what i wrote within the post above yours:
There are scenes for every combo of the girls - sure lots of paths lead to lots of nearly similar scenes, which need time to render nevertheless.
Such like:
- D and F
- D, Elena and F
- D, Jennifer and F
- D, Georgina and F
- D, Elena, Jennifer and F
- D, Elena, Georgina and F
This is just one example where you need to script 6 different sex scenes just to get ONE done (for all paths)
Then there were different coco-party scenes (depending on the path(s) you are .... and so on
Sure, it's just a swap of assets, but still the renders have to be rendered.
And AGAIN: They didn't work 2 months on DMD, they only worked 4 weeks on it. The other time got their other game "Sunshine Love".
Finally there will be NO new variants - there will be endings. This update was all about the coco party and final build up for the now following endings.
Been told several times before.
I know exactly how long it takes to render things, and I also know Dots team has enough money to have 10 computers, each with one or 2 3090 GPU. So I guess 10 comps with a 3090 would not be a good investment, but I would be surprised if they don't have at least five, or better yet : one or 2 computers but their own render farm rig with 4x 3090 or an A100 or whatever pro GPUs they want to render. So render time at this point is not the same as for a beginner team. They have what's needed to make it fast.
So I know about the other game too, and I know about all the pose swapping they have to do, but this time it was all : make a scene, light it, pose it once with the biggest numbers of characters, send to render, remove a char, render, swap one, render, remove another... it was like factory work this time. They only had to pose most scenes once, then it's just swapping. And don't forget they also re-used a lot of poses from previous updates, they only change camera angles. So that's even more time saved. Whatever it was in reality, it really felt like 2 weeks and a half of work at best.
but yeah, Timestamps team is good. Maybe they should be in your signature block instead of this game
Yeah that's just lazyness and remembering I vaguely struggled last time I set up my sig and so I tend to keep it like it is in fear that I will fuck it up and waste 30mn on it before I succeed. But you're right I should do it one day. Then there's also the fact that DmD is kinda my first love in VNs, and I love D's character, even if the game has been 50% disappointing lately. And this smiling dog just cracks me up.
![Big grin :D :D](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Thanks to the guy who made that sig.