Lition

Update 7.1.2019

Added 2019-07-01 13:40:18 +0000 UTC

I've once again traveled to see my partner, and now that I've settled and dealt with the jet lag, I have the issue of using a laptop with less power. I will be back on my own computer September 8th.

The timing is very poor because I'm in the middle of animating, and I'm having huge issues trying to animate on this laptop. On top of it having insufficient RAM and a 1050 instead of a 1070, it has some hardware issues. We're gonna take it to a repair shop this week, and I'm then gonna buy more RAM too. So that should help a bit.

But the animating right now is difficult. Generally when you're 3D animating you'd want to be able to playback your animation as smooth as possible, in this case 24 frames per second, so you know how it's looking.

Blender's always had difficulty getting to the exact 24, and that's been a minor inconvenience at most. However now I am only reaching a maximum of 4 fps. That's so low that I really just cannot see what is happening. The major motions are distinguishable but all the smooth short in-betweens are completely lost.

One trick is to trust my instincts and try to animate how I feel it should look, and then use a 'viewport render' every 30 minutes or so to see it in 24. This method would be awfully tedious because obviously the functional way to animate is to playback your animation almost every time you change anything.

For at least today I will try to find potential Blender related fixes, because who knows, maybe there is some function that could make it faster. So far I've tried a lot of things.

If I find nothing until Wednesday the one thing I can do is sculpt and model, so I will continue modeling Katie. At least pictures are doable in this state so maybe I could do some juicy pin-ups?