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Hi, guys!

This week, I fell a little behind my planned schedule. I have excuses.

On Wednesday, something completely unreasonable happened for September here: 26°C (81°F).

That was probably my last chance to meet summer for the next nine or ten months, so I took the day off.

And, well...There's no point pretending otherwise. I had a slight hangover the next day.

So that's one day and... let's call it another partially functional day. 😄

But there's another reason, and this one is actually related to some changes I'm making to my development process.

I have a lot of DAZ files where Laura's clothes need replacing, gravity simulations need running, and everything needs to be saved again before I can render it.

None of this is creative work. I can undress Laura and redress her with scripts, which is an odd sentence to include in my job description, but I can't properly handle the gravity simulations that way.

So I spend a ridiculous amount of time waiting.

Waiting for a file to open.

Waiting for the simulation.

Waiting for it to save.

Repeat.

And then I realised something. I have a wife with some free time.

(Yes, yes. I know. This is the second or third weekly update in a row where I've mentioned my wife. I promise I'll stop eventually. She seems to be slowly becoming a member of the development team.)

And...

I have a spare RTX 3090.

You can probably see where this is going. Only two things were missing:

1. My wife's agreement.

That wasn't easy, but I managed it. She already suspects this is only the first step...

2. A second computer built around my old and extremely trustworthy RTX 3090.

Simple, right?

So I contacted a couple of companies about the remaining components.

And then...

Then I had to change my pants... And clean the chair I was sitting on.

WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO COMPUTER HARDWARE PRICES?!

Anyway.

After a shower and about an hour of crying, I decided to build the damn thing.

Over the past two days, instead of following my development schedule, I've been preparing my wife's new workstation.

And I have to admit, I'm doing it with a little jealousy. If we ignore the RTX 5090 in my own machine, her new computer is probably two heads above mine in almost every other respect.

And that huge curved monitor...

Uhhh.

It's fine. I don't need it. It wouldn't even fit on my desk.

I DON'T NEED IT.

So there we are.

I'm currently a couple of days behind schedule, but hopefully I'll recover that time once I have two computers, and potentially two people, working on Chapter 3.

We'll see how this experiment goes.

That's it for today.

Thank you, as always, for your support!

Have a wonderful Sunday and a great week ahead!

Nemiegs

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Dennis

Beginner's mistake! Always trickle down your hardware to your "friends" :D . Makes sure your are working with the best and they have something good and proven to go on with for reduced costs :D . But yeah, good idea, sourcing out some work to someone you can really trust. Best thanks to your devoted wife for helping you and thus helping us getting a better game sooner. Hope, she enjoys it a little or at least can bear it. It might even boost your development-morale when you to work on the game together.

johncfinley1

You don't need excuses and I love to her your wife is well and the two of you share in this! And as a loyal Republican, You can blame Donald Trump for the price of anything, hehehe

Lord Stanley Cup

So you'll both be in the same room working? Sounds to me like less work will get done. 😍😍😍

Banisher

The build-up of MANY data center full of AI server infrastructure let the HW prices skyrocket. Excellent idea 💡 What I still find interesting is that your wife accepts to be anywhere near your game.

Nemiegs

I need to be American to be a Republican 🤭

Nemiegs

Not the same room, though. I am very grumpy and too focused when I work. But we sometimes engage in brief recreational activities during the working day, such as taking walks and others...

Nemiegs

She is very open-minded, and we support each other's crazy ideas. I asked for her approval before I even started this project seven years ago. Recently, since I established Studija Nemiegs as a company for tax purposes, I now sometimes have to reveal to a broader audience exactly what I am doing, and I have discovered that most people here are surprised but very supportive.

PickerPatron

Mmm... a hangover caused by a hot day 😏☕. Yes, the price of anything with memory has skyrocketed because of AI, including basic RAM sticks and GPUs. Hopefully your wife understands something about the script, as it doesn't seem to be as simple as just sitting down, double-clicking something and being done with it 🤔🙏.

Nemiegs

Do you mean the game's script? She has a basic understanding of what comes next. However, it will be as simple as double-clicking at first. I have a plan to take her from zero knowledge to a medium level in Daz. All the creative work will always be on me. I just need someone to help me with the boring stuff.

johncfinley1

Old Republicans believed in the U.S. Constitution in that all men are created equal, that they are endowed with life, liberty and "the pursuit of happiness" which you have to know its meaning and people like Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin and the rest. Lincoln is there because he held to it.

PickerPatron

No, I was referring to the custom script you mentioned, which you said helps with animations, undressing, and changing Laura's clothes 😅.

Nemiegs

Ah, I see. Those scripts run without us present. They open scene files, find Laura, change her clothing, and save the scene. And it happens in batch. Later, someone has to open every scene file, run the simulation, and save the scene.

Banisher

I am curious. Have you already tried out DLSS 5?

Nemiegs

No, I haven’t. And unless I’ve misunderstood something, there isn’t really anything for me to try. DLSS 5 is designed for real-time rendering in supported games, while I render my images offline in DAZ Studio using Iray. My RTX 5090 does plenty of heavy lifting there, but DLSS isn’t involved.

Nemiegs

Well, now I know what you meant. 😄 I initially assumed you meant NVIDIA’s gaming implementation of DLSS 5, but this morning I found the new third-party DAZ Studio extension. I haven’t tried it yet. It looks interesting, but it was released only a few days ago, currently supports DAZ 4.24 and RTX 30/40 series cards, and has very little real-world testing. For my workflow, consistency across thousands of images and animation frames is more important than the result of a single render, so I’ll watch how it develops before trusting it with production work.

Circuitarity

Before reading to far into this post... everyone needs mental health breaks and you shouldn't need an excuse to take a day or 2 off every month so that you don't burn out. I would hate for you to quit production because you got tired of all the back biting comments or just general wear out of your patience because the project won't cooperate in some way.

Nemiegs

Thanks. I guess I am constantly on the edge of burnout; it's become my normal state lately (for a few years 😅). I just cannot stop because I love what I am doing.