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Happy New Year everybody. I wish you all an amazing year.
As you know for the past 2 weeks I've been away so I couldn't do much progress, but actually I've done more than I would have hopped. I know it doesn't look that much on the progress bar, but basically what I've done was managed to fix the text and I'm finally happy with the result. Also in doing that I have removed around 300 renders. So now instead of having to make 1400 renders for this episode I will only need to make around 1100, which is still but it's an improvement.
Now that I said the good news here come the bad ones because this year didn't start as I would have hoped.
I have returned home on Monday night ready to start the work on Tuesday, but my machine broke. I will not go too much into details on this, but eventually I had to reinstall the windows, so I've done that on Wednesday.
After I set everything up I made a quick test and the software I was using to make renders had updated and the new version was crashing. Eventually I have figured out the problem which mainly required me to delete and reinstall some of the assets, however my library was already a mess because I've been using the same library since I started working on No More Secrets. I planned for a long time to delete everything and start from scratch, but I never had the guts to do it, until this week. Maybe I drank too much during the holidays, but yeah. I did it.
I'm in the process of rebuilding my library which will take a lot of time, but hopefully this will not impact too much the development of the episode. Since my priority is to release this episode as fast as possible today I have managed to get more or less everything I need for this episode. There are still a few things I'm missing, but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it. In case some of you are wondering if this was worth it, I can say it has. If before it was taking me 3-5 minutes to load a character, now it only takes me 30 seconds.
Anyway on Monday I should be able to start making renders, if the delivery service will bring me a new keyboard, because due to the many frustrations I had this week I accidentally spilled coffee on my last working keyboard and now some keys are stuck. I managed somehow to make the today render, but it was annoying, so hopefully tomorrow I'll receive the keyboard and on Monday I'll start making the renders you love so much.
Also stay tunned because next week I might propose some small changes to some of the characters, nothing too big, but still I will need you to vote.
That being said, I wish you all a wonderful weekend.
Cheers,
Jason