Development Blog #155 (Patreon)

Hi, all.

Work on the update is going well. I found a really nice rhythm preparing scenes during the day and rendering them in bulk during the night. I was able to consistently make 4-5 images each day, which I haven't done in quite some time.

Preparing a scene and then waiting for more than an hour to render was really breaking my rhythm. A couple of years ago I was using my second PC to render, while preparing the next scene on the new computer, or preparing the next scene on the old one while rendering on the new rig. But it got old and working on it became annoying. Scenes would load very slow from the NAS as well, I never managed to set that up properly. So I stopped using it that much. I then tried this bulk rendering method, but the plugins back then weren't working well. They would often crash between scenes, because DAZ Studio sucks at freeing the VRAM. Now the render queue is integrated in the program and so far has been working flawlessly. So I'm super happy with my productivity from the last weeks. I just finished a scenes I was struggling with and I'm moving to another one that would be more fun to work on. I still have a big scene to tackle. One that can play in two completely different ways, so it's double the work. But if this pace remains I'm optimistic about it.

I keep tweaking the Genesis 9 version of Jessica as well. I think at this point it's pretty much identical to the Genesis 3 model. There are some small differences in the shader and the expressions, but nothing too big. The images above are with the same model, btw, it's not a comparison. Next time I'll share some of the latest renders of the two side by side.

That's all. Have fun, and thanks for the support.