MOS Game - Development News - January 17, 2021 (Patreon)

Hello my dear friends!

This is the weekly development report for the new episode of MOS Game.

So 1. At the moment I have completed work on 100 pictures. I also prepared 18 more images for rendering next week. Next week, I plan to complete the all pictures and prepare most of the animations for rendering.

So 2. About porting the game to a new engine. Work continues. Actually there is nothing more to write. I'm just fighting with the game engine code ;-)

So 3. Thanks to your help, my patrons, I was able to update my computer. This is my main computer on which I create pictures and everything else to develop this game.

Previously, my computer was running on 2 Intel Xeon x5675 processors - 12 cores, 24 threads and a maximum frequency of 3.3GHz and 32GB DDR3 memory. It was a very fast computer for long-running tasks with multithreading support. But on tasks that needed to be done quickly, but not for long, this computer was rather slow. These are tasks such as launching a 3D editor, loading a project into a 3D editor, preparing a project for rendering, etc.

As a result, I built a new computer on a Ryzen R7 5800X processor - this is 8 cores 16 threads and a maximum frequency of 4.85GHz and 32GB DDR4 memory at a speed of 3600. What did I get by updating my computer? Now my computer is a fucking crazy spaceship!

Instantaneous speed has increased more than 10 (ten) times and that's just great! For example, loading a project into a 3D editor was reduced from about 1.5 minutes to 10 seconds, preparation and prerendering from 5-10 minutes to 20-40 seconds. These are just a few examples, but they say a lot.

And yes, if it seems to you that it was fast before, then I will say that for example, to prepare one image for rendering, it was necessary to perform 5-10 pre-renders, and this is from 25 to 100 minutes only the time spent on trial renders, during which I just sat and stared at the monitor, i.e. Did not do anything.

And now the conclusion - the new computer will allow me to take pictures faster and make more pictures, and I also have more time left to work on the script and the game engine. This will help me make the game faster and bigger. And all this thanks to you, thank you so much!

That's all for now.

Thank you so much for your help!

See you soon!