Zer0 Weekly #23

Just a wee small one this wee folks.

[Cursed Software]

So as you discord readers will be aware, am just kinda gonna copy paste and maybe paraphrase what I've went through this cursed as hell week.

Now I had made a really big dent into the cinema animation, almost all of "group A"'s poses are all done but sadly when I went to start on the last pose and loaded in Rhea (who I hadn't used in a bit) suddenly the software became hellishly unstable. I started getting crashes a lot and nothing I did seemed to elevate the issue, or would only turn out to be a bandaid fix it for short time at best. There was a lot more back n forth with 2 year old bugs suddenly reappearing and I was nearly having to look at completely reworking all the skin textures as a possible solution, but I'll save you the nonsense details.

But I was effectively getting hella demotivated after spending so much time with no progress and no real reason as to what was causing the issues.

[Scorched Earth]

After 4 days of nearly non stop troubleshooting with so much lost progress, I just had to bite the bullet and start on a clean slate. I backed up tk in all it's entirety and made a point to carefully reinstall from scratch (given how long ago it was I did my last install I wanted to make sure I didn't make any early mistakes).

On the plus side, thoughts on rejigged Rhea? I made her a bit slim and toner overall, and made her boobs a bit more manageable (for my own sanity). Also fixed the colour tone slightly and for a nice bit of variety I played around with a lot of the morphs to make her thighs uniquely thicc.

[Silver linings]

So I think I've managed to effectively rebuild the entirety of tk now, repeatedly testing, copying back over chunks of files at a time then seeing if I can load Cora (and sometimes all 4 characters) multiple times with the cinema room. I do have roughly 200 or so addon files still to add but am making a point to slowly go through them and make sure they're properly categorized.

A really good thing I'm happy to say is that I was able to load up tk and be into pose editing in around 1 min and 40 seconds which is miiiiles faster than what tk was previously managing. It was previously super inconsistent, would sometimes crash for no reason and was proper "I should go make a coffee" kind of slow. I will need to be a bit careful granted as I've not reloaded all the other characters yet so there's a slight chance that details might get changed if something happens to be missing.

Sorry there isn't much to report or show off this week as just yeah this issue really killed the momentum I was building up, but am hopeful I can bounce back especially now that tk runs seemingly better now as a result.

As always cheers for the support ^^