Status update Episode 2 (Patreon)

This week I mostly rendered animations but also a few scenes with static renders. The animation count is really coming along nicely... I'm not going to reveal the final count, yet, because it might increase.

All I can say is that it will kick Episode 1's ass. 54% of the animations have been rendered, but worth noting is that almost all long animations (8-17 seconds long) have been rendered to completion. The ones that remain are between 2-5 seconds long.

Today I counted the number of frames (1 frame = 1 static render) in the animations that are completed this far. I couldn't believe the final count. 3778 renders...and I'm not done yet.

To put that into perspective, Acting Lessons Episode 1-8 had ~5000 static renders. It is scary, but it's scary in a really good way.

This wouldn't be possible without you guys. You're the ones who've made it possible for me to upgrade my equipment to be able to handle this.

It can't be said enough, thank you all for the support. You make a huge difference in the development.

I've been writing a lot of dialogue this week and I just keep adding more scenes and thus more work for myself, but I know that the Episode will be so much better if I include those scenes.

I'm very close to wrapping up the final scene in terms of dialogue; this means I will have the boundaries for the Episode completed and have a better grasp of knowing how much work there's left to do.

After the dialogue is completed, what's left is to code the following things:

- Relationship and DIK scores

- Freeroam events

- Minigames

- Bios app

- Chat app

- A few more songs/sound effects

Other than that, it's just to continue to produce a large number of static renders and let the animations render to completion until the Episode is completed.

This weekend I plan to pose as many static renders as possible.

It's still too early to say a release date. But I'm so excited for this Episode!

Have a great weekend!

Dr PinkCake