Weekly dev log

Hey everybody, it's time for another dev log.

I don't have too much to report this week. Everything is going smoothly and progress is pretty much on target for where I'd like to be at this point in development. I ran into a small hitch that has slowed me down a bit the past week and that is related to an asset that I committed to using that is a complete resource pig. And because of that, I've been needing to render on my main PC since it's the only one with enough vram to render the scenes. I'll need to be more selective going forward and make sure my scenes can fit into 16gb of vram to prevent this from happening again. I tried using scene optimizations to make things fit, but it really impacted how it looked so I had to run with it. Of course the downside of rendering on my main PC is how much it heats up the room. It gets pretty warm in my main workspace as it is, but when you have a crazy workstation PC running at 100% gpu load for hours on end, it gets pretty toasty. Fortunately after this scene is done I can go back to sending my renders to my render PC which is in another room.

Some things I've been working on other than the usual renders and coding are animations and some quality of life improvements for the game. I intended to implement a couple of animations with the last update but I just couldn't get them looking as good as I'd like. I know what you're saying, anything would look better than the janky animations in the game currently, and I agree, but I want to get a good reliable consistent workflow going before I really jump into making the animations as to not waste too much time. I have purchased a nice pack of adult animations that I have been messing around with and several of them are going to fit in nice for some of the past scenes and several will be great for some future scenes. Another thing I was going to implement was the option to rename Luke and Kathryn. One of my helpful patrons had given me a modified script with the coding all in place to accomplish this, but unfortunately I didn't have time to get this in for chapter five since there would be several renders to redo, such as phone screens with the character names, etc. I'll try to get this done for this chapter though.

I know I keep saying this, but I will post a few polls this week. I've been so focused on renders that the days just get away from me. I'm going to spend the rest of this week working some patreon posts as well as commissions for my GOAT members.

That's all for now guys. Thanks again for all the support and I'll see you in the next one.

Bobby