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Dev Diary, 15th of January, 2021

Added 2021-01-15 13:12:40 +0000 UTC

The new hardware is in place and even without the 3090 it is a dream to work with and I couldn't be happier. Posing is much easier, and there's a huge improvement in saving, loading, previewing renders and starting the rendering process. Basically bits and pieces of improvements all over the board.

I still lost quite a bit of time getting everything reinstalled, and I had to rebuild every character in the story from scratch due to old ones were all lacking textures because of optimalizations I did in the early stages of the story, and somehow they got lost when transferring all the files from my old computer. On the good side, I will be moving forward with 4k-8k textures instead of the good old 1k-4k, upping the visual quality greatly.

Also, since I lost all of last weekend due to this, I ran out of poses for this week (I don't have a lot of time to pose during the evenings after my normal job), so I rendered animations for most of the time.

Current render count is at 164 still renders and 2,276 animated frames. The prologue is finished and the intro for 5 of the 8 total different paths (depending on your last choices in chapter 4). This week I'll be focusing on posing and rendering still renders so that I can move forward with the story.

Nothing much else to report this time. Have a great weekend and stay safe.