Summer's Gone - Season 2 - Chapter 1 - Dev Log #35

Hello,

Gone are the days of the Wednesday dev logs. Welcome the age of Sunday Logs.

It makes a lot more sense to have Dev Logs on Sunday, as I don’t do render work on it and instead focus on preparation, postwork, behind-the-scenes stuff, contracts, etc.

I finished my move, and after the initial 4 days of party invites and BBQs, I have now returned to my usual working routine.

This must do for a vacation for the next two years, even though I apparently semi-agreed to a trip to Mexico next year. I blame the tequila.

I'll only go there if I can clearly say I improved the release schedule of the 2000-2500 render updates.

My Main workstation with the A6000s has been running for a few days. It and all my monitors survived the trip. No issues there.

I still haven’t connected my other PC with the 4090 as I don’t have animations to render right now and would like to produce as little heat as possible.

Renders done in the past 6 days.

Renders: 6050 -> 6300 (~250)

I currently average about 45 renders per day, and I hope to increase this to around 55 by next week.

I hate nothing more than heat, and it’s affecting my output. My A6000s are reaching 80C°+ temps for the first time ever, and my mobile AC can’t cool the room at all.

I now live in a less insulated house again, and it shows.

The Dorms

I totally forgot to mention this in the previous log…

Surprisingly, there aren’t any really good assets for a college dorm.

There are assets for specific rooms, but not the hallway itself. At least nothing that looked good enough.

So, I decided to create my own.

I modeled a very basic hallway in Blender

How it looked in Daz:

How it looked an hour later:

It’s modular, allowing me to add as many additional floors as needed in the future. (*cough* Dorm parties)

Goth Treats Vol. 1

23 images and 3 extra images for the Silent Rain and above. 

Goth Trifecta Main Set

Goth Trifecta Extra images

As always, Treats aren’t about quality; they are about acting on sudden inspirations and finishing them before the inspiration goes away.

I might create an extra set based on the additional image for Nia. I really like it.

I’m certain I will create Vol. 2 before the new update releases… All I can say is… Goth Sasha hits surprisingly hard.  

Community Treat

Here are the 3 sets you can vote for:

1.       Bella, Ayua, and Nadia hanging out at the Beach.

2.       Bella & Zara in the classroom.

3.       Bella and Mila Catfight, including making up.

 You can vote for one below. It will be a free Treat set.

I added the first place and scenario that came to my mind to #2 as the comment only said “Bellchen and Zara.”

The community treat will be publicly available. (NSFW images need to be behind a paywall on Patreon iirc, so I will release it here for every supporter, but you can grab it from Discord, too.)

Previews

Zara love continues.

A rival enters the area.

I'm almost done with a big scene… And afterward…

Another big scene!

But that one is a lot more diverse… I’m looking forward to it.

I’m documenting my daily progress religiously and have a code snippet that tracks how many renders I complete daily.

It will be a cute little challenge to push the numbers up.

I'll see you in two weeks... We should be closing in on 7000 renders by then.

-            Ocean