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Check In 06/08/2023
Howdy all, have another custom for the week. Just to give you a little eye candy.
Renders are 3400 finished of the 3500 posed. Still sitting on this slow batch of renders, They're churning out at about 10 a day, which trust me is just as maddening as it sounds. At the rate it's going I expect it won't be finished until next Friday at soonest.
Animations are now mostly finished, they still need a check up from my terrifying animation tutor so he can tell me everything I fucked up, and then I'll be ready to render them.
Taking the time that sitting on these renders to work on back end things I've needed to work on for a while. Images are mostly coded and I find myself with a good amount of time to look at some other things. Music, effects and such. I was going to hold off on that stuff until after release, but since I find myself with the time I'm trying to at least get the groundwork set up instead of sitting around twiddling my thumbs.
With how large this current update is I have a sneaking feeling that this next release will balloon in size, now as much as I hate the practice I think it's likely I'll have to end up dividing the game into a separate "season" like others have. I don't want to, but I also would like not have 13GB download or larger going into the future. Now preserving save compatibility is most important to me so I want to make sure I have everything properly ready for that before I make a choice there. I'll keep you in the loop on how that goes in the future.
Nothing much happening here beyond all that. I'm just chipping away at what I can where I can. I do want to take a moment and thank you all for your patience this update cycle, the thing ended up way larger and more time intensive than I was expecting and I do greatly appreciate your patience with me. Now most people know that I long ago learned my lesson on release dates, so I don't give any until I'm sure I won't break them, but for transparency sake I do want to say that I don't expect that this will be released until at early to mid next month. That's not a solid date so don't take that as me saying that's exactly when it's coming, but I just want to give people the most information I can, seems polite. Even once all the art is complete, there are so many little paths and permutations this update that myself and the testers have a lot to do, but we're trying our best. Honestly without all the people who help on the back end I honestly don't think I could do this. Honestly the testers and proofers are the real heroes here, they not only make the game actually functional they also can tolerate and deal with artists, which is much more of a skill than you'd think. After all we creative types are very well known for being grounded and well scheduled ...
Enough whinging though, thank you as always for the support and I hope you all have a lovely rest of your week.
Sláinte!
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