DebatingPanda

Development 0.4 - #6

Added 2025-07-20 22:09:38 +0000 UTC

Hello Pandalorians!

Over the past two weeks, I finished writing the scene I was working on and started rendering! This is actually the first time I'm working with a lot of new settings and quite a few updates to the overall rendering process. So far, I really like the resulting renders and the feedback has been great too! I'm looking forward to sharing some sneak peek renders as soon as I've got a bit more done.

Another topic: I'm currently working on a relatively dark scene - and to be honest, I quite like dark scenes in general. Sometimes it can be hard to tell the black tones apart, and on some devices you might just see a black hole, literally. I try to keep every scene bright enough so you can still see what's going on. Despite that, I've added a feature in the options menu that lets you offset or adjust the brightness of all images (see the attached screenshots for a comparison). What do you think, does this make sense for darker scenes? For bright scenes, you'd have to turn it off again, but it's still better than rendering two different versions: one for people who like them really dark and one for people who want them a bit lighter.

Also, if you're on Discord and didn't notice yet, there's now a commissions channel where I post commissions from everyone who's okay with sharing them publicly. Would it make sense to post them here too? There are more people on Discord than here on Patreon, so I'm not sure it would.

That's it for today! Have a great week ahead - stay hydrated and stay awesome!

-Panda