You must be registered to see the links
Dev Talk
This Dev talk is coming a little early as I need to head to the airport in a few hours.
Version 0.40 was released earlier this week and seemed to have been well received. Since most code work has been resolved in previous builds and I've become fairly quick with Octane, it's been a much more straightforward development cycle. My goal is to continue releasing updates of similar size
(at least 500 renders) and to include most of, if not all of the girls per update.
I've finally gotten around to installing Daz 4.12 beta, which includes some improved animation tools. The heavily compressed gif above is me playing around with these tools for 30 minutes. Obviously it's in a really rough state, it was just an experiment to see what is possible. So far, I'm really liking the improvements. It's no secret that my animations could use some work, so I'll start focusing more in that direction.
It's my birthday in a week, and the wife and I are flying out to Eastern Europe to spend it with family and do some sight-seeing. We'll be visiting Georgia, Armenia and Bulgaria in that order. I'll try to post some pictures here and there.
I'll be gone for a little over two weeks. This obviously means that I won't be able to render anything, but it won't be all leisure. I'm bringing my laptop to get all the story events written out for the next update as well as finalize the overall outline for the entire game. This is essentially the work that happens all throughout the development cycle but this time around it'll simply be done upfront. There will also be less distractions with random side-character interactions. I've been closing off any open slots in the $15/$20 tier as soon as someone lowers their pledge. The goal here being that I want to focus fully on driving the story forward and complete this project in a timely manner. Soccer Mom can stay because she's such a troll character and I can't pass up a good trolling.
Finally, I want to give a special thanks to everyone for their support! We've reached the goal of $1000 a month
(WOW! Holy Shit!), meaning I'll be slowly buying computer parts throughout the year with the aim of building a dedicated render rig that's capable of supporting 4 graphics cards. This will increase my render speed by at least 2X. Thank you all for your support! It still feels like yesterday where I had sunk a few grand into starting this game, earning $20 a month, with an angry wife shaking her head at my poor decisions.
She still shakes her head in disappointment, but at least it's not because of this game.
With warm and tender cuddly love,
Domiek
