The Dualist : Progress (and the lack of it)

posted 2009.08.07 at 19:32

Sitrep:

1. Everything I've threatened previously. The new version of the website, mainly - no progress on that front. Yet. I figure I'll get to it when Expulsion is closer to being actualized.

2. "Expulsion" has been re-scripted and laid out. At eight pages or so, it's going to be lot of work.* Still gotta do texture mapping (a lot of work for three shots), environment development, etc. See 4. for why this isn't going anywhere right now. Chapter covers have stalled out - that has nothing to do with 4 and more to do with the fact that 3 is a heck of a lot easier to work on at the moment.

3. Of the 48 pages of Chapter Five, 22 have been pre-prepped. Some new renders and cleanup work, the usual reformatting, all ready for dialogue. So whenever Expulsion is finished, there'll be a BIG load of pages following.

4. The PC I've been using for 3d work kicked the bucket. It works intermittently - signs point to repeated processor overheating. I could fix it, but it's a loaner and it's a P4 2.4 with 2 gigs of ram. I'm presently doing rendering work in a VM on my primary machine. While it works fairly well, there are some major quirks that prevent it from being a viable texturing solution. I've already ordered the first few parts for the replacement PC, which will be a quad-core something or other with comparatively kick-ass specs. The holdup, as always, is finances. Barring a massive windfall or a sudden transformation into a life form that doesn't need to eat, we're looking at a good six to eight weeks before I have all the components.

So, there it is. Nothing hits the website until the PC problem is solved, though that hasn't stopped work on reformatting. With any luck I'll have all of four and a good chunk of five reformatted and ready for dialogue (and maybe actually dialogued) by the time the all of the parts are in.

It may not look like it, but work is being done. Expect another month or two of silence, followed by a massive, massive update.

* The basics are pretty basic on paper, but are going to be difficult to adequately actualize. Fortunately the scene will be very good practice for a variety of techniques I'll need to master for Water and everything that follows. The more of TD2E 5-8 I can get bagged in the meantime, the smaller the gap between Expulsion and New Story Pages.