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Dev update
Hey hey folks, how´s life?
I hope it´s treating you well.
Can´t say the same for myself bc since i updated the Nvidia graphics driver DAZ Studio constantly crashes and sometimes won´t even start.
That´s annoying af and keeps me from working on 0.8 for a day now. Those drivers have been wonky for months now and i´m considering to make a fresh new install of the drivers to have a clean install again.
Before that crashing started i was fiddling around with the skin textures of the G8 characters. Most of them come in 4k sizes but that´s awfully filling up the VRAM. So i decided to look up if i can just resize them textures( They´re all just jpg´s after all)
Didn´t had to look for very long bc the first search result just said "image->resize".
Went through all the maps used by the characters, copied them, resized them and applied ´em again. And you know what?
It barely makes a difference for the look of the characters. Sure, bump maps have to adjusted but that´s no big deal. Tried the same for some load heavy clothes and that worked too, for most of them. Especially the suit Trish is wearing in 0.7 and further in 0.8 was very demeaning of my GPU. But with the resize it´s manageable to work with again.
I try to release 0.8 at around the tenth of february, just like every month before inspite the DAZ problems.
In other good news i added an android version of Softlinxxx 0.7 in the release post for those playing on long rides to work or waiting at the doctor´s office.
Stay charged!