Dev Diary, July 12th, 2024
Added 2024-07-12 12:00:14 +0000 UTCI finished the big scene this week and ended up with 200 renders for that scene alone. I still have a big non-lewd cinematic animation scene to pose and render. And, of course, all of the scenes where you get to spend some one-on-one time with the girl(s) of your choosing.
But I feel I can finally see a light at the end of the tunnel. It's approaching slowly, but it's there.
Other than that, I received my new hardware this week. The SSD cloning dock didn't arrive until an hour ago, but at least it's here. I know the render rig has several bad sectors on both disks and is running out of space, so I'll probably clone them over the weekend. I have no idea if cloning works on the system disk, but in the worst-case scenario, I have to reinstall Windows.
I also spent a few days this week setting up the U4iA Steam page, which should be approved soon. I'll let you know when it's ready.
Have a lovely weekend, and stay safe out there.
// Drifty
Comments
For doing a drive clone, there are two methods you can use. Samsung SSDs also let you use the Samsung Data Migration tool which will do a fairly good job of moving things from an old SSD to a new, including to resize. But, I don't know how well it would work with "bad sectors" or read errors on the source drive. Acronis is decent, but again, things can be problematic when the source drive has problems. So, taking a step back, drives will have two possible partition schemes. GPT is the newer, and hopefully your current drive with problems is already on GPT. You also have Legacy MBR vs. the EFI boot system that SHOULD be on every system at this point. I love EFI for making the migration from an old drive to a new drive fairly easy. With GPT and EFI, the way I do it is to image just the operating system partition(C: drive) and save the image to an external hard drive. Then I will install the new drive, and do a clean install of Windows on it. Then, I will restore the partition for C: from the original drive on top of the C: drive of the new installation of WIndows. At that point, the software you use SHOULD resize the drive to match the new setup, and the EFI partition will point to the proper place. If there are errors on the source image, then restoring the image you may need to resize it upward if the new SSD is larger than the original. Since you are just taking the C: partition from the old drive and putting it onto C: on the new drive, it should boot, all drivers and software in place, and life will be good. Doing this to a smaller drive is more problematic, but can sometimes be done, but there's a lot more leg work that has to be done.
Targonis
2024-07-12 22:01:31 +0000 UTCThank you for the update. I can't wait. :)
The Greggen
2024-07-12 16:36:33 +0000 UTCOkay, Drifty, I have to admit you are one sneaky devil. There was a scene in LoF that made no sense to me. But now, I am playing Artemis and it makes all the sense in the world now, as does the scene in Artemis. Did you, the developers of Stone Fox, and DigiB all have the plan to interlink your games or was it a piecemeal development? And I gotta tell you, I think it is brilliant and adds a lot to the experience of each game.
Teufelhunde DJI
2024-07-12 16:27:38 +0000 UTCI clone drives for a decent portion of my profession (primary disks, secondary in equal measure). Cloning a system drive is 100% the same as cloning a non-system disk - either your source is perfectly readable or it isn't, which is why it is important to take disk-images ("snapshots") on a regular basis, preferably scheduled. It is fairly trivial to set up a scheduled backup* with paid software meant for the task, and you can even restore the entire functional system even to a dissimilar PC with a bootable USB stick and engaging said function (Macrium Reflect's** is called "Redeploy") in the event your motherboard or whatnot goes [explosion noise] and you need this particular install / build up ASAP. *With full + differential / incremental you can easily have daily restore points. **Just my preferred solution, there are others. For your immediate use, MR also works with attached docks for taking / restoring an image, so it's nice to have it available on a secondary PC also. The images can restore to a larger drive, and even a smaller one if the data-set fits into the smaller disk - the partitions will auto-adjust to fill available space. Hit me up if you'd like to ask questions.
jay8008
2024-07-12 13:30:42 +0000 UTCI use Macrium reflect to clone or copy all my disks, even the ones on NAS, I does a great job, never had a problem! Good luck!
Sewer Rat
2024-07-12 13:29:43 +0000 UTCCloning system disk is a hit or miss. Different SSD different cloning docks and software. I'm referring to Win 10, Win 11 has even more protection/block and so on. It worked for me on a laptop but desktop I wouldn't be so sure. It better to reinstall Win set everything up and clone the data only. If you have data only disk (I assume you have) there should be no problem. New Win on new disk, rest of the software and you're good to go. Regardless hope it goes well and have a good weekend
Jacek Wiśniewski
2024-07-12 12:59:24 +0000 UTCTake a break after this release! You deserve it
JP
2024-07-12 12:38:14 +0000 UTCThank you for the update. I hope everything works out with the new hardware. 😎👍
Calhoun28
2024-07-12 12:05:55 +0000 UTC
