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Status update Episode 10
🕑 Added 2023-04-07 08:26:05 +0000 UTC
I started the week posing static renders and finished a longer Jill scene. After this, I revisited the planning phase for episode 10, trying to map out the remaining events on the episode timeline and plan some more.
I checked what I'd done and what was left to do, and visually seeing this progress made me realize that episode 10 would be another big one. I believe I have mapped out close to everything I want in the episode now, which feels great.
Then I spent part of the week writing dialogue and coding for the phone and generally had a very good flow.
I've done a lot so far, especially when you account for most of the mini-games being completed and added to the episode, but I have plenty of manual labor left.
I counted the segments on the timeline and found that I have created 29/51 (57%) parts and have 22/51 (43%) parts left to create.
Of those remaining 22 parts, 4 are free-roam events (two small ones, one medium-sized, and one long), and the rest are lewd and normal scenes. The parts range from short to long, and some include multiple different scenes and variations.
I've been bumping my render and animation quality in Season 3, but my render power has more or less stayed the same for quite some time now. I decided to invest a lot more into hardware and am currently in the process of upgrading my systems with 4090s and building brand-new rigs.
It's unreal to me that I can do this at this scale. My thoughts go back to the first year of development when I had a single PC with one 1080 Ti and had to wait months to afford more RAM. I'm immensely thankful for being able to do this upgrade, and it's all thanks to you guys.
At the moment, I have upgraded my systems with +50% extra render power. Shortly, I plan to increase that to roughly 90% total extra power compared to before the upgrade. This means these upgrades will almost double my render speed, pushing the bottleneck further toward manual labor - which is me sitting by the PC working.
The upgrade I did this week immediately affected my render queue. I have 0 static renders in the queue for the first time in months, and only 26 animations remain. I believe these animations will be done within 1-2 weeks.
The good thing now is knowing that the renders and animations I pose will render twice as fast. This puts more pressure on my manual work but alleviates the waiting time at the end of the development cycle.
As I already see results from the PC upgrade, I will return to posing animations next week.
I love the game development right now, and the hardest thing for me is to choose what I want to work with every day because there are a lot of fun scenes left to create. Let's fucking go!
Have a nice weekend
Dr PinkCake
Comments
undertherox
indeed, letβs fucking go!! -hyped
Tim Adams
yes. as a Patron you will get a binary load that you can place anywhere the common DLL structure of a Steam game really would be a pain to untangle
ian giles
yeah got that bit, but would i not need the patreon game version first ?, since i,ve already bought the steam versions, I actually was asking if it would be released on steam or not, so i can rate the game off as having finished or not
CΓ©drik Lavoie
It will be released when it is finished. You can become a Patreon member and when you pay for a certain tier, you can play the episodes when they are finished. Episode 9 was finished a few months ago and Patreon members who had the tier were able to download and play it.
Bringn_Da_Pain
Could be a beach, a lake, or skiing in the mountains. kids do a lot of different activities depending on the part of the world you live in. Waterskiing on a lake and paintball in the woods could be fun, deep sea fishing and shore town antics would be cool, and skiing and winter activities would also be cool. Before they close out the series, I hope they have some sort of Greek games between the frats.
ian giles
As above new to all this, just finished seasons 1 n 2 from steam, will season 3 not be released on steam ?
Arta
Episode 9 is the newest upgrade, and episode 10 is under development. Once it's ready, it'll be released and ready to be downloaded.
Aubrey Stark
okay I'm a bit new to this, I got on here because, love the dik game lol idk how all this works , can we play season 3 on here or what i just got me a pc so i dont know how to operate all of this. let me know plz
Tom Cruise Missile
Obligatory beach episode?
My Name is Nobody
Keep up the great work Doc U are the Gold Standard for this genre of games π€π€π€
Bringn_Da_Pain
Dr. Pinkcake, do you intend to have the DIK's participate in a Spring Break episode?
Brian Sweeney
Yeah man, I always worry about the Dr due to him doing this himself but it's great to hear he's at a good pace and happy with it.
Gmoney
This is amazing to hear, makes me hopefully for future episodes!!! WOOHOO (:
Markus Be
I hope episode 10 will soon be up and available to download as i been waiting eagerly for more content :)
Kyle Clawson
Yo, I'm stoked that you're pumping out this clone series. It's dope. For the next set could you clone yourself and all your computers? If we do it enough times we could get into exponential progress XD
Timothy L Harris
You deserve several awards for what you have accomplished with BAD. It's simply a masterpiece that I will be front an center for along the entire magical ride. P.s. "We need an entire game after this series all about being married to Jill Royce" - Men of culture
Albert O
Thanks :)
Mangetsu
I agree, you're setting the AVN standard with your level of quality π€£ Not saying you should ever diverge from your vision and goals, but if you keep pushing the boundaries, nobody will be able to catch up π That being said, thanks for answering, interesting stuff! And the quality since interlude has been astounding!
Beautiful Bro
I really love this energy! I'm getting fucking hype for episode 10!
DrPinkCake
It depends on the hardware of the PC slave that render the animation in question. But all things rendered over time, yes, time would almost be cut in half. Then you have other factors to consider when you're rendering. As I mentioned, I have increased my render quality. This means more time is spent per frame/render. Comparing the time it takes to render one image from, let's say, episode 5 and episode 10, we're looking at a 3-fold increase in time for the latter. But for the quality of how things are now, the upgrade would almost make it double speed. If I push render quality higher, this gain in speed is slowly lost with each upgrade I make. I don't know how high I will keep pushing it. But I'm happy at the moment with my current settings for Season 3. They haven't changed since the Interlude.
Justin Richardsn
nice and great job on coming this far
Patrick McGrath
You are a true software engineer, my man. You do you and create the world for us to live in - keep the ambition high and find opportunities to optimize. Great work!
Scott
Sounds great DPC. Love the enthusiasm. I am more than happy to do my part. Love the flow. Manual labor is a pita. I'm happy you're happy. Have a great weekend.
Mangetsu
Does this mean that your crazy render times you've referenced in the past (48 days for a single animation) will be literally cut in half? I'd be curious to hear if the new render power actually leads to that much improvement!
cakez
As a massive PC nerd I'd love to see the systems you're running/building!
Arta
Love your profile picture π
Pgd.Marshall
Goddamn this guy is good. Keep it up Doc!
BossLoaf
Fantastic update, man! It's great to hear about the new rigs and your excitement is contagious. Your work ethic is legendary, so the fact that there will be less arbitrary wait times with renders means that we'll be getting the same quality product potentially even sooner. You deserve it DPC. Have a great week!
Jdog
Thats great news, however I still say TAKE YOUR TIME!!! LOL we aint goin nowhere. I dare you to add more content to the great content you have given us!! LOL
RG
Such an awesome update to read DPC! was really intrigued by this quote here "Currently in the process of upgrading my systems with 4090s " i would love to hear what brand you are looking at, I want to upgrade mine too for things related also to 3D modeling (Blender in my case) :) but overall awesome update thanks for catching up! ^^
Arta
That's amazing! Have a lovely weekend DPC
Chris M.
Thanks for the update. My mind can't comprehend all of the computer upgrade stuff but I DO understand that the novel will benefit from it. Thank you for all of your hard work and all that you do. I'm patiently waiting for the next episode with baited breath. Enjoy your weekend DPC.
Thor von Fiddle
With DPC being in Sweeden we better get him a wind turbine too.
Sirloki
We will have to get him some solar panels
RMZ
For the next FAQ I'd really like to know what your energy bills look like lol
Kurmblog
Amazing update, Have a great weekend!
Justin
Great to hear! Glad you were able to upgrade your rig to better assist in your development process Doc. Looking forward to episode 10!
Drako07Spyder
Thanks for the update! Excited for the next episode.
ChickenBall
PC upgrades are awesome and feel good. Love this for you!
Animal6311
I soo can't wait! Thanks for all the updates and hard work :)
flogjam
RTX 4090s are beastly cards. I got onat launch and have to limit it for some things. It's a 4k monster π» π½. Keep up the good work
DimitrisAssassin
I thing now that the story in the game has evolved so much with all those branches and different scenes for each of them it's only natural that the episodes will get bigger longer and more complicated, personally I like that very much and I hope you still have fun developing it !
Tyler Robbins
Awesome to hear! +90% must feel amazing
Dentheman
Dame, all your enthousiasme is good news for us. Can't wait for the next episode. Keep up the great work
andre kohler
Great
NeverEnoughHats
I'm glad you are having so much fun lol
Grob Az
DPC = GOAT
Geralt of Ashkelon
Cheers, Doc. Have a nice weekend.
Lucas Santos
Thanks for the update Doc have e nice weekend
Branden Jensen
Awesome to hear man! I'm jealous of the upgrades, but since you will be providing us with even more quality without having to sacrifice time to render it, I'm sure I'll get over the jealousy. :P
Mat B.
Let's fucking goooooo! New rig, Big Episode, Better Quality, Quite a dent done on the to-do list, DPC loves what he's doing. Bros, today is a good fucking day.
Tinman
I guess your update is one of the few good things I had this week.
Albert O
nice
Big A
Thank you things getting interesting more play throughs needed and I've done a lot lol
Ahlex
Have a good weekend too DR!!
Mr Rkoon
Thanks for the update Doc. Have a great weekend
