Progress Report
Added 2025-01-22 02:29:45 +0000 UTCWhew. Sorry I haven't been on top of Progress Reports very well this month, folks. I've been trying to keep everything on target, which has been more of a struggle than I'd hoped. Anyway, it's well past time I did one, so lets get on top of that.
Left Hand Magic
This has been much harder to keep on top of than I'd hoped, but I have manage to keep on top of it. Both Trix and Arianna's Routes have their renders done through both their council encounter and their epilogues. Currently, I'd finishing up rendering for the council encounter portion of the Rev/Trix route, with the Epilogue rendering still ahead.
I'm anticipating wrapping up the rendering on either the 24th or 25th, which is good. I'm going to need a fair bit of writing time this month, because of the Epilogues structure. Hence trying to wrap up the rendering as early as possible. I've also managed to squeeze in the first of three animation fixes/redos I wanted to get done, and I'll hopefully get the other two run while I'm working on the coding/writing portion.
Mixed Media Short
This has been fighting me a bit, kicking up unusually long render times no matter how I tweak things. As such, I'm going to have to cut back to just 18 renders from the usual 20, though the exact number always varies anyway. 17 of them are already one, and I'll be running the final one tonight/tomorrow. (Seriously, the last few have taken like 28 hours each). After which, I'm making getting the MMS done quickly a priority. I want it done and posted before I finish rendering for Left Hand Magic, as I'm really going to need the writing time free for LHM this month. Which is also part of why I knocked out the Short Story when I had a chance, so that it doesn't conflict with doing said writing either.
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Since the Short Story is already out, that's it for now! I'll try to do another Progress Report on a more normal cycle of 4-5 days. If not, there will at least be the MMS releases somewhere around the 23-24th where I can drop a few extra words about how things are going...
Comments
I still don't understand how some of the games patreons out there make 3 times as much, have an actual team, and supposedly work full time...only to produce fewer and smaller updates than I do alone -_-. The twenty-eight hour thing is pretty unusual. Normally, that's the total time I'd seen for a 30 frame animation, not a single render. But that would be using my main rendering rig. It's not THAT odd to get 10-12 hour renders on my laptop, which I use for the Mixed Media Shorts. It's a solid gaming laptop but, well, laptops aren't the best for rendering.
Novus
2025-01-25 10:13:02 +0000 UTCEven when you think you are behind, you still seem to get more done than anyone else (part of the reason I am here). But twenty eight hours, holy shi... 👀. With times like that, it is a miracle anything ever gets finished 🤓.
Merlin
2025-01-22 15:22:45 +0000 UTC
