Greetings, Mythies!
I was going actually to have my regular weekly update posted last week, then have the “Meowthos” April Fool’s Day post the day after, but I don’t like making back-to-back posts like that. I also didn’t include any actual update information with the Meowthos post because I didn’t want people to have trouble discerning which parts were jokey and which were serious!
Mentally I’ve not been great lately, which has led to me being generally less social than I normally am. This has nothing at all to do with Mythos, so don’t worry about any of that. There were just a few “adulting” things I had to take care of that upset me to the point of physical illness (having to pay a lot of money in taxes and buying Morgana a new car chief among the issues).
Let’s move on to the trouble I’m having with Mythos!
As I mentioned in my last actual update, I started doing the renders for the first scene. I was kinda “winging it” to get the characters to where they needed to be, and realized that I have to finish actually writing the code for the scene to know exactly which renders I need. So I did that, then back into Daz I went.
I… may have been a little too ambitious with this first scene, being as it has eight characters in it. That makes this the most complex scene in the game (a lot of the gala scene was done using “billboards” – flat images instead of actual characters – so there weren’t many human models on screen at once). My video card does not like this. I don’t want to rewrite the scene, so I have to get very creative about how I’m blocking it. I’ve finished rendering the parts of the scene that don’t have a bunch of people, at least!
I’m pondering cutting down some of the sex in this chapter, which… could cause problems for the people who are craving more of the naughty. My goal was to have two sex scenes for each of the love interests plus one extra, and to do that required me to have three in this chapter and three in the next. Since Kylie can sometimes be Kyle, that means I’d have to put six sex scenes in this chapter.
I could cut that down, but that’d mean one girl (or more) would have less nookie than the others. Every girl is someone’s favourite, so doing this would make some people unhappy. From a story perspective, I’ve worked out how to have all the new sex scenes put into places where it makes sense, but I also am eager to get this chapter done so people can see the resolution of the Chapter Three cliffhanger.
For what it’s worth, I know that Tara’s second sex scene isn’t getting cut. She’s the most popular non-cat character and has become (in my head) the “canon monogamous” love interest. I figure that most people sticking with Mythos aren’t primarily interested in the sex aspect anyway, so maybe cutting out some of the sex will be okay? Do you want to wait longer to have every girl sexed equally? Cut out some girls’ second scenes to get the story faster? Do you want to cut out sex for the rest of Book One since we’re so close to solving the mystery?
Please let me know your opinions through any of the million ways you have to reach me.
Chapter Four Scenes to be Done:
- It’s Always Sunny in Baltimore
- Writing: Complete!
- Coding: Complete!
- Renders: In Progress.
- Born in a Barn
- Writing: Complete!
- Law and Mordor
- Writing: Complete!
- For Here or To Go?
- Writing: Complete!
- High School Never Ends
- Writing: Complete!
- It’s LeviOsa, Not LeviosA!
- Writing: In Progress.
- Fairy Tail
- Things That Go Bump in the Night
- Lobster Thermidor aux Crevettes with a Mornay Sauce, Served in a Provençale Manner, with Shallots and Aubergines, Garnished with Truffle Pâté, Brandy, and with a Fried Egg on Top — and Spam
- We Will Rock You
- Ghostbusters!
- Doing the Dailies
- I Choose You!
Other Things:
- Version 3.11 Streamable (In Progress)
- Music Track Revamping
- Reshooting Some Side Images (Complete!)
- Chapter Four Achievements (0/4)
- Unnamed Tara Render
- Unnamed Mara Render
- Unnamed Kylie Render
- Glutton for Punishment
- Mental Health (~15%)
Keep the Legends Alive!
– Nine ♥