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Chapter 5 - Dev Log #7
🕑 Added 2023-06-28 16:54:51 +0000 UTCHello,
So, first the two bad news.
If you saw the last WiAB Dev Log, you can skip the music part.
From the last WiAB Log:
"So, I got a lovely E-Mail around a week ago, where I was informed that Elijah Fords Management has changed, and they advised him to pull out all the music from previous deals.
"But Ocean, didn't you make a contract?"
Yes, but I was/am a poor bitch and couldn't afford to make a big one-time payment for each song, and instead paid them a monthly fee...
Elijah Ford's music is going to be removed from both games. Late Kids music will most likely stay.
I'm currently negotiating a new contract with them and they agreed to my offer. (1250€ for each song). With this, I'll cover SG and WiAB season 1.
They're also about to release new music soon, and if I like their new stuff, I'll license more from them.
Sadly, I'm losing one of my favorite songs... Every Night, which isn't directly owned by Late Kids, but by Elijah.
It was an exception back then, that I went for the monthly fee thingy... But I just couldn't afford a more secure option & desperately needed music.
"Some Days" & "Run" will stay if Late Kids agrees to the contract, which was professionally made by my lawyer.
I'm not ever going to buy a license again, that isn't completely safe.
WiAB will be hit much harder by this, as WiAB is a full-fledged adult game with pornographic content.
While SG Season 1 isn't and this gives me a lot more options.
The way to move forward is by contacting artists personally and offering them a contract... I said that last year, and I'm going to be totally honest here.
I only contacted a handful of artists...
I absolutely hate it. I hate spending hours writing back and forth.
I hate negotiating with artists whose music nobody knows, and they think that their song is worth a good 4-digit sum.
I must also admit that I'm still bitter when it comes to music. Having to remove songs that I had prepared for years really left a scar on me.
So many cinematics died with them."
--------------------------------End of music section
2. The Workstation.
Finally, after months of waiting on the German bureaucracy, I finally got everything I needed to apply for the loan to get the Workstation.
And guess what? Germany's bureaucracy fucks me again... even harder this time.
I'm not getting the loan. They said there's not a single chance...
And the best part? The reason.
The reason is that I moved not that long ago, and also had to close and reopen my business. (I had to do this because I moved states within Germany. It requires you to do so.)
So yeah, I'm not getting a loan that every single average fuck in Germany would've gotten because I moved across Germany and was forced to close and reopen my business. (They told me that in the E-mail.)
Every other point is 10000% covered. My credit score is perfect.
I have good reserves (Enough to actually buy the workstation itself at once. But it would put me in a very uncomfortable position... So that's a no-go.)
Enough liquid income from your support to cover the entire loan in 3-5 months.)
Germany just does it again.
My last hope is now that the Steam launch will be a real success to buy it at once without a stupid bank involved.
Otherwise, I'll have to take the A6000 from WiAB and put it into SG's workstation.
Chapter 6 SG is an update full of scenes with 20+ people. And because SG is carrying the entire development train. WiAB will have to give up its GPU if I can't finance the Workstation until then.
But in the end, both games would suffer if I had to switch GPUs.
The A6000 is much slower than two 3090s, but the 3090s can't even render the scenes.
Meanwhile, I won't be able to render the big scenes in the WiAB update on the 3090s.
I'm just frustrated because I thought it was a sure thing... There's still some time left until Chapter 6 SG.
Not as much as you might think (;
Tomorrow, I will call my house bank and see what they have to say. I don't have high hopes and asking for an alternative loan will leave a bad mark on my credit score but what the fuck can I do?
The good news about all of this. I'm so productive, I'm outperforming all GPUs so hard.
SG is around 1350 rendered images in. SG has 310 renders left in the queue, and I'd say around 450 renders are left to set up for the update to finish. (Chapter 5.)
So I set up 1610 still renders alone for SG in around 53 SG days. (Total of 107 days since development started for Ch5. Divided by two as every other day is WiAB.)
WiAB also has like 180 renders in the queue.
The Cinematic for SG Chapter 5 has also been completely finished. (1:32min)
"The flesh is strong. The machines are weak."
Previews: 4K attached.
So, there are two scenes in Chapter 3 that needed to be changed. With the new Chapter 2 rework, Claire gets an updated model and HQ hair.
So I already finished one scene on my off day.
It's actually good that the scene had to be changed. Because I hated Bella's outfit. It didn't fit at all. (Considering that she had a little breakdown right before that.)
Old Scene:
Some new ones:
Claire's new model (Now closer to Amber to highlight their relationship.)
I didn't change any dialogue and just updated the renders.
I also think I show too many previews. In the future, I will limit the previews to 2 images per Dev Log.
So here's another image of Chapter 5.
I'll see you in the next log and thank you for your support! Without you, I couldn't even think about trying to finance that beast of a workstation.
- Ocean
Comments
Malachor Remnant
german bureaucracy is a nightmare.
Oceanlab
Always take care of yourself first, I'll manage! :)
EricZ
I'm considering upgrading my pledge to help with the music stuff.
