Weekly Report 282 - No More Money
Hi guys,
How's everyone doing? I hope you all had an amazing week!
As for me, it’s been a bit of a rough one. As you know, my main bottleneck right now is rendering animations. Until now, I’ve been using a machine with 2x 1080TI for rendering animations and another with 2x 3090s for everything else.
A few weeks ago -thanks to your support- I was able to invest in a brand-new rendering machine with 2x5090s to improve the workflow. It finally arrived earlier this week. After spending hours setting everything up, I realized the software I use doesn’t yet support the 50xx series. Eventually, I found a workaround using an alpha version. It’s not fully stable and a few features are missing, but overall, it works and it allows me to retire the old machine and significantly improve development speed.
That being said, the whole setup process and debugging took up most of my time this week, so I was only able to pose a few scenes, not as many as I’d hoped. Still, with the new hardware (mostly) up and running, I’m excited to get back on track next week with much more power behind me.
To give you a better idea of the upgrade, here’s a quick benchmark comparing the render times of the old setup (2x3090) and the new one (2x5090) for the image in this post.
Thank you again for making this upgrade possible!
Bests,
Jason
Comments (21)
How does things look for steam least a update i can tell everyone :) please and thank you
Well the steam always gets the season once it's finished, so it will take a while, but fingers crossed it will be done by the end of the year.
The 5XXX series have serious power delivery issues. They tend to burn the PS supply connectors to the cards. Check every once in a while that every thing is ok.
Thank you for the headsup. I'll keep that in mind.
Hey royal candy keep up the awesome work , how many episodes are planned for the finale season as so much Needs to be done for finale season for multiple paths of Main LI's and solo paths ex : them finding about their respective relationships and erwin and all?
I haven't reworked the plan yet. As soon as I finish this episode I'll redo the plan and let you guys know!
yo jason she is looking deferent today like a mature woman
Might be the haristyle.
Thanks.... 🤟
Thanks for the update, Keep up the great work Jason
Any news on android support
Hello my name is wise I'm the developer who takes care of the android part of royalcandy of the games for now I'm waiting when the game update is ready I'll do the mobile version that you will find here on Patreon of royalcandy and mine I hope I have expressed myself well have a nice day
I'd be willing to purchase some boxes of " Royal O's " breakfast cereal once they are available :) even if the cereal looks more like flakes than O's, but whatever good subliminal advertising trick....good looking chick on the box and a damn fine hottie shown getting ready to enjoy them :) sex sells
Only after I've done the box design I have realized that I don't have any asset for pouring O's only flakes, but I hoped nobody would realize. Guess I was wrong!
Doing beautifully as always (reading Patreon posts fuels that 😁)!!! MY ENERGY AND MOOD ARE BLAZING AND HIGH AS ALWAYS 🔥!!! I'M BRIGHT AS THE SUN 🌞(hope my positive e-ner-gy reaches out to eve-ry-one *zap zap* 😁)!!! *whiste* Nice on the new upgrade! All good, Jason... take your time working on this beautiful masterpiece 😛! We know you'll always deliver! I'm willing to wait forever until the update comes out! I LOVE NMM THAT MUCH 😍❤!!! I'll take these Weekly Renders off you, though (always, thank you 😋)! TRIS 🥰!!! "Need some milk with that 😘? I GOT SOME 🥰!" Thanks for the update, Jason 😁👍🏻! Stay safe, stay blessed, and in PERFECT health, everyone! Have an amazing and beautiful week! I'll catch you all—ON THE NEXT ONE ✌🏻😉!!!
Noice, almost 3x the 'speed'. Well a bit less than 3x but yeah. So, how nice it would be if that meant updates are done 2-3 timex faster ;-) One thing I honestly dont understand though, why retire the old render rig? Even if it's "slow" in comparison, if it runs along with the new rig, wouldn't that stil add more renders done per hour/day? Maybe I'm missing something here, or maybe it's some BS about licensing, ie can only use whatever software on X amount of computers. Instead of 3 renders every 4minutes it would be 4 per every 4 minutes. 15 more per hour, 90 more per 6hours. Well, what do I know, Jason mah dude hopefully knows better lol ;) Either way, sweet with two 5090s, yikes. Certainly hope this will speed up 'devtime' for the remaining updates nonetheless .
Well I still write and pose with the same speed, but at least what I pose during the day, will be rendered by morning when I wake up and on top of that I don't have to wait 2/3 days for one animation to be rendered. Hopefully I can render any animation in less than 12h. The reason why I'm retiring the 1080s is because the machine has been failing for the last year. I keep fixing it every time I'm starting to render animations and on top of that the 1080s run really hot. So in the room where I keep the machines even with an AC turned on 24/7 sometimes it's getting hot there, so having one more machine that doesn't bring much to the table except heat, is not a great idea, beside trying to keep all 3 machines synced up all the time is a daunting task. It's easier with only two machines.
Nice to see the weekly reports of how it proceeds instead to me with the part of android always difficult 😭
Nice update, thanks. Tris is smokin' as always.
Congrats on the upgrades Dev! New setups usually come with some rough roads, but thankfully you have them solved. As always thank you for the weekly image, and a great week, RC team and supporters!
Right on Jason! I just know you're going to knock it out of the park! I can't wait! Thank you for all the hard work!