Friday Night Beach Chat #13 (Patreon)

Hey welcome once again to the naughtiest island in the Pacific. It's Paradise baby!

The word of the week is Work, hehe. Which is what I've been doing a lot of as I head towards release of Chapter 2. Lots of bug fixing, editing and moving text around this week. Deleted some scenes that were not flowing like I wanted. I also started to dabble a little with sound effects. There won't be much of these in Chapter 2 on release, I'm just adding them in places that I'm editing. But they will become standard in Chapter 3, it's too late to go back and add them all in for Chapter 2. I will however at some point in the future go back and fully add them in to Chapter 1 and 2. They should help improve the ambience of some scenes.

As for the rendering well it chugs along as usual going as fast as possible. Completed 92 renders this week. Some errors occur, some renders don't turn out well and need to be redone. Some of them are actually going to be combined into one image.

Something like this is actually 5 images that was combined into one. Time consuming process but it's the only way to get lots of characters in the same scene. Anything more than 3 characters and it has to fallback to CPU rendering and that takes 4-6 hours. While each of these individual images only take the GPU 15-25 minutes to render. There is the time needed to join the images but in the end it still saves time. Also I should be be able to use the same background images with different main character images. So for example this image above, there are some paths in which Derek does not go to the club with the group. I only need to render the front image without Derek and use the already rendered background images saving me some render time. Anyways I'm starting to ramble now. :-)

Release Date:I have no hard date, but I am working towards a June 23rd release. This is my target and I'm hoping I can get it done by then. It's all up to the rendering which is the one thing no matter how hard I work I can't go faster. Unless I develop some kind of time powers that let me add more hours to a day. Hahaha!

The reason it's not a hard date is it might slip to the 27th or even the 30th. I'll no more where I stand by next Friday.

Now for the sneak peek renders from this past weeks renderings. Pickings is slim since I'm not quite sure how explicit of an image I can post here on Patreon. This week has been a lot of the nastier scenes. Also the second one needs to be combined with others to form the final image, but the important bit is there.

I'm gonna take a chance on this one...please don't get me banned, it's just a kiss right. ;-)

That's it for this week. Have a great weekend!