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All week was about posing animations and writing. I alternated between them to get some day-to-day variation.
The animations I'm posing right now are not only plenty but also tricky to pose for reasons I won't spoil. I expected these animations to render slower than the others in the render queue. Surprisingly, they render almost 50% faster - making it even harder for me to keep up manually- but I'm hanging in there.
Regarding writing, I went back to plan the episode more, focusing on a few branches. I'd say that two out of the five major branches have been planned in rough strokes. Another week of similar kind of work is ahead of me.
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Dr PinkCake
So nothing new, but didnt expected something. I appreciate it a lot that DPC is posting weekly DEV reports, even if there is nothing to tell. Most DEVs doesnt do any reports, or maybe only two month with false information and ETAs they cant reach. And if there are important numbers to show, DPC does that. You have to give him credit for that cause it should be a given, but its not, DPC is more or less the only DEV doing that. Heck, he gives such precise numbers out so its even possible for some smart users to predict precisely when a release of an episode is to be expected before DPC can even think about it
But back to the report. So the render slaves are rendering about 50% faster as he expected now... that is... strange? How? Why?
Dont get me wrong, that is good news, i guess. But... they dont work faster just like that. Something has to be changed for that. Better hardware? Not that DPC has mentioned it after getting the RTX 4090s running... dont know anymore when that took place (september? august? something like that) Software upgrades? He didnt mentioned that either, what he usually does if its significant and even if he does not mention it... many users here would know something in that regard already.
So... the render queue is getting emtied much faster, without reason? Mysterious
And now he faces the problem i was afraid about.
As i mentioned two weeks ago, i think DPCs was building his work-shedule around the animation queue for episode 9 and 10. He was able to get 1 animation rendered per day by the PC slaves. This gives a very good frame to plan a work-shedule for. Posing one day animations to fill the queue so the slaves have a queue for about 2 weeks, use those 2 weeks for other things... fill up the queue again, and so on until the end. Like this he doesnt even need to work 8 hours a day to get eveything done, cause the animation sets the pace anyway.
But that has changed now somehow... we will see how this goes on... worst case, it could lead to stress. And that would lead to a way more delayed episode than waiting on an animation queue full of pointless animations, thats for sure. Stressed people dont work good, nobody does.
