Dev stated in the past they didn't want it to look too polished as it was in a world that was bleak. If the dev had focused on getting excellent quality .. we would just now being done with the first game (due to the number of images and chapters) and not being almost done with the second. Sometimes the enemy of good is perfection.
ehhh, I'm not sure it'd take that much longer, HS doesn't have to render images like DAZ does...
There is a lot of touch-up in post after rendering with things like photoshop or GIMP. If you spend twice the amount of time doing touch-up to clear up all perfections, there is much delay added. But in a month (the Devs usual cycle), at least 50% is spend on rendering. If you double rendering time (and touch-up), then you are effectively making release every 1.5 months instead of every month. Which mathmatically (30 releases in N&T, 4 months between games, 26 releases in TID, so 56 months for game releases), you would only be on Chapter 7 of TID at this point.
huh?? if they touch-up 10 images, it's the same amount of time whether they're high res or low res... it's still 10 images... I'm not sure what you're talking about here... =/
I am saying to make the images more polished, above what they are doing, there would be a lot more post rendering touch-up, extending the time it takes to do the rendering for any chapter. If there is 3 weeks of rendering, post rendering touch-up per chapter (as the Dev has said is their usual cycle), then having to a lot more touch-up in post to make them more polished takes time, extending each release. Adding approx 50% more time in post rendering touch-up to make them more polished would mean the dev would only be on chapter 7 of TID at the moment.
That's not really "touching up" images. Lets say for example, just using the stock assets takes 30 minutes per image. Getting higher quality isn't only saying "render image in 4k". If you download a .gif icon for example, zooming will not make it look better.
I'm just gonna ignore the rest because it doesn't matter... but yes, you're right, the decision would be to up the quality and have it take longer or not... imo it'd be nice for it to look a bit better, even if it takes a bit longer... they'd need to find a good middle-ground solution so it doesn't take THAT long...
Dev said they are using HS2 for Game 3. They had setup too much world building in HS1 before HS2 came out for TID, thus didn't want to switch over as it came out after he had already started this game. Somewhere I have seen some sample images of the new game, and yes, they are little better.
