Status update Episode 10
I started the week posing static renders and finished a longer Jill scene. After this, I revisited the planning phase for episode 10, trying to map out the remaining events on the episode timeline and plan some more.
I checked what I'd done and what was left to do, and visually seeing this progress made me realize that episode 10 would be another big one. I believe I have mapped out close to everything I want in the episode now, which feels great.
Then I spent part of the week writing dialogue and coding for the phone and generally had a very good flow.
I've done a lot so far, especially when you account for most of the mini-games being completed and added to the episode, but I have plenty of manual labor left.
I counted the segments on the timeline and found that I have created 29/51 (57%) parts and have 22/51 (43%) parts left to create.
Of those remaining 22 parts, 4 are free-roam events (two small ones, one medium-sized, and one long), and the rest are lewd and normal scenes. The parts range from short to long, and some include multiple different scenes and variations.
I've been bumping my render and animation quality in Season 3, but my render power has more or less stayed the same for quite some time now. I decided to invest a lot more into hardware and am currently in the process of upgrading my systems with 4090s and building brand-new rigs.
It's unreal to me that I can do this at this scale. My thoughts go back to the first year of development when I had a single PC with one 1080 Ti and had to wait months to afford more RAM. I'm immensely thankful for being able to do this upgrade, and it's all thanks to you guys.
At the moment, I have upgraded my systems with +50% extra render power. Shortly, I plan to increase that to roughly 90% total extra power compared to before the upgrade. This means these upgrades will almost double my render speed, pushing the bottleneck further toward manual labor - which is me sitting by the PC working.
The upgrade I did this week immediately affected my render queue. I have 0 static renders in the queue for the first time in months, and only 26 animations remain. I believe these animations will be done within 1-2 weeks.
The good thing now is knowing that the renders and animations I pose will render twice as fast. This puts more pressure on my manual work but alleviates the waiting time at the end of the development cycle.
As I already see results from the PC upgrade, I will return to posing animations next week.
I love the game development right now, and the hardest thing for me is to choose what I want to work with every day because there are a lot of fun scenes left to create. Let's fucking go!
Have a nice weekend
Dr PinkCake
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indeed, let’s fucking go!! -hyped
As above new to all this, just finished seasons 1 n 2 from steam, will season 3 not be released on steam ?
It will be released when it is finished. You can become a Patreon member and when you pay for a certain tier, you can play the episodes when they are finished. Episode 9 was finished a few months ago and Patreon members who had the tier were able to download and play it.
okay I'm a bit new to this, I got on here because, love the dik game lol idk how all this works , can we play season 3 on here or what i just got me a pc so i dont know how to operate all of this. let me know plz
Episode 9 is the newest upgrade, and episode 10 is under development. Once it's ready, it'll be released and ready to be downloaded.
Keep up the great work Doc U are the Gold Standard for this genre of games 🤘🤘🤘
Dr. Pinkcake, do you intend to have the DIK's participate in a Spring Break episode?
Obligatory beach episode?
I hope episode 10 will soon be up and available to download as i been waiting eagerly for more content :)
Yo, I'm stoked that you're pumping out this clone series. It's dope. For the next set could you clone yourself and all your computers? If we do it enough times we could get into exponential progress XD
You deserve several awards for what you have accomplished with BAD. It's simply a masterpiece that I will be front an center for along the entire magical ride. P.s. "We need an entire game after this series all about being married to Jill Royce" - Men of culture
I really love this energy! I'm getting fucking hype for episode 10!
nice and great job on coming this far
You are a true software engineer, my man. You do you and create the world for us to live in - keep the ambition high and find opportunities to optimize. Great work!
Does this mean that your crazy render times you've referenced in the past (48 days for a single animation) will be literally cut in half? I'd be curious to hear if the new render power actually leads to that much improvement!
It depends on the hardware of the PC slave that render the animation in question. But all things rendered over time, yes, time would almost be cut in half. Then you have other factors to consider when you're rendering. As I mentioned, I have increased my render quality. This means more time is spent per frame/render. Comparing the time it takes to render one image from, let's say, episode 5 and episode 10, we're looking at a 3-fold increase in time for the latter. But for the quality of how things are now, the upgrade would almost make it double speed. If I push render quality higher, this gain in speed is slowly lost with each upgrade I make. I don't know how high I will keep pushing it. But I'm happy at the moment with my current settings for Season 3. They haven't changed since the Interlude.
As a massive PC nerd I'd love to see the systems you're running/building!
Goddamn this guy is good. Keep it up Doc!
Fantastic update, man! It's great to hear about the new rigs and your excitement is contagious. Your work ethic is legendary, so the fact that there will be less arbitrary wait times with renders means that we'll be getting the same quality product potentially even sooner. You deserve it DPC. Have a great week!
Thats great news, however I still say TAKE YOUR TIME!!! LOL we aint goin nowhere. I dare you to add more content to the great content you have given us!! LOL
Such an awesome update to read DPC! was really intrigued by this quote here "Currently in the process of upgrading my systems with 4090s " i would love to hear what brand you are looking at, I want to upgrade mine too for things related also to 3D modeling (Blender in my case) :) but overall awesome update thanks for catching up! ^^
That's amazing! Have a lovely weekend DPC
Thanks for the update. My mind can't comprehend all of the computer upgrade stuff but I DO understand that the novel will benefit from it. Thank you for all of your hard work and all that you do. I'm patiently waiting for the next episode with baited breath. Enjoy your weekend DPC.
For the next FAQ I'd really like to know what your energy bills look like lol
We will have to get him some solar panels
Amazing update, Have a great weekend!
Great to hear! Glad you were able to upgrade your rig to better assist in your development process Doc. Looking forward to episode 10!
Thanks for the update! Excited for the next episode.
PC upgrades are awesome and feel good. Love this for you!
I soo can't wait! Thanks for all the updates and hard work :)
RTX 4090s are beastly cards. I got onat launch and have to limit it for some things. It's a 4k monster 👻 👽. Keep up the good work
I thing now that the story in the game has evolved so much with all those branches and different scenes for each of them it's only natural that the episodes will get bigger longer and more complicated, personally I like that very much and I hope you still have fun developing it !
Awesome to hear! +90% must feel amazing
Dame, all your enthousiasme is good news for us. Can't wait for the next episode. Keep up the great work
Great
I'm glad you are having so much fun lol
DPC = GOAT
Cheers, Doc. Have a nice weekend.
Thanks for the update Doc have e nice weekend
Awesome to hear man! I'm jealous of the upgrades, but since you will be providing us with even more quality without having to sacrifice time to render it, I'm sure I'll get over the jealousy. :P
Let's fucking goooooo! New rig, Big Episode, Better Quality, Quite a dent done on the to-do list, DPC loves what he's doing. Bros, today is a good fucking day.
Yeah man, I always worry about the Dr due to him doing this himself but it's great to hear he's at a good pace and happy with it.
I guess your update is one of the few good things I had this week.
nice
Love your profile picture 😉
Have a good weekend too DR!!
Thanks for the update Doc. Have a great weekend