back, or just tell them to check the support email? I realize that it is entirely possible that they got my email(s) and just don’t give a shit, but I am hoping  that is not the case.

RTL chapter five status update

Hi. I just thought I’d stop by and leave a quick update regarding my progress in the latest set. There were a bunch of weird weather problems here yesterday and multiple brown-outs prevented me from making much progress. I got much more done today, but final construction still has a day or so of work to do. The set looks like it will be finished sometime over the weekend, if I don’t go overboard again somehow.

Votes in the polls are still rather low which is weird, it would be nice if those could get some more votes before the start of next month. The poll results usually have at least some direct effect on future sets; so if you want to see more of something, votes really help that happen.

EDIT 6/26: I ended up putting more into these scenes than I initially intended again, it may be done over the weekend but will likely run into Monday/Tuesday. So after I wrote that, something went horribly wrong with the poser scene file and most of the scene got fucked up. I had to spend an hour or so trying to fix everything, and there is just no way anything else is getting done today. I would think this will definitely go into Monday now at least due to lost progress and having to fix everything.

UPDATE 6/28: Main scene construction is done, I just have to do the final renders/postwork now. I have made some extra time to make sure it gets done by the end of the month if at all possible, so it likely will be posted sometime Tuesday. This isn’t typical, but I had some awful real life issues on Fri/Sat to deal with and could make little progress, plus I lost much of the work I already did when all the figures in the scene got fucked up on Friday. Blame all the rigged tentacle figures that have hundreds of dials that can easily fuck up everything if just one gets auto-tweaked wrong. (Almost all of them had this happen on Friday.)

RTL chapter five base scene construction done.

Hey again. A quick status update; as the title indicates, today I finished the scene construction for RTL chapter five and tomorrow I will start making the actual images. I had a different plan in mind for this chapter, but decided to go with one thing that did very well in a recent poll and possibly another thing for the same reason if I have time.

On the topic of polls, nobody has really voted in the new polls that have been up for a few days now; and I have no idea why. There were close to 100 votes in the last two sets of polls, and the results help me know what people want to see, so votes would really be nice. If nobody votes, I just have to guess what people prefer and why. If you like my work and want to see it contain more of what you like, votes help do that. As I mentioned earlier, this upcoming set in particular was changed due to one or possibly two recent poll results, so it can make a direct difference. The special poll on my DA page also has very low votes if anyone wants to vote in that one too.

Anyway, the Patreon early set preview will be up in the next few days, the public early preview will likely be up over the weekend. The set itself will likely be done late next week depending on whether or not I stick to the primary plan for the set or work in the secondary plan.

EDIT 6/18: Patreon early preview posted, it will get posted here in a few days or so. According to a previous poll, most people really wanted to see this; so hopefully that is true.

6/9: Quick Status Update

Hey. Just a quick update, I have had various real life things to take care of, but tomorrow I plan to construct the Patreon mini-set for this month. I hope to have that done by the weekend (or over the weekend) so I can start construction of the main set of the month next week. In case anyone missed it the first time, I plan to have a special poll here next month; as well as a Patreon poll to decide the focus of next month’s mini-set. I am still deciding between a few options for this month’s main set, I will see which direction I end up going with it. Side note, the polls are going great so let’s keep that going. Always nice to see diversity.

RTL chapter four hopefully done tomorrow.

Hey. Quick status update, I ended up adding and redoing a bunch of crap that I shouldn’t have again. The set is about 30 images now, and I don’t think i will be able to finish all the composition/postwork today. I really like the set and don’t want to rush it out, so I am going to take an extra day or two to make it (hopefully) really nice. The final renders are all done; it’s just composition, postwork, and a bit of extra writing left to do at this point.

In other news, the current poll ends at the end of the month, so get in any last votes that may have been held back for whatever reason. The results for the poll are rather interesting, but I will discuss that early next month.

RTL chapter four previews coming soon.

Hey again, just a quick update. I have finished base construction of the scene for part four of RTL. I have tested and run through everything in advance this time, so I am hoping there will be no horrific render issues later (0_0). The Patreon preview of the set will likely be up tomorrow (maybe today but I doubt it) and the public preview will be up here a few days after that. So check back here later this week for the preview of this upcoming set!

Update 5/19: Patreon early preview posted.

May Patreon mini-set hopefully done tomorrow…

Hey again, quick update. I had some things to do last weekend but managed to kind of finish the mini-set yesterday. The problem was that when I tried to render it earlier today, no end of problems began to surface. I had used a new environment/props for the mini-set and apparently it just did not want to work with octane at all. I have spent almost four hours today trying to fix this, but I gave up fixing the old scene after two hours and just redid the entire environment for the mini-set. However then this new scene had memory problems due to my single, limited card, so a few of the images I planned to make simply won’t work. I will still have 4-5 images for the mini-set which is what it is supposed to have, but I had wanted to do more; however it just isn’t going to happen with my limited equipment. (Maybe I can revisit this in a later mini-set later on once I get better equipment.)

I just can’t finish the last few renders/postwork tonight, I hope to finish it tomorrow. I have everything fixed so there shouldn’t be any other freaky problems/further delays unless I find some way to get the other images working. So hopefully there will be a preview of this posted sometime tomorrow. Side note, the poll is looking really nice with some rather surprising results; but there is still plenty of time for things to change.

April poll review, status update, and new big poll up!

Hey. I sent out the patreon rewards yesterday, if there are any problems there please email me and let me know. In regards to last months poll, some people seem fairly interested in a VN idea, which is nice as I was planning to try that once I get the current game idea finished. (Nobody voted for the low interest options so I can only assume nobody is against the idea.) Speaking of polls, a new big poll is up now and it will be up for the rest of May!

It has been a while since I have done a big poll but now seems like a good time, now that the new site is all situated. The big monster poll asks what is/are your favorite monster types? I tried to cover most things, but fair bet I missed a few; if there’s something you want to see in the poll, leave a comment! (I CAN edit polls in progress with the poll widget on this site!) As for what I am doing now, I plan to try and finish a scene or two for the current game idea this week while the patreon polls finish up. If they finish early, then I can start working on either the main set or the mini-set for the month.

The majority of work left on the game is just raw content at this point. I want to let each activity a few variations depending on various factors to keep things different. This means each individual activity in the game is it’s own mini-set, with additional writing and coding. So just the basic stuff I want to do for the game is about three full size image sets, plus additional work to implement it; so about three months of work if I wasn’t doing anything else. (This is also not counting the problems I am sure to come across with Octane and larger scenes…) I really want to get a beta of the game situated in the next couple of months, but it really just depends on how much time I can find to work on it. (Interest and/or support helps too!)

EDIT 5/6: Added beastmen, cerberi, automatons to the poll choices.

RE-EDIT: So I am going to assume that me changing the poll choices somehow reset the votes… otherwise votes just doubled in less than 12 hours which is rather impressive. Also about half of the new votes were for the new choices, which is nice.