Hello everyone,
Last week was one of the weaker ones.
I spent some time writing the different endings and outcomes of the event, and realized I needed to reopen a few parts, add some renders and dialogue, fix some variable issues, that kind of thing. Nothing too major, but for some reason, my brain really struggles to reopen a scene once it has checked it off as "done." So yeah, I was pretty slow this week.
It also doesn't help that I've managed to give myself sciatica, and one of the downsides is that sitting for too long is now very painful. I'm hoping to get that fixed soon, but getting treated here isn't exactly fast.
On the hardware side of things, after a few crashes and unexpected restarts from one of the rendering PCs, I decided to upgrade the RAM in all of them, bumping them from 64GB to 128GB. I'm hoping it'll help, since my workstation has been feeling a little slow lately, and that it will let me fully take advantage of those 5090s. I read somewhere that having three times the amount of VRAM in regular RAM is recommended, so I should be covered now.
On a more positive note, I did quite a bit of writing. Nothing extravagant, but I finished writing this conclusion from start to finish, including the last LEWD scene. Since parts of it have a lot of characters present, I'm hoping each render won't take too long to pose and that I'll be done with it before the end of this week.
I actually really enjoyed writing the conclusion scenes with all the different outcomes. I may end up adding a little more content to them, but if I do, it'll be next month, after I'm done working on DAY 3 of this episode. I need to get my mind out of this lake house, or I may start decapitating some LIs.
The French yearns for the Guillotine.
Now, let's talk numbers:
Static renders: 3,475Animations: 134Story content: 49 scenes written (47,656 words)
That's an extra 127 renders since last week. I'll be honest, I'm pretty disappointed with that number. I know I've been slow lately, and the time spent on this event has been weighing on me.
The heat isn't helping either. My bedroom reached a mind-blowing 28 degrees today. I'm working on a solution for that, but in the meantime, it means I can't run my PCs for a full 16 hours a day. I need to shut them down earlier so I can at least try to fall asleep in a somewhat cooler room. It means queues are getting larger, which is stressful.
My brain has been sluggish all week, especially with the injuries, but it is what it is. Lesson learned, I'll do better this week.
I'm thinking I'll take a day off before getting started on the LEWD scene this week, assuming everything goes according to plan. Just trying to get a little energy back in the tank before tackling the final scene of this event and day.
Anyway, that's it for this progress update.
I've got to get back to work, and in the meantime, I hope you all have a great week.
MisterSciaticaPS: Can you guess who is in the preview picture, Gigi, Fifi or Lili? ;)