[Weekly Development Update #30]

Quick dev update here.

The next version is coming along smoothly. However, the animations are taking much longer than I expected to finish rendering, which is what I been waiting on. I been trying to get those rendered first because I need to send those to my sound guy asap so I know that's being worked on as I'm coding the game. I'm just about done rendering the other one but I still haven't gotten to the twerking one yet because the one I'm rendering now is taking forever, about 2 hours for one frame.

I talked about this in Discord in the patron only chat, but I have great hardware at the moment, so that's not the issue. My personal problem, which isn't exactly a problem, is I keep improving my character models - making them more realistic and adding more detail and quads and upping texture resolution. This means I end up needing more and more power to the point where it eats away my 4090. I'm already on my second 4090 because the first one, which I had for only about 6 months, died while rendering. I'm noticing that since I upgraded just Marnie, things are taking even longer to render - like 2 hours longer for one image. Before I would say that it would be impossible for anyone to use my Marnie model if you didn't have atleast 64 GBs of ram, but now I can say it would be impossible for you to even render this model without atleast 90+ and nothing less than a 4080. My hope is that the 5090's are much stronger than the 40's but knowing myself, it's only a matter of time before I keep improving my models to where I would eventually need something better. I think any game developer wants good graphics and as much realism as possible, but I personally do my best to keep up with current technology in the 3D world. I also don't just only use Blender, I also use Maya and Substance Painter. Going backwards is not an option either, I only go forwards (ironic given that this is a remake). So there's no point in telling me to reduce anything HELL nah. Just need to finesse different ways of doing things, or build a rendering pc.

Speaking of which, as we continue to grow more here on Patreon, I'm making it a mission to build a rendering PC so we can avoid these longer wait times due to my constant persistence to make 3D models more realistic and have better graphics. Also it would help as I don't have to stop working while I wait to render and can continue while another PC is rendering. Also no, render farms are not worth it as they are crazy overly expensive (I used many in the past like irender - irender also financially supports Blender funny enough, as does Adobe).

I don't really have much of a life and it's been like that for awhile (I'm cool with it). I wake up, work on Godson pretty much all day, and when I can't work on the game because my computer is rendering, I do Uber in the meantime. I can say there's quite a few people in real life I've showed Godson to from doing Uber and I know a few of them are here on Patreon. Hey, I have to advertise in real life too. You may think differently because you haven't experienced it, but almost every dude I show Godson to in real life wants to play it - it's never a weird or awkward conversation. It's always, "Really? How do I play it?" type shit. Honestly, who wouldn't want to play a game where you get to bang hot milfs, am I right? Basically, I'm dedicated to this game and I'll slow down a bit once we're much further along. It's still early in the game and I don't have time to slow down, and I have a ton of things I still want to incorperate.

Anyway, I hope to have this next version out by the end of the month, but if not, it'll be early next month. The twerking animation is 240 frames long, so 240 renders. I'll let you know the progress but if it takes too long, I'll just release this current update without it and add it later as a quick patch once it's done. I'll let you know the status on Monday.

That's all for this dev update, see you in the next post.