A hell of a while, nearly six months, since I made a journal update here. I uploaded four new screenshots, which showcase the work I've done since then. Most of it's been done over the last month or so, because I didn't do much work while school was in session last quarter. Damn you, classes.

What I have done:
- Deformers. You can't see the effects of these in the screenshots because they are, sadly, still frames. But trust me, they're cool, and make the hair effects look good.
- Terrain. Obviously. This is what the characters are running around in. So far, I've got the basic terrain structure in place, and have one terrain object flow smoothly into another. All in all, fairly detailed, with a pretty quick load time. I need to upgrade to the newer version of Bryce, however. I updated my OS to Mac OS X 10.4, which, while it allows me to implement newer, cooler features (see the part about anti-aliasing), it's not compatible with Bryce 5, which can no longer export objects and images...that's kind of important. *sighs* $40 of this week's paycheck...already committed. If I'd bought everything I need for this thing at this point, I'd be a cool $500 in debt about now. -_-
- Full screen anti-aliasing. Now this is what makes it look really good. With OS 10.4, anti-aliasing is finally available in Quesa. It makes all the images look really smooth and professional grade. Unfortunately, it also makes it run a lot slower, and it has to work hard just to keep at the default frame rate (15 fps). I need a better graphics card. There's another couple of weeks worth of paychecks.

Up next:
- Terrain streaming. It loads 9 terrain objects completely at the beginning. Obviously, the entire land that could be explored is potentially limitless in it's dimensions, so I have to get it to load terrain bit by bit as it comes within a certain range (4096 units for those of you who care...just a little bit out of the camera view range of 4000 units).
- Terrain object placement. Trees, and water, and stuff. Pretty self explanatory.