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Ok, I understand that people get impatient cause the next version isn't out yet cause they are maybe accustomed that game updates are being released every month. I'm very sorry and I'm working as hard as I can every second of the day. But please consider: I've calculated the amount of renders for the next version. It's about 480! And if you know my demo then you know of what kind of renders we are talking about! And the quality of the new version will even be a step forward! So, can you imagine how long it takes to set up and render 480 diverse scenes where you pay attention to every little detail like hair movement, perfect pose, perfect cloth fit, perfect expression, perfect lighting, perfect camera position, body squeezes, breast movement, cloth movement, diverse additional effects etc. etc.? Scenes with background, with people, cars etc. Scenes which have to be perfectly adopted to the story. Then I am also editing every room and place manually and compose everything together. And then I also have to render this all, what takes also a lot of time and cause many scenes are very large (over 10GB) I have to play around with the textures of many scenes and edit much so it can fit in the VRAM (and other tricks)! Loading such scenes takes also some time etc. etc. etc.. I mean I managed to create almost 400 of this kind of renders in about 6 weeks. Considering the effort of every render this is not so bad I think. Then edit in photoshop and then also optimize the files! In these approximately 480 very ambitious, high quality renders and scenes is the effort of about 4-8 updates of other games where you get updates after just few weeks, without much text, sound and not so detailed and elaborate renders/scenes (many simply use characters with transparent background or simple photos! This is a minute job!), especially not such a quantity! And then I also have to program it all, translate and add sound to it! So, everything's not that simple and quick like many people maybe think. Remember: My goal is to create an unique, beautiful, high quality game, reaching a new level. And I'm developing it all alone next to college and a job. So, please understand that it takes some time and I'm working on it every day! With a better hardware I could speed it up to maybe 30-35%. But for that I just need more support and trust of course.
I still can't say when the next update will come out. Unfortunately not this year anymore, that's for sure now. I am almost done with the scenes and renders. Maybe 1 more week and I can start with programming. Programming and translation will then also take about 2 weeks. The content is also difficult to estimate now before I've started programming. But I would estimate it maybe 40-45% of the demo. But this is not a fact. I'm very sorry for the delay. The next version turned out bigger and more complex than I've expected!
I still can't say when the next update will come out. Unfortunately not this year anymore, that's for sure now. I am almost done with the scenes and renders. Maybe 1 more week and I can start with programming. Programming and translation will then also take about 2 weeks. The content is also difficult to estimate now before I've started programming. But I would estimate it maybe 40-45% of the demo. But this is not a fact. I'm very sorry for the delay. The next version turned out bigger and more complex than I've expected!
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