I do contracting work on the side, and we usually give an estimate to the customers when we will be finished...if we get finished 10 days ahead of schedule...we just say it's finished and they move back into their homes....we don't just leave them in a motel just to keep the deadline when we first estimated...that's just stupid. So I would think, especially in this situation where he is WAY past his deadlines that he gave, he would have put it out already if it was finished. I don't think he will just magically finish because the calendar changes to 30. So I guess I don't have any expectations for it to be here to be honest.
Yeah, like
SubtleHustle mentioned, Icstor doesn't seem to have a real plan on how many animations he needs or wants to do. As he said in one of his latest Discord posts, "
we will probably reach above 100" animations for the release.
The way this is phrased, it is pretty clear to me that if we see a release tomorrow, it will not be released because the animations are done. Instead the update will be released with whatever he has to not miss another deadline.
Keep in mind that, as I stated before, if the update will be released with ~100 animations it will be 1 animation for around 24 renders.
This would be a significant drop relative to the size of the update as there would be about
46% less animations than the last 3 updates before 0.6 had, which was 1 animation for about every 13 renders.