A few random renders
Added 2023-03-15 23:37:29 +0000 UTCRemind me not to try to reorganise my Daz 3D work drive and assets at midnight again...
For a few hours I appeared to have destroyed the relative addressing structure making all of the thousands of scenes I'm working on suddenly lose everything from textures and mattes to shaping morphs.
It was a bit of a twitchy moment, thinking that I'd ruined 8 years worth of work, when all I really wanted to do was clock off and go to sleep.
In the small hours of the morning I did manage to figure it out. It did require me to reinstall and reconnect all my content which took a while.
It turns out that it was actually a good thing, because dozens of my forgotten assets became visible again in my content library.
It really brought back a few old memories...
Of course, the best way to ensure things are working correctly is to render out a few images to test it all. It's sometimes nice to just pick a character and a location and just be creative away from the main storyline.
You may recognise the character above from her brief appearance in the original 'Date with Bridgette' game. She's not on a beach and she's wearing a bit more than in these images.
If you know who she is then please comment below...
It's rare that I render in square format aspect ratio. Shame really because I do like it...
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I've since caught up on a few hours of missed sleep and have been back up a running properly again today.
Chapter Nine is coming together now and just needs a few more elements completing before release.
Comments
Good idea. It'll make them easier to find for sure.
dsp3000
2025-03-28 12:10:06 +0000 UTCYou should place these renders/images in the general hi-res collections
Jim ACEP
2025-03-28 02:02:08 +0000 UTCWe are talking about Didi right? She's a dark horse that one... Many secrets in her personality to be revealed.
dsp3000
2023-03-25 18:53:38 +0000 UTCI don't want to spoil the ending of DwB for those who haven't experienced it yet, but I really hope the dynamic from the "Best" Ending sequence continues into later chapters (and hopefully sequels/spinoffs?). It's my absolute favorite part of the entire game, and there's SO much potential there for the future.
Will Forran
2023-03-18 17:04:05 +0000 UTCYeah, I was trying to network two machines so I could use one for rendering while I continued setting up scenes in Daz. I'm trying to speed up the production process. Daz has a great built in render engine in 3Delight, it's just a shame you can't easily run it as a stand-alone. Everytime you start a render you can't do anything else on that scene. The fact that everything relies on relative addressing for asset location means sharing files over a network or even a portable drive is far from straight forward too. I'd set up a big render farm if I could get Daz to play along.
dsp3000
2023-03-17 23:27:17 +0000 UTCNice ideas Ken... Individual dates are something I have thought about. I like Lola's mom too. You can see where Lola gets her appeal from. :)
dsp3000
2023-03-17 14:29:10 +0000 UTCI really hope we see more of her in later chapters. Lola's mom has always had an appeal for me, and these images are awesome. I read in a previous post where someone had asked for a solo path for Didi. I do not know what you have in mind after the Academe path is over, but a date with each faculty member, student and even Lola's mom would be something worth looking into maybe. I don't know if you could do that and replace Bridgett with another character and tweak some scenes and endings, but what do I know I just play the games I don't make them. I look forward to CH 9 and the rest of this series. Thanks, and keep up the great work.
ken mcdonald
2023-03-16 23:13:42 +0000 UTCI felt that entire first part. Daz Studio and stress just seem to go hand in hand. Reorganizing is never fun. Part of why I uninstalled. I couldn’t be bothered to deal with all the troubleshooting that comes with 3D art sometimes and I’m not much of a patient person. Duplicate files, broken morphs on a fully morphed character, missing textures, imports and exports. And that’s on top of the reorganizing, especially if you’re someone like me who didn’t reorganize until I already had over a TB of content. After sleepless nights of problem solving I just wanted to throw it all away. And then I finally did lol. The headaches were real.
DREAM
2023-03-16 00:36:28 +0000 UTCLola's mom, always blocking
murrthaniel
2023-03-15 23:41:53 +0000 UTCThank you for sharing these. They are fantastic,
BunnyRabbit
2023-03-15 23:41:17 +0000 UTC
