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He won't updates ALL images, the later ones are already made with his new models and light model.The clothing for instance is rendered separately if I'm not mistaken.
I am not entirely sure how he renders, but the layers always also include part of the character for smooth transitions/borders. Positioning the clothing parts might be more work than just letting the whole image render. Also when rendering he doesn't position small images. The layers all have a fixed size with most of the area being transparent. Debugging would be hell otherwise.
Also there are layers for characters posing differently. Lisa and Olivia by the pool, Lisa and Max on the bed have also changing poses and there are many more.
Let's take Lisa for example, when you open her door.
There are about 8-10 different poses I think. Shocked Front+Back / Covering Front+Back and depending on which part of her clothing is missing, she holds her hands differntly when covering.
There is the fully nude version, bath towel with optional headwrap, red bikini top, red bikini bottom, jeans, shirt, bathrobe, panties, bra ...
I think he renders each pose with each set of clothing once, then cuts out what he needs for differences, getting up to three layers (top + bottom + head) out of one rendering.
... and still thgat's a lot of renderings.
I think these are made with the new models already however, so he does not have to recreate them. I believe what will be upgraded are mostly the very old pics: Lisa in the bath, Alice at the pool or sunbathing and so on.
The new version so far looks, as if it's target was to give this game a new distinctive DNA, make it more different from the original.
Who knows ... maybe the critics get their will and the new version will be simplier than the old one with less variations. I would find that sad, but in the end it might increase productivity.