Artemis DevLog CH6 (Patreon)

'Afternoon, everyone!

Chiming this week to chat about some of the annoying things that happen during development. So, I bought this asset off the DAZ store. Put it on the model and was like "Nice. This'll work.". Started working on the scene, IRAY previews showing no issues, all is good. When it came to throwing into the batch render, whole thing just halted with no rhyme or reason. Which made it extremely difficult to troubleshoot. It was annoying because as I mentioned, IRAY preview showed up fine but the actual render would just crash. Which made no sense. I narrowed it down to the asset I bought, inspected it, found no issues. Since the asset was designed for Gen9, I thought maybe, just MAYBE DAZ really is janky-ass software. So, I updated to the latest version of DAZ (which is a cardinal sin of AVN development, but I said "fuck it. i'm out of solutions."). Well, the scene finally rendered normally. Threw them back into the oven and went back to development.

Welp. I forgot one of the issues that plagued the latest version of DAZ was for characters using Out of Touch hair assets. So, once that character was introduced into the scene...renders crashed again. Easy fix fortunately, as I all I had to do was update the hair and all remaining files finally rendered.

Just a bit of insight of issues we as developers sometimes run into and try to troubleshoot while trying to continue development. Fortunately, despite all this, I was able to meet my quota for last week.

That said, fuck DAZ. Praise Blender. Enjoy this preview render :)

Have yourselves a great week! Spooky season is upon us!

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