#chaostaleupdates

Probably the last devlog style post I do here, at least for now, since I am making progress slower than I want (this is also why I didn't post last month-), even though I know why, I'm struggling to stay focused for long periods still. I'm going to instead make posts when I get a decent amount of progress done, with the next hopefully being a complete or at least more complete Ruins.

Got most of the terrain done, just need to get in the rocks/cavern itself and get textures on the buildings, plus all the other set dressing (I've still got all of the assets done for that, but going to fix them up a bit when I finish the terrain itself).

I've also been rethinking the story a bit, or at least telling it, since getting an animation done will take a while still, so I'm thinking of making a comic of Mosiacverse, which would have been the last and connecting one, and get around to the other stories as animations when I can. I need to think about this more (and plan out however I do go about this).

I still never really know how to start these, so I'm just going to continue straight to what I've been doing: Early to mid December I was still struggling to get much work done, mostly focusing on finishing school work, but I have since been getting more work done again!

This year (2026) I will hopefully have a bit more time, along with pushing myself more to stay focused and on track, although I will need another job soon so that may eat into my time a little, but we'll see when I get there.

I've mostly been working on the shader and updating the assets, getting through a few of the categories. I'm aiming to get all of the Ruin's assets done, along with trying to get the Ruins done as a whole by the end of January, which I believe I can do so long as I can stay focused-

While I've still struggled to get back on Path of Another, I have been able to get work done on the InSilence script, getting the first two chapters to a final draft, and I'm going to see how well I can work on them alongside the Ruins.

Getting quite a bit into the Ruins, I'm going to focus this month on getting the cavern around it done, along with getting some more decorations and set dressing around. I am pretty sure I can get the Ruins done by the end of the year. I've also just been making changes to some areas, like how there is a massive lake there, and getting a few pretty views into the area.

As I was starting the draft for Path of Another (the extra story I was hopefully going to have fully drafted by this month), I realised that a good chunk of it doesn't make sense, basically reversing character development and events, so I need to take it back a bit to figure that out... fun.

I also kinda just mentally-blocked a bit on the last few days of october (and first few of november), so made pretty much no progress.

I've mostly finished sans' skeleton (just need to clean up weight painting and uvs/textures), going to make his clothes first then make Papyrus next. Enjoy this mildly cursed image of him (not full body since he has no clothes).

I've gotten most of the Ruins' environment models pass 1 done, which is focused on the designs of the models with a basic texture (colour), pretty much just need some furniture and buildings. The shader also needs more work, but for now I'm just slowly tweaking it occasionally. Once these are done, hopefully early September, I'll be laying everything out in the Ruins, and will note and make any changes needed.

Pretty much finished planning out my next story for Wattpad, and have started writing out a draft to better solidify that plan, which I'm aiming to get done by the end of the month, and maybe start posting next month (so long as I do get it done...). While working on this I also realised that I prefer this method compared to the way I was writing InSilence (which was more of a script formatting), so I'll likely try writing it up in a similar way at some point after the draft.

There's quite a few creative liberties throughout here to try and get some parts to work, or were just funny and made sense.

Taking a step back from the model references to do a more basic reference of the characters, mainly to get an easier look at and notes of their designs, along with making sure they are scaled nicely with each other.

These are all still sketches, with sans still in progress and a couple others not started, and I'm going to do another run after, I am just first making sure their general proportions are good. This has led to some funny notes like Toriel's mouth looking way to big lol. After the Undertale characters are done I will begin working on AU designs, pretty much just building off of these ones again.

And finally, InSilence's script got to a pretty good stage, but a few things still feel off so I'm going to bring it a step back to be in the same state as I'm doing the rest of them now, which is first as an idea board on Obsidian, getting down all of the story ideas and building off of that a bit before getting into scripting properly, which is probably a step I should have done but I had skipped it since I already knew what I wanted to do, but didn't have it written down anywhere.

This is the board for Evershifting, too zoomed out to actually show anything (don't want many spoilers anyway), but it's a decent show of how the laying out works. some look longer, but are just more broken up, or rather have more detail in them.

And for June I should be able to get the Underground Greybox done, Undertale character references done, and begun on AU references, and hopefully most of the stories laid out in idea boards (Basically just finishing off what's been shown here I guess lol).

Time for a small section not on Chaos/Tale :3

I had an issue with one of the core concept/theme/ideas of In Shadows We Live, which I have had an idea on how to fix that which has been noted (solely realized by the current uni assessment lol), and is ready to be expanded on more at some point.

Anyways!, Finally got the InSilence script done!, and got more through the character references but still got a ton more to do.

The other thing I've done is start to block out the environments, getting the Ruins and Snowdin grey-boxed. I had previously finished the Ruins one, which did lead to me learning a bit of Blender's limits, however it had to be restarted after reworking how I'm going to make these (partly due to that experience-)

I've had to utilize some of my "creative liberties" to help make some parts of this actually work, as well as just some things I feel make sense or make it feel nicer (at least to me), such as the actual game path being dug out into the ground, letting monsters watch as any human travels to the end, along with Home actually being built around the path, rather than extending out after it, since it felt nicer with how much space there was.

I also uploaded a short animation test early March for the art style and little test of animating in Blender, though it needs work, it does work as intended which I guess is good (flows to quickly and needs better camera framing for two).

Still a bit behind but still making progress, the InSilence script is almost done, just has one chapter left then it should be good. I've started working on models and environments again, and I am almost done with the sans references.

Kinda scattered this month, worked on the script and a handful of references. I have a better direction for what to work on now, and while I didn't properly set any previously, I actually have goals for next month, which if I can achieve means I'll have a little something to properly show off!