SeptCloudGames - Development Update - 12th of September
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Hey everyone,
I'll cut right to it, we mentioned last week that we realised there were some serious issues with the animations for the upcoming Realm 4 update, after we rendered them, which had already taken us a couple of weeks to render.
We're still fixing some of the issues, but we're currently rendering the first of several animations. This animation alone, including each angle, will take another five days to render, according to Blender (as you can see below).
Obviously, this isn't ideal, as we wanted to launch this update within the next couple of weeks.
The scene is well optimised; it's just big and quite long, so even with all our optimisations, it still takes a long time to render.
Right now, this makes it look like we won't be able to get the next chapter out this month.
The good news is that this shouldn't delay the overall Realm 4 completion, which we're targeting for the end of the year, but it is frustrating, as we wanted to share the next part of Realm 4 with you soon. However, it looks like this may take a little longer, and we're really sorry about that. It is still possible that, for some reason, the other outstanding animations render faster, and we can launch later this month, but right now, I'd say it's safer to assume it will be in October...
In the meantime, though, Tae has made great progress on Realm 5's writing. I've been enjoying reading through that and editing it in my downtime.
I will go ahead and fully "finalise" the code for Realm 4 over the coming weeks, so when we launch the remaining chapters, it should be a quick turnaround once we have the images and animations ready.
I haven't had a chance to publish the Realm 4 store page yet either, but atop this post is the Store Capsule Image!
Separately, we mentioned adding an Android port for ACTC. Next week, I may fix any small typos and make other minor updates before launching the Android version, and we'll put that slightly updated version out later this month!
Thanks for all of your ongoing support. We appreciate it very much!
We hope you have a fantastic weekend :)
Hey everyone,
I'll cut right to it, we mentioned last week that we realised there were some serious issues with the animations for the upcoming Realm 4 update, after we rendered them, which had already taken us a couple of weeks to render.
We're still fixing some of the issues, but we're currently rendering the first of several animations. This animation alone, including each angle, will take another five days to render, according to Blender (as you can see below).
Obviously, this isn't ideal, as we wanted to launch this update within the next couple of weeks.
The scene is well optimised; it's just big and quite long, so even with all our optimisations, it still takes a long time to render.
Right now, this makes it look like we won't be able to get the next chapter out this month.
The good news is that this shouldn't delay the overall Realm 4 completion, which we're targeting for the end of the year, but it is frustrating, as we wanted to share the next part of Realm 4 with you soon. However, it looks like this may take a little longer, and we're really sorry about that. It is still possible that, for some reason, the other outstanding animations render faster, and we can launch later this month, but right now, I'd say it's safer to assume it will be in October...
In the meantime, though, Tae has made great progress on Realm 5's writing. I've been enjoying reading through that and editing it in my downtime.
I will go ahead and fully "finalise" the code for Realm 4 over the coming weeks, so when we launch the remaining chapters, it should be a quick turnaround once we have the images and animations ready.
I haven't had a chance to publish the Realm 4 store page yet either, but atop this post is the Store Capsule Image!
Separately, we mentioned adding an Android port for ACTC. Next week, I may fix any small typos and make other minor updates before launching the Android version, and we'll put that slightly updated version out later this month!
Thanks for all of your ongoing support. We appreciate it very much!
We hope you have a fantastic weekend :)
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