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Summer's Gone - Season 2 - Chapter 1 - Dev Log #32
🕑 Added 2025-05-21 15:21:17 +0000 UTCHello,
So, the past two weeks were mostly spent on background work again. I’m currently dealing with Steam & GOG, coding, polishing, as well as preparing for my move.
I’ve also met up with friends in the past days as I won’t be able to see them anymore soon.
It’s kinda sad now that I think about it. I always worked and always brushed them off with “Soon Bro.”
I guess knowing that I will leave Berlin for good in less than a month affects me more than I thought it would. I think it’s more melancholy than nostalgia.
But it’s for the good of the games.
I’ve done about 3 to 4 hours of dedicated SG rendering on the days that I could. I created about 317 renders. Part of them new ones, part of them replacing the scene where I changed the environment.
I will get back to the usual counting of the renders (Total + added) as soon as I’m done with what’s going on.
However, I keep coming back to two of the renders I recently made. I think they’re absolutely beautiful. The emotion and mood they carry. They have the potential to be my favorite renders of the update.
They’re really special… The person with whom they are… Probably just as special. (I’m not going to preview them. You’ll have to wait.)
They have a certain stillness about them, yet that silence portrays so much emotion.
More clothies.
I’ve used the new simulations in four or five animations I’ve done recently.
But yesterday I found another nemesis.
In one of my animations the clothes kept desyncing from the character… As if the clothes were worn by a ghost, they just left.
It took me 14 hours to find out why. And the fix isn’t great, so I have to keep in mind that certain types of animations in Daz3D won’t really work with it.
I was so frustrated that at some point I just wanted to go to the gym a second time to let off steam.
But with that figured out. It takes less than 10minutes to apply the cloth sim to an animation and export it back.
I also only use it for animations or VERY special still renders. I still mostly use Zbrush.
World Map
In my free time (I don’t have free time) I started drawing a world map of Wollust.
It’s currently just a draft but as soon as I have it done, I will get in contact with a 2D artist to turn it into something beautiful.
It will be cute to have.
Weird.
Since I did the post work for 9000 renders (All projects combined) I feel a bit ‘drained’.
It’s better now that I upped my cardio & gym regiment to 6 days a week, but over the past two weeks, my vision would randomly blur, and I felt extremely mentally drained.
But that’s just what Post work does to me. It’s always been like that. It’s never been this bad, but technically I did 4 ½ updates worth of post work at once.
I can’t keep doing it like this in the future. I need to do like 2 to 3 hours of post work every Sunday.
I’ve not been this close to the sun, since SG’s Chapter 3 was released.
This is a good time to look back on the past year.
It’s pretty much exactly one year since the current updates went into development.
And in June 2024 SG S2 CH1 went into development.
In the span of almost a year, I’ve created more than 10.000 still renders and who knows how many animation frames. (All projects combined.)
If it wasn’t for the damn Steam/GOG preparations, it would probably already be close to 12.000 renders.
I need to be more mindful of this.
I can’t treat the current update the same as I treated the previous ones. It’s four times as big as Chapter 5, and Chapter 5 took a year to make.
From May 2024 to May 2025, in render count, I created Chapter 5 – five times.
The update you’re getting this year would’ve taken four years to make by last year’s standards.
I get DMs of people asking me to be faster. And if I get a few DMs of it, it means even more think that in silence.
As I told them, cancel the sub until the update is out.
The last thing I want is for someone to build a grudge against the game they like and support because it takes too long.
If you find yourself in the position where you start getting mad, cancel your subscription and think about resubscribing after Chapter 1 is out.
Two previews today
I thought Beany looked cute here.
The way the evenings feel in the summer.
Every few days that pass, I’ll be able to dedicate more and more time to SG, until we’re at 40-70 images a work-day again.
I will soon have to forcefully take a day or two off, as I will have to paint and fix the apartment before I move out.
I have a few more things that I’d like to talk about… Like the reason why I will soon get a mini-greenscreen. About the size of two monitors.
I will talk about it in the next Log.
- Ocean
Comments
Avaricious
Take your time dude! As eager as I am to play the next stage I don't want you to feel like you have to push yourself too much and burn out. Ignore the neigh Sayers and you do you. The game is amazing already and will continue to be in the future, of that I have no doubt. Take care of yourself my dude!
Sousou Gnom
About the release date - yes... the sooner the better... BUT I like this game... I like the story with my heart and I want this game completed. So, my support will never end because of a little delay :-) Take your time... your health is more important then everything else.
