jestur

Dev update #13

Added 2021-04-09 18:20:40 +0000 UTC

Hello patrons!

First, I want to thank all of you for supporting. We are getting close too 200 patrons and have hit the $1k a month mark. I never thought I would get all this support at this stage. When I first started creating this visual novel, it was something to fulfill my creative bone and something to do while I was waiting to work again and recovering from surgery. I thought I was way over my head and it will silly thing to try. I still feel that way at times, but the support I get from you guys and all the nice things I hear about Ripples is something I never imagined. So from the bottom of my heart, thank you so much for believing in me! If this keeps up, I may not have to go back to work in IT.

On the PC hardware side of things. I recently purchased some upgrades that should help with development. I ordered a AMD 5900x CPU, which I am upgrading from a 3600x. So that should give me a great boost and speed up animation times. I 've been trying to find a RTX 3090 for close to MSRP for the past month, but still no luck. I have been entering the Newegg shuffle, which is like a random drawing to win one of the limit amount of GPUs they have in stock and I selected every option in hopes to get a 3090, but got select for a 3070 instead. So I decided to go ahead and buy it. I will still be out on the lookout for a 3090 but will use the 3070 until then. So these two things will help give me a boost in performance.

On the Ripples side of things, things are going pretty well. The last couple scenes were a little challenging and had lots of posing and animations and took longer then a normal scene would.(But they are really good scenes, some of my best animations work) The next couple scenes I should get through quicker because there will be less posing and animations and more dialog. But everything is turning out really good. The renders look better than they ever have and story is great. Image count is around 520 and the animations count is at 48. Haha, I know... at 48 animations already. And there are still a bunch more to do later in the update. This is going to be big update.

Thanks again for all your support.
-Jestur