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Happy Fourth of July
2 hours ago
Or just Happy Summer. Just an excuse to do a fun beach render.
Happy Fourth of July
2 hours ago
Or just Happy Summer. Just an excuse to do a fun beach render.
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Progress Report, July 2, 2025
Yesterday
Howdy folks,
I am still alive.
Before we get into it, let me give you a little context into what's been going on in my daily life so you all may get a grasp of why I've been a little silent.
As many of you know, America voted in the most worthless pile of shit we could've ever voted into office. One of the really awesome things he did was the tariffs. My day job is doing the in-store signage design for one of the largest retail box stores in the world. The tariffs have basically forced all of us to have to redo all of the signage we've created over the past three-four months in a month.
I've been burning the candle at both ends and the stress got to me. This doesn't excuse my lack of updates. For that I truly apologize. I forget sometimes that I'm doing the game for more than just fun. I will try to do better but I'm only human. Hopefully you all understand where I'm coming from.
Now to what you all want to know and I'll keep it as short as possible while giving you enough of an idea of what we're facing as possible.
I'm currently sitting at about 1126 of the roughly 3000 images we need to redo. I'm about halfway through the update, which will be about 850 images or so.
For the redos, we have to open the old files. These take about 35-45 min each just to open depending on how many people are in the image and/or the size of the environments. One thing to note with our game is that if you see something outside of a window or in the background, it's most likely a 3D model and not an HDRI. So, almost all of the scenes are big.
After I finally get the files open, I copy the characters from the old environments to the new environments, update the lighting and in some cases tweak expressions or poses to make them a bit better. That takes about 20-30 minutes to do.
Finally, our renders take between 2-3 hours to render at 4K so that we maintain the high level of quality you've come to expect.
So, each reworked image eats up about 4 hours time on my computer. This is not a quick fix. I wish it was but it wasn't.
We are still working furiously and will release everything as soon as we possibly can. I'll do my damnedest to keep up with Updates. Moving forward, I'm going to move these to Saturday or Sunday instead of Wednesday so that I'll have more time to get it together and not feel as stressed out.
That's it for now! We appreciate all of you.
Wilson
