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Well, it's been an interesting time on the render front. I'll have some days where renders seem to have few issues (maybe 1 or 2 crashes in a day). And I've had several days where I can't get a render to complete at all thanks to issues with my render engine. After months of the company who develops the render engine saying it will be fixed in the next release, I've lost confidence there. So it's time to announce something I really hoped to avoid during game development: a render engine change.
I'll be using Iray to do renders in Daz. There are definitely better options out there, but I don't have the time right now to learn a new software program, workflow, AND render engine. I've done my best to make everything look the same, though you'll notice some small differences (in fact, the most recent Annie renders in her Discord channel are Iray and our custom comics for March were done in Iray). Everything is converted over now, so there is no extra time other than me getting more comfortable with Iray and its unique aspects. A big thank you to
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for some tips to get me up and running quickly.
As far as other progress on the game front, I'm still plugging along with .2. Hope to have that ready soon, but still can't give a release date with the rendering setbacks. As far as plans to go back and redoing previous releases in Iray, I'm definitely considering that, as long as it doesn't take a lot of development time spent working on new releases. But at some point, maybe right around the time we are finishing up Last Call, previous releases will get the Iray treatment.
Custom comics took up my last week, along with Iray conversions of assets. I've got that special 4K wallpaper for patrons coming very soon. Other than that, the focus remains on .2. My day job is still working me hard (10 hour days some days), but I hope things give me a bit more rendering time here soon. I also knocked off a longer term item off my to do list. Our Patreon tiers now have shiny new images.
If you've missed our Annie quarantine renders, check those out in
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. She has her own channel, and we plan to keep these going for her for about two more weeks. Unfortunately, at least here in the US, it is looking a lot more like we will be dealing with this Covid-19 quarantine for another couple of months. So expect to see some more girls join the quarantine daily renders after Annie is done. We want to give you all something to look forward to since so many of you are stuck at home.
Keep an eye on
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. We've got a ton of great content there. Stay safe, everyone!
- IT Roy