Progress Report

Another progress report so soon?! Gasp!

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Okay, actually that gasp was sort of appropriate? 

Good news first. All renders for Haven's Port are done and post-processed. Yay! 

Sort-of-neutral-news next! There are 146 of them. For reference, a normal sized build is usually 100-110 renders. A 'large' build is usually 115-125 renders. Meaning this build isn't so much 'large' as 'huge.' 

The possibly-bad-implications last. This is the reason I'm actually making this report at all, since normally I wouldn't make another one for a couple more days. Unfortunately, even I didn't quite realize what a monster I was making. I knew it was a bit of an oversized build. But...146 renders is a bit beyond expectations. Particularly given I stopped rendering at 19 scenes, when I'd originally intended for there to be 20.

O.O

The net result is that I'm...less confident of my timeline that I'd like to be. There's still every chance that I'll be able to get the release out on time. Only one or two scenes have much in the way of complex coding to them this time, which will help. The 29-30th is also a weekend, which will help even more. But...that's still a lot of writing to do. Like, really a lot. Which also means a lot of editing. At the moment, I'm feeling intimidated enough by it to post this progress report as a sort of 'heads-up.' 

Currently, I'm still hoping to hit an on-time release. But...I would not be overly shocked if things end up running a day or two over target. I'll do my very best not to let that happen. But, after seeing just how much of a monster I sort-of-unintentionally created, I felt I probably ought to warn about the possibility. I'll through up either another progress report, or at least a quick note or two, when I have a better feel for how it will play out...