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Haven's Port - Progress Report

Added 2020-07-14 23:34:32 +0000 UTC

Uggghhh. Okay. I can think the thinky thoughts and use the word things. Yes. Right. That's a thing I can do...

Soooo....I've been bashing my head against the stupidity that is Daz3d for the last four days. Since the last time I posted a progress report (4 days ago), I realized that a lot of my render-time issues seem to have stemmed from a recent update to Daz3d. Something which I only discovered after, suspicious of the trouble I was having, I attempted to render a scene from last month's Build 1, which I knew had only taken about 3 hours total. That same identical scene took over 8 hours this time. So...fuck you Daz3d developers, stop updating your software if it's going to make things worse every bloody time! Also, just for good measure, Fuck You Patreon Team, since I apparently can't both bold and italicize something at the same time in posts now, which I most certainly could do before. What the hell is up with people 'upgrading' their software to have less features/stability?!

Thankfully, despite being sabotaged by the stupidity of aforementioned Daz Developer jerks...I managed to find some workarounds of a sort to speed things up a bit. They are SUPER IRRITATING....mostly because they really SHOULDN'T work. But, using those methods, I've managed to bring the finished renders up to 4 scenes worth, with a 5th that should be finished by the time I crash tomorrow morning. I'm also planning to begin the coding for the update tonight (I honestly should have started yesterday, but I was totally wiped out).

Currently, I'm projecting that I'll get roughly 8-9 new scenes into Build 2. This is short of the 10 scene minimum that I was originally shooting for...but there's literally nothing I can do to fix that. I'm running into hard hardware/software limitations here, rather than something I can just put more hours of time into :-(. Hopefully, with the workarounds now worked out, next month will be better. I'm also trying to price out some options for building a rendering rig...though the costs there are high enough to leave me a little pale -_-. Still, it's something that would help a LOT if I can ever afford it....