Update #31 We in the dungeon now

Hello!

This week I've started rendering stuff in the dungeon. There's a big map I've been using for it which looks great. The issue is that it has so many lights already added to it that I've been crashing when trying to render images from the wrong angle.

If you look at the picture above, I've actually not added a single light myself, it's all there already, and the entire map is like that. Maybe better occlusion planes could've helped, which I wonder if there are any at all, but I've no clue how to do stuff like that myself.

It gets a lot better once I turn off every light that's not relevant to the current scene, but since the switches aren't in order it's quite time consuming. Anyway, the first fight is fully done, so that's nice.

Do note the new fits that were voted upon. Saranhil's tights got some snake skin print on them, they were rendering weird from certain distances, the print makes it less noticeable. Also, we can totally pretend that it's made from an actual magic snake monster, and thus perfectly serviceable as protective gear. Yay, fantasy settings.

Tanathil and MC got a little something outfit wise as well, I wasn't going to, but they looked a tad bit unprepared compared to the rest. Ruru did not need anything though, since everyone knows that maids are always prepared for any and all circumstances.

Oh, here's a picture that netted me one crash.

Again, every light is part of the map from the beginning. And it's the same map as the stairs in the above pic. Yeah, you might be able to see how there could be some issues. Looks pretty though.

All that is to say that the beginning of this dungeon has been slow going work for me. It should speed up now though, since most scenes going forward won't have eight characters to pose. For context, I should finish scene 6 tomorrow, which would mean that half the scenes are done. 

I'm definitely putting less effort into any other fight scenes this episode. You'll be able to see the exact moment in the episode when I got tired of crashing after spending time on posing the stupid enemies. They aren't exactly important for the game/story, so it's not much of a loss. Time and effort better spent on other types of action, eh?

Righto, that was about all for today.

Thank you for your support, and I wish you a tremendously fabulous week!