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I think I’m developing a bit of an obsession with perforated steel plates… I suppose it is better than my original concept, which basically was JUST bare concrete everywhere.

So the idea here, is that the ceiling has a 60cm wide “rain” shower head, so you can just rinse this concrete pit without anyone having to crawl into it to do so.

It also washes the occupant, I suppose? The drain might be too small, I’m not entirely sure.

The narrow window is covered with two layers of perforated steel, so you literally can’t reach out (or in) at all. I’ve also rounded most of the corners with a 45° step to give it more of that “poured concrete” feel.

A new Froznovia excerpt

There is a new chapter of Froznovia on the Patreon: The Wing of an Angel.

I’ve made some light revisions to the introduction, a little cleaner, a little more detail.

Chronologically, “The Wing of an Angel” happens years before the Froznovia introduction. My writing is a mess, but I must continue.

Second Life

We are continuing the update round on the Lined Chrome series. This week has been a little… difficult in the output department.

Lined chrome elbow cuffs v14

• PBR Material + fallback.
• PBR Support for core locks & accessories.
• Improved chain texture.
• Switched to the new documentation URL in menus.
• Removed the old attachment location enforcement.

Lined chrome thigh bands

• PBR Material + fallback.
• PBR Support for core locks & accessories.
• Improved chain texture.
• Switched to the new documentation URL in menus.
• Removed the old attachment location enforcement.
• The chain override for the primary lock point has been moved to the inner thigh ring.
• Chaining the primary lock point should not be possible anymore (should limit chain spaghetti).
• Re-added the missing front belt pose & configuration.

Froznovia

I’ve done a lot more writing on the novel (mostly notes). I’m going through a second pass of all the major characters to bring them on part with Mika Dreher & Emma Muller. Furthermore, I’m also rewriting Alina’s induction to take in account world-building changes. I’m also working on a chapter called “The wing of an angel”, which relates to Erika and the Von Kraul arm.

I really, really, would like to start info dumping some of this stuff on Patreon, maybe for members only or something. But I need to know whether anyone is interested at all by this?

VRChat

I’m doing some work on the Prison Cell Block D-5. I’m trying to be as careful and as thorough as possible because some of this has the potential to completely break the map if I release it in a bugged state:

• Item auto-return: You won’t be able to hide cuffs in walls at all.
• Audio muffling for the padded cells: this is somewhat functional, but testing that it works properly is slow and difficult.
• Media player: No real progress, the one player I want to use doesn’t have playlist/queue support, either I find a better player that fits my aesthetic, or I have to code one.

I lost count of how many attempts I did for these chain links. And it turns out that most of them were useless:

• Having a visible weld/closure point was too distracting.
• Turns out that rounded links look worse because it makes it more obvious which link is which when they overlap.
• A dark background is normally a big no-no for alpha textures, but here it actually looks better when you zoom out.

So here we are, I’ve put the two textures side-by side, so you can see the difference. I wanted an improvement, but not to the point that it became too distracting, and I think that’s it.

Some minor changes to the cigarette case after a friend started showing me some really nice engraved guns.

I’ve also done a lot of writing in the past 3 days, nearly 2000 words. And much more since the year started. The Froznovia manuscript is growing, but it is more a spider web than anything resembling a story. I really wish I could release more of it, but I have no idea how.

It has a bit of everything, mostly lore building and chronological data, but also a bunch of new elements and characters: Erika getting the Von Kraul arm from her father Leupold, a visit of the Von Kroenen family vault in the Wurmingstein imperial fortress, an interrogation scene with the daughter of a diplomat… Hell, I even wrote a mini scene involving a social media influencer being forced to Vlog her own arrival in the Froznovia penal colony (this is absolutely not canon, but it was funny, in a way that a corpse is funny).

It helps me cope, it serves as a conduit for some really dark thoughts.