Dev Update #53

Hello Patrons! 

I hope you are all doing well today. I wanted to give you guys a quick update on everything. 

First, I'm happy to announce that I upgraded my PC and it's practically a new PC, besides the case and some HDDs. This was much needed. My hardware was pretty decent before, but I have been struggling in a lot of scenes lately while in Honey Select Neo. There are numerous reasons why my FPS has gone down a lot. My maps are generally bigger now with higher polygon counts, new updates to graphic plugins with new graphical features, and just more complex scenes overall. I have several scenes in which I was getting 10-15 FPS in HS, and it's hard to work at an optimal pace when you are restricted by frames and waiting for the program to catch up. So I've been thinking about upgrading lately and finally did it. So your support is going to good use and will make the development easier for me. People have been asking about the specs on the new PC build, and if you're not in Discord regularly, you wouldn't know. So, I'll list the new specs here. 

-Ryzen 9 7950x CPU
-Asus TUF OC RTX 4090 GPU
-96GB (2x48GB) Trident Z5 DD5 6400 CL32 RAM
-990 Pro NVMe 4TB
-1200w PSU, AIO Cooler, New case fans, Strix x670E-E Mobo

It's all built now and running great. I had to take off almost two days from development to do everything. I had to prep my old PC, take it apart, put together my new PC, update drivers/bios, stress test, install all my software, and everything else. Everything is running well now, and I'm back to working on Ripples.

On the development side of things, I've been working on the new update every day besides the two days dealing with the new PC build. Everything is going good. I have pretty much all the writing and dialogue done, and I'll be able to mostly focus on the art now and try to make up some time. The scenes are going great so far, and they look beautiful. It's going to be a great update. I have about 705 renders and 37 animations done so far.

Have a great day, everyone!
-Jestur