Hey, everyone. Hope you are all doing good. I wanted to quickly update you on something for the upcoming month. Few days ago, I started having major issues with my PC. The monitor started shutting down and the PC was freezing out of the blue whenever I tried to render anything and then the monitor wouldn't turn back on. I went back and forward to a local repair shop to find out what the problem was and eventually we found out it was the video card that was causing the problems. It wasn't the monitor or cables, since the monitor worked with my integrated video card from my CPU. So I was forced to take out the video card and send it back using my warranty, but the repair shop can take up to 30 days to find the issue and send back a replacement card. The card was sent few days ago so it's already being looked at.There's good and bad news about this.The good news is that I can still make scenes since my computer has an integrated video card that it can use thanks to my CPU. But that video card is very weak and can only do basic tasks, which takes us to the bad news, which is that it's not capable of rendering. My current (broken) video card is Nvidia 4090 RTX and you can imagine the difference it makes. I have a very good CPU as well, but the renders in Daz Studio require a decent video card for fast renders, not a CPU. So it's like being in a sports car race and using a horse instead. It just doesn't work for the amount of renders required per month. It forces me to skip a release update next month because of the situation and I am terribly sorry for this. I just don't see how it can happen, as we are already approaching the end of the month and the update is still not ready. I also worked simultaneously on the second chapter of Lara Croft and had to stop there midway as well because of this. I hope they resolve the issue and send back the replacement fast so I can just speed render everything that is on the backlog at the moment. I'll postpone the Public update for 0.31 by a month.Also, I can show a very early preview of (some of) the characters that will be present in the next game. This is still early WIP and things can change, but you can have a general idea about how they might look like. I also plan on having 1 (faceless) male protagonist. I might make a poll about the protagonist for Patrons to vote on it. Still some time until then, but yeah.Here's an early version of (some of) the characters in the next (WIP) Game: The characters include a family that you will be staying with, school friends, girlfriend, a prostitute & more. Stay tuned for more updates about the game in the near future. I tried to make them vary and be unique, both in size and what they are wearing and personalities. I hope they are diverse enough.And here's some screenshots from Pandora's Box 2 [0.31]'s update:
There will be sex scenes between Scarlet and the Headmaster (hidden, but implied), between Scarlet's mom and her boyfriend Tucker. Also, an optional sex scene between Scarlet and Tucker, if Ellie allows it. Nadia will have her own sex scene and more planned.
P.S. I can continue to post previews of the scenes I am working on without my card (in the texture shaded window) just so you can see that I am making progress. These scenes might look unfinished, but all they need is for me to render them to look like the ones up there ^, the posing and lighting will all be done, basically.Example:I will also make a few extra portraits and wallpapers, again, to compensate for next month. Thanks for understanding and your amazing support.