Episode 6 - Progress Report #22

Hey everyone

🙌Praise to the Goddess 🙌 for she has blessed me with a working PC 🙌

I finally got my new PC back and it seems like everything's fixed now 😊. I've been back working on renders since Wednesday. Setting the DAZ library up was bit of a pain in the butthole, but it looks like I got it all working now.

First impressions so far: Render times are down a little bit, from an average of ~35 minutes to ~25 minutes. But more importantly, loading and saving scenes have massively improved. Saving any scene used to cost me more than a minute, now I'm down to around 10 seconds. This will help me a lot in keeping the flow going without having to take a break after every render. Iray Previews are also a quite a bit faster now (this means loading a preview of how the final image will look like after setting up a scene, especially important to check lighting).

I haven't tested yet how it all holds up with big scenes with many background characters. I expect some mild improvements there as well. We'll see when I get to the bigger scenes eventually.

Here's the current progress:

• Writing: 100%

• Coding: 90%

• Environments: 75%

• New Characters: 7/7

• Background Characters: 18/40

• Renders: 16%

  • Part 1 (9:00pm): 560/720

  • Part 2 (10:00pm): 0/360

  • Part 3 (11:00pm): 0/550

  • Part 4 (12:30am): 0/750

  • Part 5 (2:00am): 0/500

  • Part 6 (3:00am): 0/600

• Music/Sound: 0%

• Testing/Polish: 0%

📆 Release date estimate: July/August 2025

I am SO happy to finally be back working full force. The last couple weeks have been rather frustrating. But we're back now, now let's see if I can speed up the rendering process a bit 🙂.

❤️ Enjoy your weekend! 🐰 Happy Easter! ❤️