Brecleas
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🕑 Added 2025-01-31 18:54:14 +0000 UTCI was wondering what to post that you might find interesting. After the Ask Me Anything session, maybe some of you would like to know more about the development process (struggles). Don't read if you don't want to know how the sausage is made (spoiler: it's messy π ).
To create the art for the game, I use Daz Studio. It's a fairly simple 3D application that focuses on posing characters, setting up lighting and cameras. When the scene is finished, it needs to be "rendered", which is when the computer simulates surface materials and real-world lighting to produce a nice looking, semi-realistic image. This process is computationally intensive. It requires a powerful graphics card (GPU) from nvidia (it uses nvidia's iRay technology) and it requires a lot of video memory because the models use a lot of detailed high-resolution textures that all need to be loaded into memory to render the image.
The time it takes to render a single image varies depending on the complexity of the scene, lighting and resolution. But let's say an average Gynocracy image takes about 15-20 minutes to render.
But what happens if the scene is too complex and doesn't fit in the video memory? Then all hell breaks loose. The rendering falls back from the graphics card to the computer's CPU. Today's CPUs are pretty fast, but they are not designed for this kind of task (unlike GPUs). So rendering a single image this way can easily take HOURS. Which means it's practically useless.
Why am I talking about this? Well, what consumes the most memory are the characters and their elaborate costumes. If there are more than 4-5 characters in the scene, there's a problem.
So what do I do? I come up with the brilliant idea of a wedding scene for chapter 10. Yes, Clare and Ryan are getting married and everyone important in Queen's Isle is invited. Dozens of characters in one scene. Very clever, Brecleas, very clever.
I had to use every dirty trick in the book to make it work. Using low resolution characters for backgrounds. Rendering parts of the scene separately and then stitching them together. Use clever camera angles and hide characters that are out of frame (I hate mirrors and reflective surfaces, by the way, they show everything). In short, game development is just like filmmaking - everything is fake, just smoke and mirrors.
All that said, working on Chapter 10 has been very time consuming so far. If I ever decide to make crowd scenes again, please stop meπ
But in the end, I'm quite happy with how the wedding images turned out. I hope you'll like them as well!
Comments
Brecleas
See this post, that's the latest version of the game: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-chapter-118707049
Aman
Where is link to download
Tarix
very pity, the preview is damn hot
Brecleas
I donβt have a release date estimate yet.
Tarix
What is the schedule. When will 10 be free to download?
Brecleas
No, the SLI tech is no longer supported by the new GPUs. So even though you could install two graphics cards, it wouldn't help with the memory constraints. The new RTX 5090 GPU "released" yesterday has 32 GB of memory, which is nice, but 1) it's not available anywhere 2) it will be super-expensive in the EU.
Frank Kuschmann
I did already tell you an option to reduce the crowd of Clare's wedding, at least to reduce it by one person but you didn't want to listen - lol (*smirk*). Finally Jayna is again to see, and how hot she looks, oh man! And John looks also very hot - lol. Was John's outfit the idea of Emily? I know once in the past there was the possibility to plug two graphic cards on the motherboard parallel to each other. Isn't that possible anymore?
Ebrithil
Previews are looking amazing. Chapter 10 is looking to become awsome!
Zairus
An excellent article π that explains to the average player the complexities of creating game graphics. And it's despite the fact that it still takes a lot of time to pose characters and furniture in the game.
Siman44
Either way i like what's being cooked up haha
