September 21, 2024

Report before the report (¬_¬")

This little report can be seen by all members, not just my Patrons. I owe it to you because some of you might be wondering "when will the update come out"...

It will be all ready this Tuesday or Wednesday at the latest. There was a little extra delay because I finally decided that in order to be happy with myself, I should put more of my part into some final things. So some final animations will be rendered at 30 frames per second. Right now I have 2 and a half of those 3 animations ready. The estimated completion time for the last 36 images that are part of the last animation is a little over 10 hours. So that will take the rest of today and the night and early morning. Tomorrow I continue rendering about 5 normal images (not part of the animation) and then another less complex animation that marks the end point of the update. So I'll be a bit tight on time but I have at least a full day to fine-tune all the other details.

I have 930 new images ready at the moment. So it's to be expected that the update will eventually contain about 1000 images.

A small technical detail about animations and their display. I've decided to take the same approach to the subject as the game "Intertwined". That is, no video. The images are a direct part of the game and are handled by Renpy itself to create a fluid animation... At least, for the moment. Maybe later if I create more and more complex animations I'll have to make videos because the buffering delay can be too noticeable with a very long animation by normal means.