No firm dates becuase 2 of the setback issues (of the four setbacks) aren't the type you can throw dates at.
I took a minute and went and grabbed quotes:
The two rendering issues:
"Out of the "big four" problems I mentioned earlier this week, two have already been dealt with. Trisha, for both chapters, has now been fully re-rendered. More than that, both scenes ended up slightly extended and are now a whopping 5,733 and 3,745 renders respectively giving you a full five minutes of animated Trisha goodness. Not only are the scenes now longer but having been forced to change the lighting, they also look so much better as well. The incredible thing, and the thing that is making me slightly giddy, is that by throwing the powah of the 4090 and the 3090 at the problem, I managed to make close to
10,000 renders in just ten days. That's just staggering from my perspective.
The only thing left for me to do for Trisha is to re-run the stills. But that's a nothing job. If it takes me a day, I'll have been slacking off (
all I have to do is load the files into the 4090, swap out the lighting set and hit render. Which with the 4090's heft I'm talking just over a minute per render...). So with the refreshed animations built, a quick quality check, and I can get those to the VA, add some SFX and it's job done."
One of the two other issues:
"The second problem resolved was Amanda's coding. I've unwound the overly complex code that was in there and defaulted to something more traditional via menu picks.
It took a bit of time, and I need to throw it at the testers still
(I'm happy enough with it now and she's behaving - or at least as well as Amanda would), but in essence it's done. It took me most of the week as it is a surprisingly big scene under the hood coming in close to 80 per cent of the size of Chapter One. That doesn't mean you or your MC will be stuck with her for ages, however. You can go in, have dinner, do your social obligations and get out again. The reason it's so large is for those of you who wish to linger and you can end up talking to her for some time (
and also get horribly drunk to if you wish...)."
Problem four is a strip poker minigame with (I think) Chris, It's a knottier problem because it has to use a random number generator and, as mentioned, Ren'Py is shite for this. The previous update Notty said she'd be trying different weighted algorithms until she finds one that works and makes the game "feel organic enough" to be good to go (or I mean something like that, any discussion of math makes my tiny gorgeous hunky manflesh brain glaze over). No further update on this issue at thsi time.
