Not just 60fps animations, but do people care about non lewd animations? I doubt many do. Those animations are very simplistic (like in ep9), I just don't think they even add any value to the game really.
I do think those animations help set the tone, they also don't take as much time to set up as sex scenes. It's mostly just camera movement and very little motion otherwise.
Not true, check this report from August, thee we were informed that 237 animations were done, this week the animations should finish tomorrow or wesnesday, the final number should be 331 according to mpa71 data.
He doesnt even need to do 60 fps, interpolation works fine, there are even mods that already do this.
Very true, making a scene takes much more time than rendering. Writing, choosing assets, planing and posing must be considered.
Like you said, its eye candy that could have been achived with interpolation. I respect DPC since his game is my favorite, but you can't deny he fucked up with that decision (60fps).
I'd say some are good additions, my favorite one is from the MC finally getting the DIK jacket, that animation felt earned.
Very true, DPC really should build more PCs to speed things up a bit.
Non-lewd animations can add to the experience, but the ones in BaDIK are, tbh, an amateur hour. The kind of thing you see people make when they learn that omg, the camera can be moved around. Doing it in 60 fps isn't really going to change it for the better.
Thing is though, he already has what, 8 machines? 9? I don't know anymore. But eventually, adding more machines will require him to to upgrade his power junction box to an industrial one. I mean can you imagine how much power he's already sucking down from the local power grid with all of his 4090ti's? those cards are power hungry whores...
Ok, I didn't exactly mean all of them. I agree, getting jacket was good. Also minigames like pancakes is fine. I was more talking stuff like animated bear drinking in I believe was outro scene in ep8 or 9, can't remember, where it could simply be a render of people with beers in their hands, it would change nothing about the tone at all. There are quite a few examples I thought were completely unnecessary or even thought they would be better as just renders, but I can't remember them all now, it's been some time since I played.
It's not really about the workstation but more about man power. At the end of the day its just one dude making those thousands of renders and hundreds of animations. Each episode has increased significantly both in terms of these, longer animations ( he recently has decided to go for 60fps ones).
Do we have any clue how many render machines DPC has? Honestly a 19" rack with several render servers should be achievable with the budget he has, add good 10gbit ethernet and a dope workstation. He should be Golden and basically be able to render anything he does within a reasonable time frame.
Does he have his render farm at home? You can get it upgraded as a consumer, but it's rather limited when compared to businesses.
It's quite expensive. Looking at irendering, it's $42 per hour for iray. Or $33.6 per hour if he rents the server per week. Which would be $5644.80 per week.
If you have to lead a team when that's really not in your wheelhouse and maintain your creative vision as well as your individual creativity. That could very well result in a much worse game than what we're getting now. Just look at what happened with FreshWomen.
That's not what I meant. Right now we are waiting about a month because of 60 fps animations, probably at 400 animations the wait time will increase to 2 months. Besides DPС himself says that rendering 60 fps animations is slightly faster than before, that is essentially nothing has changed.
It's the weird glossy teeth that look more like porcelain.
I can't say with 100% certainty, but a few times he's made announcements like the one below. I can't seem to find the status update where he mentions how many machines in total he's got rendering. But all indications seem to point at he's rendering everything under his own roof.
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It was a pretty shitty week regarding health, but I feel much better now.
As you saw, I completed the PC upgrades earlier this week, and everything is rendering smoothly.
I've mostly been focusing on animations this week, trying to stack up more animations in the render queue, and I completed another lewd scene while doing so. I'm closing in on the 200 posed animations milestone, which feels nice. The new PCs have finished rendering several longer animations pretty damned fast too.
I've written some dialogue and posed static renders too. I also played a bit of the episode and added more music and sound effects.
I'm working through a free-roam event, going from scene to scene and creating the art. Today I prepared most of the characters for the scenes, and I will continue to work on the environments to be able to pose loads of static renders in a go next week.
Have a nice weekend
Dr PinkCake
Chad is a rotten cunt. He was just using Sage as material, being a fucking coward. He stole at least a year of her life. He couldn't even stand up for her in that scene when Dawe said, "Look, that bitch is running back." What? For such words, Dawe had to kiss the concrete while lying face down in the next second. Even if he doesn't care about Sage (and he doesn't care), she's officially his ex-girlfriend and such disrespect can't be tolerated. But Dave, in his words, is a “good guy.” Negative IQ, hello.
You can't render 18+ content on most render farms.Also I don't think his current setup is weaker than render farms. It would be easier to just buy a few more computers and connect them to a shared network.
I also wonder how it's supposed to work with assets you bought, can you even use such a server if you're using assets you didn't create yourself?
I mean 15 month wait is pretty absurd as well. If I had to pay for the game (I did support him for a while when I first started playing years ago), I definitely wouldn't even bother playing it until entire game was out and then make one time purchase and play the whole thing. But well, not my place to judge I guess as I'm not a paying customer anymore and it looks like it's working for him, considering the amount of patreon supporters he has.
