Law School Episode 4 - Progress update #11

Hello everyone,

Last week was close to being a disaster, but thankfully I engaged in a bum off Saturday and man did it save my week.

I was still dealing with my gym injury, which is finally starting to heal. On top of that, my internet kept disconnecting (my relays weren’t communicating properly), so I lost a lot of time trying to fix it. Even as I write this, it has crashed again. The issue is in the fact that some textures, assets, and the scenes files are loaded in the synology, and without internet, my synology doesn't work, which impacts my render computers that can't move on to the next scene. So I was constantly interrupting my work to fix it, which stops my flow.

To make things worse, I was also hitting that scene fatigue since I spent so much time working wiht the same LI. Overall, things were not looking good.

Despite that, I managed to finish the lewd scene, the cuddles, and with that, wrap up DAY 3 on Friday. Between the date, the lewd, the cuddles, and everything else, that section took me about 16 days. By the end, I was more than ready to move on from that scene and that LI.

Saturday turned everything around. I joined a bum off with other devs and managed to complete about 120 renders in 24 hours. That really saved my week, and I was happy with the result. On Sunday I was tired and still fighting internet issues, so I didn’t get much done. Here are the current numbers for this episode:

• Static renders: 1,732

• Animations: 36

• Story content: 28 scenes written (23,581 words)

That’s an additional 171 renders and 8 animations, which I’ll gladly take considering the circumstances.

Right now, the queue is pretty full. I have about 300 renders and 16 animations waiting. Since I’ll only be away until the end of the week, the queue probably won’t be cleared before I return, which is actually a good thing.

I’ve now moved on to DAY 4, which is the second to last day of this update and also the biggest one. While I won’t be able to work on 3D content during the week, I plan to keep writing whenever I can, whether on the plane or in the mornings. My hope is to finish writing this chapter while on holiday so I can focus fully on 3D work once I’m back. Timing looks good for an update in 2025, which was always my goal for episode 4.

So we keep moving forward. I’ll use these holidays to recharge and come back ready to finish this episode.

There won’t be an update next Monday since I don’t expect to have much to share. Today I'll be preparing the render queues, setting up long distance control of the PCs, and yet again, trying to fix my internet issue (BOYCOTT ASUS!!)

I’ll see you all in 14 days, and I hope you have a great week.

MisterMaya