Still Rendering...
Oh, Nina... <3
2022-05-04 15:03:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Yeah... :)
And this, of course, is another in-game image.
More for our Patrons, shortly.
Cheers,
Team XTZ
2022-05-04 14:59:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone.
We are, as you can see, deep in our renders.
This small mosaic (25 images out of about 100...) is of the second scene of version 0.0.3.
There are 15 scenes in this update (so far...), so you can do the math :)
Coming up later this week: the new Lady of The Month poll, some Patron-Only images and a few more interesting things, as our time will allow.
Cheers,
Team XTZ
2022-05-01 17:32:02 +0000 UTC View PostA still from Patricia Analova's "Lady of The Month" animation clip.
You may notice that the image quality is a bit lower than our regular still images.
This, of course, is to save time - this image, in the default iRay settings, took about 23 minutes on our system.
At our regular, high quality still settings, it takes 60-90 minutes.
Instead, we will use a post denoiser to reduce the grain.
Not what we usually like to do, but until we get a 3090 in a second, render dedi...
Ms. Analova's clips are on the way, of course.
2022-04-17 21:56:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone.
Here are some updates about what we've been doing this week.
First, of course, we're continuing our renders of the game.
Secondly, I myself am working full time on "Saving Paula" for over a week now :)
A couple of things that I've already noticed: DAZ is slow, and my beloved RTX 3060 definitely needs a bigger brother...
We have been so busy with some re-structuring of the game, re-designing texture...
2022-04-13 10:30:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi guys.
In about 24 hours, we'll start the Big Cleanup!
Meaning that we'll delete all the Patron material older than 3 months.
So this is the time, for anyone interested, to download the different tier updates.
Cheers,
Team XTZ
P.S.:
Oh, yeah - these are actual game photos of Nina talking to Paula... :)
2022-04-02 21:17:26 +0000 UTC View PostHi guys.
It seems that there are some broken links on some servers - On GoFile, especially.
This seems to be a systemic problem, on the servers themselves, since we can't see links to other materials as well, from different computers, on those servers.
So here we put a link that does work, of our latest version - just in case, and especially for our new members and followers.
Cheers,
Team XTZ
2022-03-29 10:24:27 +0000 UTC View PostHello all.
The new Poll's up, so start voting!
:)
Hi everyone.
On this week's Sunday Update we want you to meet some of our new girls, while we keep working on our game.
Tomorrow we'll upload the Lady of The Month poll for March, and send our dear Patrons some special photos.
Cheers,
Team XTZ
2022-03-20 21:04:13 +0000 UTC View Post
As we said, there are two important policy changes coming, and the second one is this: the one-dollar tier will be shut down for new Patrons at the end of this month, and will be completely closed in July.
Until the 1st of July, it will still receive updates, but not after that.
There are two reasons for this:
1) There is no one-dollar tier on our SubscribeStar page, and this makes the Patron and SubscribeStar pages incomparable, which makes everything uneven and co...
2022-03-15 11:16:55 +0000 UTC View Post
A little more about the changes in project-management: Besides me working full-time on the game for (at least) the next three months, there will be two major changes in our Patreon and SubscribeStar pages.
About one of these decisions I've been thinking for a long time, and wasn't really sure what to do until I've talked to a couple of supporters here.
Basically, it goes like this: we have supporters who have been paying us for many months, some even over...
2022-03-13 23:08:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello to all our Patrons, Subscribers and followers.
We are hard at work on our renders.
But with that, we're making very important changes both in our handling of our game, and of our following.
A very detailed information is on the way today, in following posts.
One main point is that I, myself, am finishing soon a payed project, and am taking a three-month unpaid leave from every other project and am going to focus solely on "Saving Paula....
2022-03-13 12:45:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone.
Rendering, rendering... Hundreds of images, so it takes time.
The picture above is of the script - or, rather, "story" print-outs, since it's a game.
Yap: version 0.0.3 starts at page 27 and ends at page 135.
Considering the fact that there were about 350 renders for the first 26 pages (versions 0.0.1 and 0.0.2), it means that we'll probably looking at about 1,500 new renders...
:)
But it's not just that there's over 5 times the text, many new ...
2022-02-27 20:39:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone!
These last few days we're rendering animations - both Paula's Leady Of The Month clips and the new game update's, version 0.0.3.
It should end by Wednesday, and then we'll send the LOTM clips to the relevant Patron tiers.
Until then, here are three images, each from a separate animation shot, from that animation.
The images are free for all, but the animations, of course, will be available only to the relevant Patrons.
Cheers,
Team XTZ
2022-02-20 11:09:11 +0000 UTC View Post
This image took 14 hours to render, because the poor 12gb RTX 3060 simply couldn't handle the building - it's memory run out.
The previous photos were either without Silvia in the scene, or without the building - so the DDR was barely sufficient.
Having a 32gb AMD FirePro Duo, and not being able to use it because Daz doesn't have a decent renderer that can use it is so frustrating...
At least the Ryzen 9 5950X is there to carry the load - the other workstations I have can't ...
2022-02-15 05:38:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi guys.
Another small batch of our 0.0.3 version.
The rest, today, will be for Patrons only.
But it's still nice to see, we think :)
Team XTZ
2022-02-14 07:56:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi guys.
We've already started rendering our 0.0.3 massive update, and figured we can put some photos here.
So here's the first, and more tomorrow.
Our Patrons, of course, will get some exclusive stuff.
Cheers,
Team XTZ
2022-02-13 22:42:16 +0000 UTC View Post
For our followers here.
Next week: animation clips.
But those, I'm afraid, will be for Patrons only... :)
2022-02-08 07:20:40 +0000 UTC View Post
And Paula it is!
So next Sunday Update - the first animation clip of our main lady!
Cheers,
Team XTZ
2022-02-07 11:37:24 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone.
It's Sunday, and the update time is here.
1) At today's end, our February's Lady of The Month poll will close, and we'll have the results.
So we can render the new animation clips of your chosen character.
Tomorrow we will announce the poll winner, together with sending out her Hi-res posters based on Patron tier-level, and next Sunday (hopefully) send out the animation clips.
2) We are working hard to finish the ...
2022-02-06 13:24:14 +0000 UTC View PostHi guys.
We've just put a small scene, hot from the 0.0.3 script, in our free channel "xtz-story" in our Discord server.
( https://discord.gg/G3SF8Mwf ).
It's with Paula and Nina.
Please jump in there, and tell us what you think.
2022-02-04 10:30:45 +0000 UTC View Post