Progress Report (Patreon)

Rendering the fourth angle of the final animation of day 56 is progressing as anticipated. I have also completed testing of the new content that is currently ready, so once angle 4 and the re-render of angle 1 are done, I should have a fairly quick turnaround to being able to release 0.9 beta 4.

With the render delays, I've been focusing mainly on script work this week, but I have also been spending time troubleshooting the render issues on my old workstation and posing the April renders.

On the subject of the render issues with my old workstation, after updating and reinstalling pretty much everything, I was still encountering issues, so I finally just reloaded the whole thing last night. I've been testing it today by rendering the April renders I have done, and so far it has performed flawlessly. I have it rendering one more April render right now, and if there are no issues, I will start it doing the re-render of angle 1 of the final animation.

While I appear to have solved my render issues with the old workstation, I still need more render capacity to keep delivering rapid updates, especially if I continue to do longer animations like the final one of day 56. To that end, I have tapped into my savings and purchased the necessary hardware to add a dedicated Iray server render machine running dual RTX 5000 Ada graphics cards. I am confident that this setup will help to prevent major delays like this one with 0.9 beta 4.

Back to the subject of the April renders, I am planning to post those next week, and they will be featuring the lovely Liz. A sample render from the set is below.