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Leap of Faith - Chapter 6 - Release Date

Illustrated Dev Diary, July 30th, 2021

So far, so good!

This week I haven't rendered a single image (what a horrible way to start a weekly update). On the other hand, I've been writing about 8,000 lines in Renpy, then removing 2,000 of them to avoid the chapter being an exposition dump and keep continuity.

About 2 hours ago I caught up with latest renders, and shifted my attention back to posing renders and animations. 2021-07-30 12:47:23 +0000 UTC View Post

Dev Diary, July 30th, 2021

So far, so good!

This week I haven't rendered a single image (what a horrible way to start a weekly update). On the other hand, I've been writing about 8,000 lines in Renpy, then removing 2,000 of them to avoid the chapter being an exposition dump and keep continuity.

About 2 hours ago I caught up with latest renders, and shifted my attention back to posing renders and animations. 2021-07-30 12:47:11 +0000 UTC View Post

Illustrated Dev Diary, July 23rd, 2021

It's been another week of making decent progress. I've been posing and rendering all week, and have finished almost all the visuals in all the scenes except for the ending. Mostly animations, but some story renders as well.

Next week I'll be at our summer house where I'll focus on catching up on the writing and scripting, before I move on to work on visualizing that long sequence of scene...

Dev Diary, July 23rd, 2021

It's been another week of making decent progress. I've been posing and rendering all week, and have finished almost all the visuals in all the scenes except for the ending. Mostly animations, but some story renders as well.

Next week I'll be at our summer house where I'll focus on catching up on the writing and scripting, before I move on to work on visualizing that long sequence of scene...

Illustrated Dev Diary, July 16th, 2021

I've been grinding away at the big scene I mentioned last week and it's all coming along, albeit at a slightly slower pace than normal.

To summerize, it takes 5 minutes to load the scene into Daz, and another 5 minutes to clear the scene. I'm also overshooting my 64gb of ram and 24gb of vram, so render initialization takes another 5 minutes. Also, 5 people in a scene means 150 finger join...

Dev Diary, July 16th, 2021

I've been grinding away at the big scene I mentioned last week and it's all coming along, albeit at a slightly slower pace than normal.

To summerize, it takes 5 minutes to load the scene into Daz, and another 5 minutes to clear the scene. I'm also overshooting my 64gb of ram and 24gb of vram, so render initialization takes another 5 minutes. Also, 5 people in a scene means 150 finger join...

Illustrated Dev Diary, July 9th, 2021

There's some things to cover this week, so I'll jump right into it.

Progress

First of all, it's been an extremely productive week. I think I've rendered more than I've done in any single week before. In addition to that I spent 2 days building what will be the centrepiece scene of this chapter and completed the light-test renders (which I don't add to the render cou...

Dev Diary, July 9th, 2021

There's some things to cover this week, so I'll jump right into it.

Progress

First of all, it's been an extremely productive week. I think I've rendered more than I've done in any single week before. In addition to that I spent 2 days building what will be the centrepiece scene of this chapter and completed the light-test renders (which I don't add to the render cou...

Illustrated Dev Diary, July 2nd, 2021

No talk of hot 3090's this week. In fact I did no further testing at all. In the end it took the fun out of this and left me feeling burned out and uninterested.

Instead, I decided to sit down and push forward with the story in HD, and I had a blast doing so which the render count increase for this week should confirm, which is now at 648 story renders and 7,135 animated frames. The quali...

Dev Diary, July 2nd, 2021

No talk of hot 3090's this week. In fact I did no further testing at all. In the end it took the fun out of this and left me feeling burned out and uninterested.

Instead, I decided to sit down and push forward with the story in HD, and I had a blast doing so which the render count increase for this week should confirm, which is now at 648 story renders and 7,135 animated frames. The quali...

Illustrated Dev Diary, June 25th, 2021

I really enjoyed working on Chapter 6 this week as I finally got a chance to dip into more of the more serious part of the story, and I have been steadily grinding away at posing and rendering.

I did notice that the 3090 vram temperature is at a steady 92C when rendering in 4k. After checking in with Kentyrr and Stoya who did test renders just to give me some referring values, I could con...

Dev Diary, June 25th, 2021

I really enjoyed working on Chapter 6 this week as I finally got a chance to dip into more of the more serious part of the story, and I have been steadily grinding away at posing and rendering.

I did notice that the 3090 vram temperature is at a steady 92C when rendering in 4k. After checking in with Kentyrr and Stoya who did test renders just to give me some referring values, I could con...

Dev Diary, June 18th, 2021

Weekend once again!

I really wanted to do story renders this week, but realized it's almost summer and that means people will be around the house for both early and late hours. In short, I had to finish up the two lewd scenes I was working on, instead of worrying of curious eyes.

At least those scenes are completely done now, and for the next weeks I'll concentrate on the story itse...

Dev Diary, June 11th, 2021

First of all some good news, and for those that doesn't know it yet, I was finally able to get a hold of a 3090 GPU this week. That, alongside new PSU, completes my rendering rig for now, making the whole process from posing and pre-rendering a whole lot faster as I don't have to minimize lighting anymore, or compress textures to avoid using more memory than my previous GPU could handle.

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Dev Diary, June 4th, 2021 - and a thank you!

As we step into another month and seeing you are still here on Patreon, I wish to take a few moments of your time to express my gratitude for your support.

My motivation isn't to get rich or earn big bucks, but to put my story out there in the best way I'm able to. And with your support, you help give me the tools to do so. Everything from Patreon goes back into the game in form of Hardwa...

Illustrated Dev Diary, May 28th, 2021

This time I'd like to say something about the actual progress of the story and not so much about the technicalities of actually making it.

I've finished the prologue, the actual intro, and as of right now I just rendered out the last image from the first girls path. Meaning, that I've got three more girls to cover - in addition to all the intermediate scenes connecting it all together. So...

Dev Diary, May 28th, 2021

This time I'd like to say something about the actual progress of the story and not so much about the technicalities of actually making it.

I've finished the prologue, the actual intro, and as of right now I just rendered out the last image from the first girls path. Meaning, that I've got three more girls to cover - in addition to all the intermediate scenes connecting it all together. So...

Custom Renders, April 2021

Also, as a side note, when creating Lexi (level of fame and fortune), I used Rihanna as a "model", so one of these customs hit right home.

U-u-u-um-brella, ella, ella. :)

edit:
Ok, so I made a slight mistake this month and forgot to limit the custom render post to the correct tiers. Which means you can all see it. Well, the error is on me so I'll leave it standing (as you...