VN Ren'Py Summer's Gone [S1 Steam + DLC] [Oceanlab]

[Penfold Mole]

Well, the game is not just renders. It's great that rendering goes faster now than Ocean can prepare the scenes for the queue, but there's also coding to be done:
one line of code just for each render and animation, add dialog text lines, phone text messages, Aurora messages, variable import from season one, multiple choice menus, logic to follow different paths and choices, music for the scenes, now these collectibles (that means active button logic for each collectible scene), then the galleries: images, collectibles, achievements, animations, Nami's photoblog(?), scene replays... (Hopefully he learned by now how to create replays without duplicating game scene scripts), some things I haven't thought of...

Not to mention that there's going to be an actual coherent story in there, on those dialog lines, which no one but Ocean knows about how much is finished publishing-ready and how much he will re-think and re-write while coding it into Ren'Py.

It's a fucking mammoth job and a whole new (ball)game.

 

[MIkedante]

Ocean changed even texture of Nia's nipples, same like he did with Leia's ones. Now they are much darker and looks less bumpy.

Old ones:


New ones:

 

[alanrock]

It will be a while before there is an update, but I can see a light ...

 

[RNasc4444]

Nice devlog. I give it a gross/10.

And seriously whose cock do I need to suck to get a goddamn sick/vomit reaction emote?!?!?!?

 

[dan_roger69]

Nice devlog. I give it a gross/10.

And seriously whose cock do I need to suck to get a goddamn sick/vomit reaction emote?!?!?!?

Was wondering why you haven't commented on the recent devlog and thought you got tired of criticizing .

 

[RNasc4444]

Was wondering why you haven't commented on the recent devlog and thought you got tired of criticizing .

I'll never get tired of criticizing. I saw it 15m after it got posted but huh...kinda started feeling a little nauseous right after so I had to take some time to recover. I'm a little better right now but I think I'm skipping dinner today...

 

[Penfold Mole]

Ocean changed even texture of Nia's nipples, same like he did with Leia's ones. Now they are much darker and looks less bumpy.

Old ones:
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New ones:
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I'm not sure I like everyone getting standardized Ocean nipples...
I mean, how many are there already in SG and WIAB? Is someone keeping a count?

 

[Adhdclassic]

Ocean changed even texture of Nia's nipples, same like he did with Leia's ones. Now they are much darker and looks less bumpy.

Old ones:
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New ones:
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The old one had detail new one is just brown. Shit she is a redhead nipples should be more pinkish and if you wanted to change something sprinkle some freckles on those Titays.

 

[LHDLLB]

Well, the game is not just renders. It's great that rendering goes faster now than Ocean can prepare the scenes for the queue, but there's also coding to be done:
one line of code just for each render and animation, add dialog text lines, phone text messages, Aurora messages, variable import from season one, multiple choice menus, logic to follow different paths and choices, music for the scenes, now these collectibles (that means active button logic for each collectible scene), then the galleries: images, collectibles, achievements, animations, Nami's photoblog(?), scene replays... (Hopefully he learned by now how to create replays without duplicating game scene scripts), some things I haven't thought of...

Not to mention that there's going to be an actual coherent story in there, on those dialog lines, which no one but Ocean knows about how much is finished publishing-ready and how much he will re-think and re-write while coding it into Ren'Py.

It's a fucking mammoth job and a whole new (ball)game.

While all of this is true and rendering is only a part of the whole, it is a huge part, and speed it means a overall faster update. About coding I was under the impression that Ocean had found one, by the logs I got the impression that the phone coder was doing the code for the whole episode and Ocean was focusing on render and writing, the more creative part.

 

[LHDLLB]

Ocean changed even texture of Nia's nipples, same like he did with Leia's ones. Now they are much darker and looks less bumpy.

Old ones:
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New ones:
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I will take Nia pepperoni nipples or not, don't really understand the fascination with nipples.

 

[Darkdevil66]

And seriously whose cock do I need to suck to get a goddamn sick/vomit reaction emote?!?!?!?

 

[Penfold Mole]

I'd like some consistency of already established looks most of all. At least those that weren't bonkers from the start of S1.

 

[Ray_D]

And seriously whose cock do I need to suck to get a goddamn sick/vomit reaction emote?!?!?!?

I guess the moderators.

 

[LoGyMW]

Ocean changed even texture of Nia's nipples, same like he did with Leia's ones. Now they are much darker and looks less bumpy.

Old ones:
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New ones:
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Can't say im a fan of this change. No redhead is going to have nipples this dark. It just doesn't make sense. Redheads tend to have pale pinkish nipples, it has to do with different balance of melanin in their skin compared to other Caucasian people, its why natural redheads tend to be pale and have freckles. I guess she is not a natural redhead then. My immersion is ruined xd

 

[imrahir]

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Me too Sasha, me too

 

[LoGyMW]

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This a new girl next to Sasha? I don't remember her from season 1

 

[lonelyk]

Nia has some pepperoni looking nipples

Ocean changed even texture of Nia's nipples, same like he did with Leia's ones. Now they are much darker and looks less bumpy.

Old ones:
View attachment 4543502

New ones:
View attachment 4543546

The old one had detail new one is just brown. Shit she is a redhead nipples should be more pinkish and if you wanted to change something sprinkle some freckles on those Titays.

Agree with the sentiment, old nipples were better. She's a redhead, so I was expecting pale pink nipples as this is genetics, this now looks out of place. I preferred her without the nipple piercings too, but at least that's a change I can understand better. Looking forward to the date with Nia though!

Really great to see productivity improve with the workstation, but I hope it will translate to frequent releases to make finishing the game more realistic, not just ever-growing render count per release. When I think of all the branching in the story, future updates late in the game are bound to be short for the player and long for the developer. :/

 

[Adhdclassic]

Agree with the sentiment, old nipples were better. She's a redhead, so I was expecting pale pink nipples as this is genetics, this now looks out of place. I preferred her without the nipple piercings too, but at least that's a change I can understand better. Looking forward to the date with Nia though!

Really great to see productivity improve with the workstation, but I hope it will translate to frequent releases to make finishing the game more realistic, not just ever-growing render count per release. When I think of all the branching in the story, future updates late in the game are bound to be short for the player and long for the developer. :/

The nipples piercing has to be there, remember she only removed them for gym class. The piercings go with her personality. Plus she makes it look sexy.

 

[HarryDubois420]

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Hello,

With this Dev Log, we return to the old Bi-weekly Wednesday Dev log schedule.

So... after the last log, some complained that I didn't give as much info regarding the render count, etc.

I heard ya and from now on I will ban everyone who asks me that.

Of course, I'm just kidding and will, from now on, provide a bi-weekly render count + a total.

The reason why I stopped doing it is because a lot of expectations come with them.

The irony is, no matter how many renders I add, it's always too little.

People go ham with the conspiracy theories if there's a discrepancy between two weeks.

I could post a render count every week with the same amount of images added, and people would still find a way to uncover "the truth".

It's exhausting.

However, I like to be transparent, and a render total is a part of it.

The last total render count was mentioned on the 19th of December, just short of Christmas. I took it easier over Christmas and created all the Christmas Treats.

~3750 renders -> ~4790 (+ a hundred in the queue)

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12 days ago, I said I'd count how many renders I do between Dev Logs to see how much the Workstation improves productivity.

I won't count two of these days because the first day was already over, and I took one day to care for some personal relationships.

Previously, I'd do and render around 20-40 daily renders and zero animations. (Animations would lock down the PC for the entire day.)

So, in 10 days of work with the new Workstation, I created AND rendered out:
641 still renders
7 animations.
It went from:
~300 to 671 images
0 to 7 animations.

I didn't completely reach my goal of 70 renders a day. (Average of 64).

However, new environments and giant scenes make this impossible if you want to maintain quality. Sometimes, I can only set up 20-40 images, while other times, I reach 80-100.

From now on, I aim for 70 renders a day, but I won't beat myself up if it's "only" 40-50. I still have my quality to maintain and improve.

The workstation peaked at 78 images a night the other day, and with that, it outperforms me, which is fantastic.

My old Workstation will render animations until they're all done.

Keep in mind that not all renders are exclusively for SG.

Preview - 4K attached.
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With the new Season, I'll introduce collectibles.
I'll do the layered renders for them at the end, but let me show you what kind of image might be behind them.
4K attached.
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These images will thematically fit the scene in which they were found. You won't find a sudden nude Sasha in there, but you will find pleasant surprises.
There's another thingy I will introduce, and I'll talk about it in the next log.

Back to work.

• Ocean

Ayy a devlog on my birthday. Nice. Although last year i was hoping that I'd be playing the update on my birthday, but it is what it is. Who's the new chick? Npc or main char? Honestly i can't tell with his peak renders. Welp I'll let the conspiracy weirdos here cook up the lore for her.

 

[BobTheDuck]

Ayy a devlog on my birthday. Nice. Although last year i was hoping that I'd be playing the update on my birthday, but it is what it is. Who's the new chick? Npc or main char? Honestly i can't tell with his peak renders. Welp I'll let the conspiracy weirdos here cook up the lore for her.

Happy day Mr Dubois!

I'm not even going to guess the new chick. But at least you got a strawberry chocolate bar from Ocean, bottom left of that pic.