VN Ren'Py Friends in Need [Ch.1 Remake v0.25] [NeonGhosts]

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Elduriel

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MeSoThorny said:
Guys, please don't cancel me but I just want to ask, does Mason path involve a scenario where Mason accepts us and we Mason but in a hetero-relationship?

I am right now liking him as a friend but just wanted to ask that if there is a opportunity to make Mason wife, and I have no issues if Mason is to be kept as trans/male LI.
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you have the option to treat her as girl if you want (at least during the bj scene, can't say for future updates)
 
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MeSoThorny said:
Guys, please don't cancel me but I just want to ask, does Mason path involve a scenario where Mason accepts us and we Mason but in a hetero-relationship?

I am right now liking him as a friend but just wanted to ask that if there is a opportunity to make Mason wife, and I have no issues if Mason is to be kept as trans/male LI.
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No, you can force her to act like a woman during sex but she is basically Ellen Page.
 
Machete

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MeSoThorny said:
Guys, please don't cancel me but I just want to ask, does Mason path involve a scenario where Mason accepts us and we Mason but in a hetero-relationship?

I am right now liking him as a friend but just wanted to ask that if there is a opportunity to make Mason wife, and I have no issues if Mason is to be kept as trans/male LI.
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I don't see how this question could be ground for deletion but i had a lot of post deleted by admins and i have no clue why, so don't rely on me too much :)

BTW, so far so good you have the options to respect Mason's gender identity (nice guy option) or behave to them as to a girl (jerk option). I think you can go dark path or nice path in either cases. Of course Mason prefers to be considered a guy.

Since they are a main LI i presume a solo ending with them is on the plate. I don't prersonally see the probleme to marry Mason as a man. I think it's more likely than to have a change of mind from Mason now wanting to be a woman.

As usual, we'll see how NeonGhosts wants to play it, we have no much elements so far.
 
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Elduriel said:
you have the option to treat her as girl if you want (at least during the bj scene, can't say for future updates)
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But that is pretty pathetic one. So much shaming. I mean if it was softer and down the road Mason would go that despite all the love she is not comfortable with the biological assignment or she sticks with her bio/sex, yeah, I would have chosen that option. But right now, that option stinks
 
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I'm assuming you mean my rendering setup? If so, I spent around $1700 or something obnoxious like that on my PC. But, it's important to note a few things.
  • I bought it during the pandemic, when crypto prices were climbing sky high and as a result mid-tier GPUs (and PC parts as a whole) were at an exorbitant price.
  • I bought it (from
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    ) rather than build it, because it'd been a decade+ since I built a PC, and I wasn't in the mood to re-learn everything. Plus, comparison-shopping for parts revealed that it really wouldn't save me much money to build it myself. And I got a one-year warranty on it. So, no regrets.
  • A comparable system to what I have can now be had from the same company for about $1,000.
  • My system really isn't that great, especially compared to what a lot of the top-tier AVN folks use. The GPU is limited on VRAM, it's air-cooled instead of water-cooled, I skimped on the storage (which is becoming a problem as my Daz library grows), and the PSU needs upgraded if I want to slap a new GPU into it. But, it's served me well, and I plan to upgrade it after the release of the next chapter.
Now, when you factor in things like Daz assets, paying an actual CPA to handle my taxes and write-offs, modest increases in electric bills, office furniture, etc. the cost is somewhere around $6,000. But, my supporters have been very good to me, so it's been more than worth it.
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No, I mean like an actual remote data center with thousands of most powerful gpu's. I am not sure how good is Daz with remote development and how much faster would it be, but people who do ML or gaming often use such services. Basically, you can have a Chromebook and a shared computer at some huge data center, you pay them monthly, and they render your stuff much faster.

People wrote about it here: reddit.com/r/Daz3D/s/S3WQ8HMlgN
 
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folkkfolkk said:
No, I mean like an actual remote data center with thousands of most powerful gpu's.
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Well. Slow down :D First of all even a small datacenter is a company startup level of investment. Usually when you buy from a service dealer you buy virtual machines, like if you buy an Azure service from Microsoft. You buy the specifics at a cost, then how this resources are allocated on the phisical machines it's their problem. They only assure that the setup will work as requested, with the requested stats and sufficient redundancies not to lose your data or stop the service for significant time (and it still stops eventually, luckily for me or i wouldn't have a job). About the cost? I have no the slightest idea, but i daresay it's not cheap, judging on how our clients (which are rather big companies) cry everytime we inform them that we need to allocate more diskspace on a VM, or it needs more ram.

What a dev like NeonGhosts need is a few local PCs optimized for rendering, which means, as far a possible, multiple multicore CPUs, dedicated hardware for 3D processing and 32+ gb ram and 2 pretty big SSD disks.

At least, my guess, i have never known much about rendering, apart than it's heavy on the volume of CPU operations and a few bases of numeric calculation optimization from back at university. And a lot or Ram and fast disks are always essentials for a machine to 'work fast'. It's a matter of how often and how quick the operating system goes to read from the disk while executing a program. The more ram you have the less you need to swap pages, the quicker the HD the fastest it recovers the informations.

Also i think a linux system might be quicker (since it has a lot less crap to do and a lot less garbage loaded in ram) but i don't know if there are good linux version of necessary software.
 
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As someone who has considered making a game in the past, you really need multiple systems and a proper workflow between writing, coding, render setup, rendering and post processing images.

You need to consider managing your scene size since vram capacity limits you. But as important as it is to have a system that can render things quickly, the true limiter in my opinion is setting up your scenes, animations and clothing etc. That alone can take hours and requires proper story boarding and planning.

As an example, I have a server cluster with 8 GPUs that I use for other purposes, that can spit out a high quality scene in about 5-10 mins but then you need to keep up with setting up scenes and animations to keep the cluster working hard for you.

But anyways, Brittani is best girl.
 
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speaking of evil helpers, can't wait until we see Tessa again :sneaky: she has a great 3d model and im curious how dark her dark side really is :devilish: probably gonna be a super, super minor character with very little content, but still :giggle:
 
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