VN Ren'Py Where It All Began [Ch. 3 Full] [Oceanlab]

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LHDLLB

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c.mork said:
WiAB Chapter 4 - Dev Log #24

Hello,

I have started with postwork, but I still need to some renders for the last scene.

The scene has around 45 people in it, and at most 34 are visible at the same time. The issue was that the queue stopped two days in a row at night because it encountered scenes that were too big.

Long story short, it was one of the G9s that for some reason used up 11GB on her own. It left me with having to re-open all renders again, and adjust the SubD settings.

Prior to this scene, the biggest scene I've had was 11 visible people at the same time. (I think). Real people, no weird cardboard people.

This scene with (peak) 34 visible people is new territory for me. (Or as Merkel would say "Neuland".) It's good training, and I'll need it for the future.

Figuring out the logistics of how to efficiently hide, pose, and re-introduce characters will be a valuable skill.

I've recently started using more Genesis 9 characters, but I wasn't aware of how much VRAM some of these fuckers ate.

I took the 23rd partially off because we had elections in Germany.

Here's an example render with 23 visible people from the scene.

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Render count ~3600 -> 3871 (~ 271 WIAB) (Another 190 for SG) Animations: +6 (13 total)

It's fewer renders than before, but that's simply because I'm working on a scene with 45 people in it. Immersion is important, so I do have to pose all visible characters every few renders.

The PC renders ~30 a night, and that's more than I expected considering the sheer size of the scene.

I started the process of collecting all SFX, as this will be the first Chapter that fully features a mix of ambient sounds, music, and SFX.

I currently do postwork whenever I'm stuck in loading.

Left to do in this order:

  • Finish last scene.
  • Postwork + lewd animations + cinematic
  • Testing begins. (Implement music, sfx, collectibles, gallery, and fix/improve issues/unliked renders.)
  • Insult Katie.
  • After the initial testing (before fixing render issues), I will send the game to Steam and GOG for review.)
I'll definitely have the last scene done by next dev log. With a bit of luck, I'll even have done all the lewd animations and sizeable chunk of postwork.

Oh, I changed Leia's eyes last year and hadn't mentioned it before. I was still using her old 2018 eyes, but I was so fed up with the low-quality reflections and shit that I had changed them.

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Alright March seems like real, real likely. That is a insane amount of people in a single render, but we get 13 animations outside the lewd ones ? plus cinematics ? and it also seems like that WiaB will reach the 4K. But why is Leia dressed with a vampire costume ?
 
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LHDLLB said:
Alright March seems like real, real likely. That is a insane amount of people in a single render, but we get 13 animations outside the lewd ones ? plus cinematics ? and it also seems like that WiaB will reach the 4K. But why is Leia dressed with a vampire costume ?
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Maybe it's a costume party and Leia is playing Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. Half the girls are wearing bunny ears there.
 
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Holyx9 said:
Based on this last dev log a release date of late March seems possible.
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LHDLLB said:
Alright March seems like real, real likely. That is a insane amount of people in a single render, but we get 13 animations outside the lewd ones ? plus cinematics ? and it also seems like that WiaB will reach the 4K. But why is Leia dressed with a vampire costume ?
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Mrch is unrealistic. At least a week of actual work left he said in the log..then send to Steam (and whataver work Steam needs, cheevo's etc etc..possible DLC we don't know about). You know how long Steam can take to verify something and then make it live. Never going to happen in the next three weeks....and that's me saying that....more posts in this thread than anyone else on the forum, probably looking forward to it more than anyone else...

It just isn't going to happen that quickly...no matter how much we might want it to.

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But why is Leia dressed with a vampire costume ?
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yossa999 said:
Maybe it's a costume party and Leia is playing Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. Half the girls are wearing bunny ears there.
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Well...she is a vampire lol.
 
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yossa999 said:
Maybe it's a costume party and Leia is playing Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. Half the girls are wearing bunny ears there.
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I thought the same, but then they are stripers at the minimum and prostitutes at worst, bunnys outfit is somewhat common I would imagine, and Leia does not seem to partake in the clubs activities. Just find it funny.
 
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Maviarab said:
Mrch is unrealistic. At least a week of actual work left he said in the log..then send to Steam (and whataver work Steam needs, cheevo's etc etc..possible DLC we don't know about). You know how long Steam can take to verify something and then make it live. Never going to happen in the next three weeks....and that's me saying that....more posts in this thread than anyone else on the forum, probably looking forward to it more than anyone else...

It just isn't going to happen that quickly...no matter how much we might want it to.



Well...she is a vampire lol.
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Ocean going to wait for steam approval before he releases chapter 4 on Patreon?
 
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Maviarab said:
Mrch is unrealistic. At least a week of actual work left he said in the log..then send to Steam (and whataver work Steam needs, cheevo's etc etc..possible DLC we don't know about). You know how long Steam can take to verify something and then make it live. Never going to happen in the next three weeks....and that's me saying that....more posts in this thread than anyone else on the forum, probably looking forward to it more than anyone else...

It just isn't going to happen that quickly...no matter how much we might want it to.



Well...she is a vampire lol.
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True. I gather that SG was something of a of the curve and that normally Steam does not take so long to verify a game. Maybe to the release is a unrealistic expectation, but for the game to be done ? less so, if he finishes it by 20 of march still is a good time for size of the update and maybe with luck we have the update before 31 or first week of April.
 
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Maviarab said:
Mrch is unrealistic. At least a week of actual work left he said in the log..then send to Steam (and whataver work Steam needs, cheevo's etc etc..possible DLC we don't know about). You know how long Steam can take to verify something and then make it live. Never going to happen in the next three weeks....and that's me saying that....more posts in this thread than anyone else on the forum, probably looking forward to it more than anyone else...

It just isn't going to happen that quickly...no matter how much we might want it to.



Well...she is a vampire lol.
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We certainly know what to busy ourselves with in March, don't we? :Kappa:

So I personally wouldn't even mind if he spent some extra time polishing the game or adding some cool extra animation, and somewhere around the end of March, beginning of April would be just good for the release.
 
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yossa999 said:
We certainly know what to busy ourselves with in March, don't we? :Kappa:

So I personally wouldn't even mind if he spent some extra time polishing the game or adding some cool extra animation, and somewhere around the end of March, beginning of April would be just good for the release.
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Until then :ROFLMAO:
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I like the twins from the club and one of them is on the front, but other than that... that render is nothing breathtaking.
 
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