News: August 2024

I've been focusing on nothing but GnB so far this month. Adding hair customization to animations takes a bit longer than still images. If the head moves at all, the hair could clip or do unintended things. I have to check through every frame to make sure those things don't happen, and fix them if they do. One hair in particular is quite a hassle. It's not really all that time consuming, there's just a lot of animations to get through.

Rendering the animations is what is taking most of the development time. I can't do anything in Daz while rendering because, well, Daz is rendering. I can't do much in terms of working on DI because DI is dependent on images and animations that come from Daz. So until the GnB renders are all finally done, DI will not see very much development. I rather do things this way so GnB can be completed sooner, so I can focus all of my time on DI afterwards. I think this is better than splitting time between the two and neither see adequate progress.

So how much is done? All of Echo's animations and the couple of stills are ready to render. Helga's are almost ready as well. Nexus is up next, currently nothing ready. The renders themselves vary based on location/lighting, number of frames, etc. Sometimes I can get a few full animations rendered in a day. Sometimes the entire day is needed to render 1 animation. Times that by 4 for each hair style then another 2 for fem/futa then yet another 2 for the different camera angles, and you can probably guess it's going to take a while to get all of those renders done.

The good news is that I can do a lot of rendering while asleep. I can't magically wake up the moment one animation finishes to start rendering another, though. If only. The render queue I use doesn't support animations. Regardless, I'm going to be focusing on getting those last GnB renders completed ASAP so I can get back to DI. I can't give an exact time frame due to every animation varying as noted above. I don't think it should be more than a few updates/months, though.

That's about all there is to talk about. I believe that I will have quite a bit of time next month to work on the code for DI while GnB renders do their thing. I don't think my computer will explode from multitasking that. For now, I'll get those last few Helga and Nexus scenes ready for rendering. The next few months might feel somewhat stagnant, but I think this is the best way to tackle things for the sake of the long term.

Anyways, enough rambling. At least a render was running while I typed this. (It managed 7 frames in case you were curious.) Bonus image poll is still going. Vote in that if you want. The theme will probably involve full nudity, because why not? Been a few months since that was the case.

Thank you as always!