Hello!

A lot of previews this month, as I've been working through a bunch of different scenes that are worth showing glimpses of.

Now that I've gotten through the big party scene of ch3, working through the smaller scenes and conversations has been quite refreshing. It feels like I'm making a lot more progress when I'm able to tick things off of my scene list with more regularity.

The render count for ch3 is now over 1800. How many renders will the chapter contain once complete? I haven't got a concrete answer, but I can ballpark it. I'm going to guess it'll break 3000. So let's say there's another 1200 renders to make. With my new computer, now that I've had a month of working with it, I would estimate that's about two months of work.

With that being said, I'm going to (hesitantly) guess at a July release for chapter 3. I'll be able to better assess this prediction in the end of May dev log, but at my current rate of progress I think 600 renders in a month is doable, as long as I've got the time to dedicate to putting the work in. Previously, I was bottlenecked by my render speed, so there was only so many renders it could actually do in a day, but now I'm able to work more on setting the renders up to make the most of the new hardware and the render speed it can provide, knowing that it's no longer taking 40 minutes to an hour per image.

Naturally, I want to get the update out as soon as I can. I'm hoping that my two month guess (as things stand right now) isn't too optimistic, but you never know.

Thanks for your patience, as always.