MorriganRae

Episode 6 - Progress Report #22

Added 2025-04-19 11:59:32 +0000 UTC

Hey everyone

🙌Praise to the Goddess 🙌 for she has blessed me with a working PC 🙌

I finally got my new PC back and it seems like everything's fixed now 😊. I've been back working on renders since Wednesday. Setting the DAZ library up was bit of a pain in the butthole, but it looks like I got it all working now.

First impressions so far: Render times are down a little bit, from an average of ~35 minutes to ~25 minutes. But more importantly, loading and saving scenes have massively improved. Saving any scene used to cost me more than a minute, now I'm down to around 10 seconds. This will help me a lot in keeping the flow going without having to take a break after every render. Iray Previews are also a quite a bit faster now (this means loading a preview of how the final image will look like after setting up a scene, especially important to check lighting).

I haven't tested yet how it all holds up with big scenes with many background characters. I expect some mild improvements there as well. We'll see when I get to the bigger scenes eventually.

Here's the current progress:

Writing: 100%
Coding: 90%
Environments: 75%
New Characters: 7/7
Background Characters: 18/40
Renders: 16%
- Part 1 (9:00pm): 560/720
- Part 2 (10:00pm): 0/360
- Part 3 (11:00pm): 0/550
- Part 4 (12:30am): 0/750
- Part 5 (2:00am): 0/500
- Part 6 (3:00am): 0/600
Music/Sound: 0%
Testing/Polish: 0%

📆 Release date estimate: July/August 2025

I am SO happy to finally be back working full force. The last couple weeks have been rather frustrating. But we're back now, now let's see if I can speed up the rendering process a bit 🙂.

❤️ Enjoy your weekend! 🐰 Happy Easter! ❤️