It's the "Oh Crikey, what must you think?" update...

The shockingly important bit

I am sooooo sorry.  I am sorrier looking than a wet cat that's looking sorry for itself. So, pretty sorry there as you can imagine. You can imagine the cat has stubbed it's toe as well for extra pathos if you like.

Why? Well not an apology to do with creation for a change. I was doing a little bit of housekeeping and to my shock I found my patreon account had funds in it. 

I've had my charging turned off since the car crash and my subsequent decision to rebuild the game. I thought charging off meant exactly that. But if I'm honest I also didn't expect any new patreons whilst all this was going on. So I didn't expect that the account would be taking in any money. It didn't occur to me to even check. 

And so to all my new patreons (and I use "new" in the loosest possible sense there), an incredibly late welcome, my most grateful thanks and my most humble apologies. * I can only hope you'll be kind enough to forgive my incredible ignorance.

In other news....

Oh my good Lord, my VA's are wonderful. Adding actresses to the animations, albeit an addition cost, has been a wonderful addition to the scenes within the game. Sarah's "She's in the vents" scene in Five has turned out incredible. Seven minutes of animation with SFX and voice (and some bloody decent animation if I say so myself) has turned a simple scene into something that is really quite special. I'm some more work to go out VA wise and some more to come in and, I have to say, I'm bloody excited about all of it.

In yet more news....

I'm happy with the progress but glad I gave myself the extra month before charging. My biggest concern at this stage is not that the work won't be done but that in bringing it all together I'd make an utter hash of combining all the files. So forgetting to drop in amended renders, or forgetting to correct a bug picked up on testing etc. Being able to take a breath and check it properly was the right call I think. Having those extra couple of weeks just to be sure will hopefully save me falling on my arse and make Five the something special it should be as opposed to a bit of a mess.

Oh, and some more news...

I've liquidised some assets and bought a 4090 graphics card PC. This is slightly more than twice as fast as the 3090. Some much needed "Oomph". If we compare my existing rendering powah with the revised powah once the 4090 is here it looks a bit like this. 

If we assume the 2070 has a base power of 1, the 2080 is twice as fast and would add 2 to that base. The 3090 is around 3 times as fast as the 2080 so adds 6 to that base. So my total current powah level is 1+2+6 = 9. 

My set up will now be the 2080, the 3090 and a 4090. (the 2070 is pretty useless for me these days) The base for this will be 2 (2080) plus 6 (3090) plus 12(4090) = 20. Twice as fast plus a bit. As an aside if we reverse the calculations back to when I very first started with a 1050 card the new set up combined is 80 times as fast as when I started...

And finally....

I'm working on putting together a "Synder cut/Whedon cut" trailer for you this week. The changes to the game have been so extensive that I think a simple side by side of what the game used to look like scene wise vs how it looks now will go a long way to justify some of the time spent. I'll be doing another trailer for Chapter Five itself in due course.

And that's it for now. I've got my head down finalising stuff and trying not to swear too much** but it's almost over. Christ, never remake a game...

Notty

* My God, I can't even take in bloody money without making a hash of it....Thankfully, I can still write a good knob joke.

** That last bit isn't going that well....