I know, I know. I don't post for ages and then I end up being a pest - but, this is exciting! Well I thought so, at any rate. :)
So! The power plant. The old original one was awful but I reworked it back in October and it was OK. Much better at any rate.
Anyhoo, so I'm playing a...
2020-01-08 23:25:37 +0000 UTC View PostWhenever I say that, I can't help but find the theme music to "He-man" pops into my head...
But I digress. In moaning away at my problems last week I forgot to mention successes. And to these I would add that now I have some "oomph" in the PC I can also use D Force. And I love it.
For...
2020-01-06 13:57:40 +0000 UTC View PostIt is indeed! Well new year, new habits and all that, no?
Actually, having fouled up horribly in November by not doing updates, even if those updates would have been rather dull ("Still rendering!"), I've decided to learn my lesson and do a once a weeker regardless.
Naturally, I...
2020-01-06 13:50:14 +0000 UTC View Post(aka "Just what the chuffing heck went wrong?")
First off it's worth noting that the time spent October onwards wasn't just on Chapter One (thank God!). Before I even started work on One the real work went into redesigning all of the locations and reskinning all of the cha...
2020-01-02 10:09:55 +0000 UTC View PostGuys, sorry for the silence, I swear remaking the Vanguard to Hi-Def damned near came close to killing me.
However! It is done! And it looks...lovely. I'll do a full mission report on the past month or so in a separate post in a day or so but for now please enjoy.
It's four times the ...
2020-01-01 15:40:12 +0000 UTC View PostIn the public post I mentioned some test renders....
They're not terribly well posed as they were really to see just what the new machine could do, but I thought I'd share just to show you how far I've come in the past month or so.
Lt Harris in the baths...
2019-10-31 19:36:05 +0000 UTC
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Sorry for the recent batch of quietness. Partly due to RL work and partly as I didn't have anything really new to say other than....I'm working on it still. But news!
TLDR version
A tad late in the day but it's still the 31st by my clock so here's the girls in a semi-Halloween, semi-film/game montage theme. Enjoy :) There's a link at the bottom for the files themselves.
Hi hi.
Just a quick note. I was hoping to get One out yesterday but I'm still missing a few renders. Having set them all to batch render over the weekend I have some 330 in the bag but I'm around 80 short. Although the majority of One's renders come out quite quickly on occasion I sti...
2019-10-16 06:11:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Yep...that could be the mock up of a statue/figurine...
Y'see I can get my girls made into actual figures by the wonders of 3d printing.
Still trying to get my head around the logistics of ho...
2019-10-13 07:21:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Might be Sunday for Chapter One but more likely Mon/Tue as I need to make sure the animations run smooth and get some music for them etc. Will totes shush now until One is released. But it's close :D
2019-10-11 23:39:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, Sarah seems pleased that we have them. Then again, I haven't actually told her what some of those animations might involve...
Anyhoo...... I'm going to be quiet for the next few days as I and the hamster just focus on chapter completion now. However, there is one thing that I am mulli...
2019-10-11 11:48:00 +0000 UTC View PostWe shouldn't have of course. But we have. *is currently happier than Annie being locked into a pub overnight*
Short version
By a whole series of cheats, cuts and plain good luck in faffing with things I'm able to add high quality animations at a minimal file size. Not hugely important...
2019-10-10 08:34:00 +0000 UTC View PostI'm not a fan of it, I'll confess.
Largely due to the logistics in that being a brit I suspect I'm on a totally different timezone to a lot of you, add to that the rather more "live" nature of it than, say, a forum and it could be a recipe for disaster.
However, recipes for disaster a...
2019-10-08 22:17:06 +0000 UTC View Post...we might have to change our views on that. Maybe.
As some of you know I've tried animations before, both using Renpy frame by frame (which wasn't great...) and also by trying full video which damn near broke me over the file size. (a single video ani was coming out to a quarter of th...
2019-10-08 07:52:19 +0000 UTC View PostOne of the things I've been trying to do during the remastering is keeping the characters as much the same as possible even when giving them new detailed skins etc. On the whole I've done pretty well and you shouldn't at any point go "Who the hell is that?" with chars looking the same mid to long...
2019-10-06 08:47:29 +0000 UTC View PostHi Hi :)
So, some of you liked the arty stuff yesterday and wanted them at a larger size. On reflection I wasn't that happy with some of them and so, in addition to doing 4k versions of the better ones, have thrown a few other portraits in instead.
For instance...
2019-10-05 13:59:26 +0000 UTC
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Just some little bonus bits and bobs. Obvs with the render hamster going flat out of late I can't do anything too special but I hope you like these anyway.
2019-10-04 16:36:35 +0000 UTC
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Yet another little extract has fallen into our lap due to an IT error....
Audio transcript from the preliminary hearing in respect to proposed courts martial of Lt C. Chadwick and C. Eng. A. Huang.
Captain Masters and Commander Benson presiding.
Alright, yes, I know. You've already been there :) But look at it now!
2019-10-04 15:20:52 +0000 UTC
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...no really! :)
*to be honest I just used that title as I wanted an excuse to use that render*
But actually I have been. All of the settings have been remastered and they look glorious compared to what we had before.
Not only that but most of the girls have been re-skinne...
2019-10-04 15:12:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Due to a terrible security blunder it seems one of them has to come to light....
Submission from Lt. C. Chadwick to the board of inquiry on the Intrepid following her vessels failure to meet it's planned rendezvous for docking after shore leave on Earth....
2019-09-24 09:03:15 +0000 UTC
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So everything is more naturally lit for a start with the unified colour scheme running through most of the base. The bottle is military issue plastic btw hence why it looks a little dull :)
S...
2019-09-23 18:53:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Hi!
With my compliments, please find attached the download file for issue 132 of Bored Pilot due to the delay in releasing Four because of the remaster work.
The download contains both a PDF for ease and the original PNG for quality.
I do hope you enjoy it.
... 2019-09-23 11:59:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi hi!
Apologies for a little bit of quiet of late but I've been working on the remaster side of things. I know I can be quite chatty but there were a few things I hadn't quite made my mind up on and rather than ramble on in my unusual way I wanted to be able to give you solid news on all o...
2019-09-23 11:53:45 +0000 UTC View PostI have some news! In case you haven't gathered :)
General gubbins
So I'm still rendering away, which I'm sorry about, but it is looking good. Like really good. I don't why it's all suddenly clicking but every render I seem to touch is just so much better than anything...
2019-09-05 16:02:44 +0000 UTC View PostHi hi,
I've been racing away to try and get all the renders in for Chapter Four all the way down to the wire but I'm afraid I'm still short. I've got over 600 renders in the bag but I still need more.
What's done -is- good. Indeed it's probs the best looking chapter so far...
