Hey, everybody! I’m back! I’ve regained control after Morgana’s little jaunt, and she’s currently… occupied elsewhere.
The timing worked out well; she and I had planned her doing the April Fool’s Day update as soon as we discovered April 1st fell on a Friday. However, it coincided with a week where I got literally nothing done on Mythos.
Okay, that’s not entirely true… I was very busy with something I had to do before I could even do any more work on Mythos, so I guess it’s technically me working on Mythos? I’ll explain exacxtly what happened, but it may not make much sense to people who haven’t worked with Daz, before.
I upgraded my Daz to version 4.20, after putting it off for a while. However, for some reason, that just… completely broke my Smart Content tab. I know a lot of people knock the Smart Content, and it’s true that it doesn’t even work properly half the time, but it just completely stopped functioning after I upgraded Daz. I tried reimporting metadata and all that crap, but nothing worked. I still doesn’t work. So I had to do something else I’d been putting off for a while: Organizing my Daz library.
For any of you out there are who are just getting into Daz — ORGANIZE YOUR LIBRARY NOW AND KEEP DOING SO AS YOU GO! IT Roy actually has a great video about this, which I used as my foundation. The video is long, but you don’t have to watch the whole thing to get it – basically, as long as you don’t touch anything in the “data” and “runtime” folders, everything else are just “shortcuts” that you can put wherever you feel like.
When I first got started, I was just installing things to wherever the creator put them, and some of them were installed improperly because I didn’t know what I was doing. I was finding assets I forgot I had (damn you, Daz sales). I found that creators can’t seem to agree if a house would be an environment or a prop. There were directories named “environment”, “environments”, and “enviroment.” There were characters in the hair folder. It was just chaos.
So my entire week was sorting through all that nonsense. Separating things into a way that made sense to me. Now I don’t need Smart Content at all, because I can find things far faster by just going into the directory structure I created for myself.
This week I did get stuff done. Since, as I’ve mentioned before, I’m not a “numbers person,” I’ve decided to just do away with those percentage wheels. From now on, you’ll see what I’m working on with just more details on what aspects I’m doing. Hopefully this new format make sense to you!
Chapter Three General Progress:
- Side Image Re-Revamp 163 images – COMPLETE!
- Story Flow Chart – COMPLETE!
- UI Improvements – COMPLETE!
- New Music Tracks
- As Above, So Below – COMPLETE!
- Geraldine – COMPLETE!
- Seventy-Five Year Trauma – COMPLETE!
- Modred’s Legacy – COMPLETE!
- Codito Ergo Sum
- ???
- Maybe learn After Effects?
- Introduction Scene by Nine – COMPLETE!
- Creation of New Characters – COMPLETE!
- New Mythos Logo (commissioned) – COMPLETE!
- Sex Animations
- Chapter Three Title Screen
- Organization of Daz Assets – COMPLETE!
- Maybe learn After Effects?
- New Opening Title Sequence
Chapter Three Scene Progress:
- Scene: Apologies to the Serling Estate – COMPLETE!
- Scene: A Little Help from my Friends – COMPLETE!
- Scene: Yeah, About That… – COMPLETE!
- Scene: It Goes to 11 – COMPLETE!
- Scene: Shantay, You Stay – COMPLETE!
- Scene: Your Call is Very Important to Us – COMPLETE!
- Scene: Reach Out and Touch Someone – COMPLETE!
- Scene: Fuck the Police
- Writing – COMPLETE
- Coding – In Progress
- Scene: Ah, My Goddess!
- Writing – In Progress
- Renders – In Progress
- Scene: Touched by an Angel
- Writing – In Progress
- Renders – In Progress
- Scene: Magic, the Gathering
- Writing – In Progress
- Renders – In Progress
- Scene: Grumpy Old Men
- Writing – In Progress
- Renders – In Progress
- Scene: Werther’s Original
- Writing – In Progress
- Renders – In Progress
- Scene: The Lyin’ Bitch and her Wardrobe
- Writing – In Progress
- Renders – In Progress
- Scene: Ventrilo Harassment
- Scene: It’s Been Revoked
- Scene: Who Ya Gonna Call?
- Scene: Cry Little Sister
- Writing – COMPLETE!
- Coding – In Progress
- Scene: Fancy
- Scene: My Immortal
- Let the Bodies Hit the Floor
- One (Nothing Wrong With Me)
- Two (Nothing Wrong With Me)
- Three (Nothing Wrong With Me)
- Four (Nothing Wrong With Me)
Keep the Legends Alive!
– Nine