I bet it pleases not only me, but all the fans of this series, that you two actually think ahead of what's coming up next. Can't wait when we finally get to the female Shepard/Liara + EDI/Tali scenes, like together-together
Can you elaborate on that? The common misconception is that with the technological advancement the development process should keep up. Although hardware/software keeps improving, so does quality of renders, which negates the positive feedback. You're not the first dev saying that it's not the case as posing characters takes a significant amount of time.
I just wanna quote your answer on the scene creation and rendering every time some cry baby starts mentioning milking and other nonsense. Basically, why not only BJ, but the majority of 3D artists can't release content faster without losing quality?
It’s a bit much to explain, but rendering either uses resources from your CPU (not a great idea) or your GPU. So depending on how old it is, just a basic camera shot, depending on the amount of details you set it for, can go from minutes to hours.
Can’t speak for SFM, but Blender has a variety of settings that can make just poses take quite a while to pop out. And animation is like that, but tenfold, as it’s now moving pictures so to speak.
You could outsource it to a render farm, but as I’ve seen from other artists like Slayyed.coom, they are not always reliable and can sometimes screw up the work. And as mentioned, the rendering process takes a ton of resources, so unless ya got another computer, you won’t be doing much else on the rendering one.
If you want something fast, it’ll be short and low quality. You want something good, it’ll take time. A good comparison would be Opiumud. They put out lengthy content on a regular basis, but they suffer from really bad audio sync and the overall quality isn’t great either.
I used to be like those people that asked for the little things to add or why can’t it be faster. And then when I got my new computer, I started learning Blender myself and my eyes were opened. This shit ain’t easy.
I wish it were as simple as point A to point B. Maybe we’ll get some fancy VR tech in the future that lets us pose them like mannequins xD. But until you’re moving every piece of the bodies, making sure everything lines, avoiding clipping as much as possible, and hoping to god you don’t see something during the render you missed, or that something doesn’t line up right, or in the worst case, the program crashed and you hadn’t saved in a while because things like SFM are so old, auto save isn’t a thing.
So…yeah. Be appreciative of what you’re getting for free anyway, and don’t stress the artist
Does anyone have a work-in-progress version of Liara's growth 2?
He’s taking a deserved break right now. And for the record this project entails redoing the first part he put out years ago.
