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DoD:DE - Development Update #2 (And MP News)
🕑 Added 2021-01-18 19:38:21 +0000 UTCHey everyone
I have some news!
As I've said, I've been working on animating the sex scenes in DoD for the new Definitive Edition.
Now initially I expected there would be about 120-150 animations.
Well, I was wrong.
There are going to be 352 animations. And that's not counting any of the brand new scenes.
Which is good for you guys of course. However, that's gonna take some time to render.
(I'm not even gonna get into doing that many animations in this amount of time)
But, I thought something like this might happen, and that brings us to my next news.
I just finished building the new workstation. It posts, so that's good. Tomorrow I'll install windows and all the necessary software so it can take over as main workstation.
Currently it's air cooled, waiting for the watercooling parts to arrive. Should be here at the end of the month. Then I'm going to make the liquid cooling loop for both GPUs (yeah, "only" 2 GPUs this time) and for the CPU and VRM.
(Computer nerd talk here for a bit)
If you are interested, the new specs are:
- Motherboard: Asus Crosshair VIII Formula
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 5950x (16 cores 32 threads)
- RAM: 64 Gigs of G.Skill TridentZ RGB @3600Mhz CL16 (4 sticks)
- GPUs: 2 x RTX 3090 TUF OC
- PSU: Corsair AX1600i 80 plus platinum for good measure
- 2 X Samsung 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVME SSD
(I'm thinking about going RAID 0 on these)
- Another 4TB samsung sata ssd for work library storage
- And it's all in a Lian Li O11 Dynamic XL Case (white)
If you're not into computer parts, basically when I'm done with the liquid cooling, it's gonna be faster than my current workstation with only 2 GPUs instead of 4, meaning less noise, less heat production and less power draw.
And now what about the many animations?
Here's the idea: My current workstation is going to become a 24/7 Render Server. I will move it to a different space from where I work, so it won't bother me with heat and noise.
As soon as the new workstation takes over, this one will be rendering animations all day, while I can continue to work on the new workstation.
Now... Since the the animation render times are approaching 70+ days of 24/7 rendering, here's what I'm going to do.
I'll finish the animations and the new content for Dreams of Desire: Definitive Edition, then let it render on the render server. While that renders, I'm going back to work on Midnight Paradise - business as usual.
Once all the renders are done, we are ready to release!
Of course I'm going take a look at how can I cut down the massive render time of the DoD animations. I already thought of something that could take off a week, if not more of the total render time, so I can probably make that even faster. (not to mention, the new workstation can join in when it's not doing MP stuff)
Long story short, tons of animations, new content, but it's gonna take a while to render. In the meantime, I'll be able to bring you new Midnight Paradise updates much sooner! Ideally I'll be able to keep my original plan and be back to working on MP in February.
I think this is the best solution and you won't be without new MP content for too long:)
Let me know what you think.
See you guys on Wednesday in the next post!
And as always, a giant thank you to all of you for your great support!
-Dr Sin
Comments
Eisscrat
Nice setup
Lewdlab
Upon further research I’ve seen it can decrease iops, and the files I’m working with are not big enough for a raid to be useful. So, right, I should probably leave it as is
BullBA
Outstanding!
EvilHateMonkey
So when rendering you don't use SLI, that tech was mostly for gaming and never "really" adopted by most game devs. Basically, the more GPUs the more tiles being rendered simultaneously. So two GPUs will cut rendering time almost to one half. There's more to it, but that's the quick and dirty of it.
EvilHateMonkey
Don't think you should RAID your SSD's, my understanding is that it burns out the controller in the drive super quick. I think there are some exceptions like the WD RED SSD's. These are application tailored to take the constant read/writes of running a RAID, anyway, something to look into. Your new rig is a beast and I fully admit to some jealousy ;) Edit: Just did some fallow up reading and I was wrong, the memory cells themself are what ware out due to continuous read/writes. If you are interested. https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-ssds-solid-state-drives-work-increase-lifespan/
Hope you show us the best quailty :D
Klaus Hellnick
2xRTX 3090s? I am certain NVidia stopped using SLI. Do you have some sort of rendering software that actually can use both cards?
Jelan Star
Wow I had no idea that rendering requires such a powerful PC :O Looking forward to the new content!
Old Salt
Wow... sounds like a "mean machine!" Excellent!!
she is not only cute ;-)
Badass!
OJ
Wow, you’re an animal Dr!
