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Hey guys, hope you're all doing great! In the last devlog, I mentioned the environment I was working on. It's not finished yet, I'm just hopping around between rewrites and rendering for a few days, but it's nearly finished. I'm concerned about the toll it takes on my VRAM. I'm using a 3080 with 10 GB VRAM btw. Sometimes it just doesn't show any preview at all in Iray. I tried using instances, but I think it won't be enough. I used my 3060 with 12GB VRAM to render these heavy scenes, but a month ago its motherboard got shorted due to frequent power outages. So I just compressed most of the textures to 2k to render them on this PC, and it worked for one scene set. Here are a few preview scenes.
All textures are compressed to 2k (technobabble over), and say hi to
Finn and
Finola, aka
FiFi.
But I still haven't tried it with the farm environment. I'll let you know how it goes, or just see the environment yourself in the upcoming prologue. Now this takes us to the next topic: What the fuck do you mean by Prologue? again? Well, I've been telling you guys I'm writing everything from the start as I set the scenes more clearly. I salvaged what was there in the last prologue and recreated it in the right way. which is based on what I wrote at the very beginning of making Blairewood, some OG guys might've seen some old previews which didn't make the prologue, the one with the butterfly and all that. Yeah, I polished the writing on those also recreated the whole scenes from back then. I promise, this prologue will be bigger, better, and free. I think you guys have seen like 1.5 parts of scenes in the previous release that I added to this new prologue. I totally added 5 scenes in 8 different environments in this prologue. Here's the re-rendered comparison.
Old: I wanted her to look lean but not emaciated...She looks so malnourished in some renders on the old prologue, so I redid her renders with some changes, which are most of the renders from this scene.
New: She looks healthier. I like chubby-cheeked Claire more. And the most important thing she has a nice cup for her coffee, and I changed her pajama pants to cutie patootie shorts. You can even see the logo there.
And I'm re-rendering the School bathroom scenes, too. One of our early supporters mentioned that the characters don't look like high schoolers. Thank you, by the way. Here are some notable changes you can expect from that scene: outfit material change, and characters will look like high schoolers, of course, a few more renders will be added, and no changes were made to the jumpscare. And these were the only scenes added to the new prologue from the rework.
And here is some bad news: I'm stopping Wallpapers for a while, or maybe permanently. I'm still debating whether to stop now or create some more this year and then stop next year, so we'll see. I had planned to release a new prologue for Halloween as a surprise, but God had other plans. There's a storm here, which is causing power outages. I can't render the scenes, and I don't wanna lose this pc too. However, this gave me a lot of time to write, and I'm halfway through chapter 2, so that's something good that came out of it. The new prologue will be released by next month if everything goes right. So that's all for now.
Peace.
