Being A DIK Episode 9 - Preview #7: Zoey

SUMMER'S GONE 07.06.2022

SUMMER'S GONE 07.06.2022

SUMMER'S GONE…..07.06.2022

Status update Episode 9

I continued to work on art this week. I produced both static renders and animations.

I completed a couple of long and short scenes, and I completed work on two lewd scenes.

It feels like I have a good flow and no question of what I should work on every day.

I have a lot of art to produce - thousands of renders - and I am focusing on this.

At the moment, I'm working on art for something new that I think is one of the cooler features in episode 9.

The long animation queue I talked about several weeks ago has finally depleted, and the PCs are working on new animations I've lined up for them.

Thanks to everyone who voted in last week's survey regarding previews. Although votes are split, there are some trends I have reflected upon.

It's impossible to please everyone, but most of you don't want to see any costume spoilers, so I'll try to limit them in previews.

And if I choose to post something, I'll make sure to hide the image as an attachment so you can choose if you want to see it or not.

Some episodes will be like this when previews can spoil the episode badly, and it's too hard to find something worth showing. I had the same issue during the development of the final two episodes of Acting Lessons.

It feels comforting knowing that most of you are fine with not seeing renders if it were to spoil content. But as a creator, I still want to create and give you content monthly, between updates. Posting nothing has never sat right with me, so I felt I needed to do this survey in the first place.

I'll have a new poll up and running early this month.

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake

Summer's Gone

Status update Episode 9

I was going to work on art this week, but I continued writing and couldn't stop myself. I've been writing different scenes with many different characters. I have been focusing on making sure most events of the episode are in place, even if they aren't fully written yet.

I keep adding stuff I want to see in the episode, and I'm working with a cast of 70+ characters that need screen time - so it is a challenge when it comes to limiting ideas and scenes while also piecing together parallel storylines.

I've said in the past that I'm trying to make the episode smaller than episode 8 - because the trend so far is that each episode gets bigger and bigger. I've realized that it's too hard for me to do that for episode 9 in some areas.

Currently, the writing of episode 9 is at \~90% in size compared to episode 8. I believe nearly all events are mapped out now, give or take a handful.

I have 43 scenes, ranging from short to long, left to write, or complete writing. This is why I believe I will overshoot the episode 8 size in terms of writing.

I have barely started writing phone content, so this also remains in the writing department.

At the moment, I believe I'm unlikely to overshoot the animation count, but the render count might be close to that of episode 8. Time will tell what the size will be.

You'll likely be very happy if you wish for a content-filled episode that requires more than five playthroughs to see everything.

When it comes to art, I estimate that 80% of the environments needed for the episode are designed and have the lighting in place; this usually takes a lot of time. Similarly, I estimate that 90% of the characters needed for the episode have their costumes/wardrobe decided and prepared to be imported into the scenes. I'm confident that art production will take off fast once I return to it.

I will continue letting the flow decide what I'm working on next week.

On the animation front, PCs are chugging on. Two workstations are rendering two rather long animations, and they have been at it for 14 days each. Previewing the work they've done with these long animations, they were worth the time spent rendering.

95 animations are fully produced.

Poll news

In this week's poll, option 4 was the winning option and will be featured in episode 9 as Riona's Halloween costume.

Thanks for voting!

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake

Being A DIK

Cosmetic Pool Riona

Status update Episode 9

I spent another week writing and coding free roam events. I've been working on something new, pretty cool and perhaps even a bit scary, in this area that I hope most will enjoy.

PCs are rendering animations as usual without issues. They have been working on some long animations lately. I still have 26 animations in the queue, and with most of them being fairly long, I think I have at least two more weeks before the queue finishes.

Next week, I will work on static renders and more animations to get a break from writing.

**Poll news**

In this week's poll, Jill won and will get a special render set in episode 9. The special render set polls for episode 9 are now complete, meaning that Josy and Jill will get their own sets.

I have been struggling to find a good cosmetic poll for this episode. As I've mentioned, Halloween costumes have already been determined due to my writing. It will be easier to come up with cosmetic polls in the future, but this episode is special in this area.

I did come up with one cosmetic poll that will go live tomorrow. You'll help decide which variation of Riona's costume she will wear at the Halloween party. Sign up as a $10 patron to vote when the polls are live.

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake

Summer's Gone Chapter 4 - Bibi Log #15
Hello,

So, welcome to a new Bibi Log.

As the name suggests, it's a Bibi (Baby) log and it will be pretty small and to the point.

I'm currently 600/2250 images into Postwork.

But I must also admit that I wasn't focused on Postwork yet... As I'm currently handling the end cinematic.

And the End cinematic is quite heavy on the Vram.

And Lightroom is some sort of Drama Queen that tends to slurp up as much Vram as it can.

So I can't really do postwork while rendering without risking a CPU fallback in Daz. (When the Vram runs out and it drops back to CPU.)

Even though I have two 3090s in the Workstation, a 120 frame animation takes up to 14 hours... So there's still a lot of room for speed improvements.

The End Cinematic is almost finished. It's around 85% done and 1:07min long.

So an average length.

After the end cinematic I only need to finish a cinematic from earlier in the Update. It's also already 80% done and I'll just need to add the last 20%. It's also much easier on the Vram.

In other news...

As many know, with the Steam release, I will remove a lot of music from the game... I'm currently still in the clear but as soon as certain content is added, I will have to remove the music.

This means that multiple cinematics will pretty much be "useless"... As they're all tailored to the music... This includes all the cinematics in Chapter 4.

Why am I still doing them even though I will have to remove them?

It's about more than just a nice video... I've been envisioning some cinematics for a few years now...

I've been looking forward to them since early 2020... Listening to the songs over and over again, playing the cinematics out in my head... I couldn't wait until we got into the later Chapters and I could finally do them.

Now that many of them will sadly stay nothing but a vision, I will still finish those that I legally can before the nuke.

It makes me unbelievably sad but at least that way I will gain some inner satisfaction by releasing them... Still better than never being able to express my inner vision.

Sadly, some visions will stay unsatisfied but maybe if I become more relevant in the future, I can convince them to go the extra step of contacting the artist for me, and ask them if they have moral concerns.

Maybe some cinematics will be resurrected.

But for some good news now.

I am about to close a deal on some music with a band from the US. Until now everything looks like it'll work out and as soon as the deal is made, I will give you guys some details on the pricing and the music. (Genre: Indie/Rock)

And the second I heard their first song, a nice cinematic started to form in my head...

Some might be gone, some will be gone soon, but new ones will always follow.

And with that, I'm out.

By the way, I'm aiming for a release this month.

Status update Episode 9

It will be a short update today as it's hard to report on the status when I have been writing all week. I've worked on dialogue, free-roam, and phone content.

Writing has been going well, and I have plenty left to write. I feel the episode getting more organized and defined each day I write. It is both fun and challenging because I haven't done this level of branching before.

Planning is key for this episode, so I've been going back and forth to my drawing board a lot to make sure the episode will work for all branches.

I'll probably spend another week writing before working on art again.

I'll have a new preview for you within a few days, and the poll for the second special render set will go live tomorrow.

In this poll, it will either be Jill or Isabella who gets a special render set in episode 9. Sign up as a $10 patron to participate.

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake

WiAB Chapter 2 - Dev Log #9

Hello,

So, today will be a very short log.

Summer's Gone is currently rendering its last cinematic, meanwhile, I'm doing postwork on 2250+ SG renders.

So yeah, SG is going to be released soon.

And I limited my work on WiAB for the past week to push through the release phase of SG. After SG is released, I will be returning to the old schedule of "One day SG, next day WiAB and repeat."

But until then, I will be focusing on releasing SG.

WiAB Chapter 2 is around 65-70% done.

It will release not that long after the SG Chapter 4 final release.

2. Music

As many of you know, I've been dealing with a lot of music stuff lately... With the next release of WiAB, some music will be removed from Chapter 1, as apparently I'm too small of a fish for them to go the extra step of contacting artists for me.

More about this some other time...

But I did personally contact some bands/musicians to get some licensing deals... These are more expensive but there's no other way to get high-quality music.

WiAB won't be getting as much new music as SG... Cause one license costs almost as much as WiABs entire support.

I already heard back from one band and we're in contact... If all goes well... I might get the music for both, SG and WiAB for a relatively affordable price...

Otherwise, WIAB will have to wait for a little while until it gained more support and I can purchase them without literally using 100% of its current support for a single license.

3. Laptop

I invest so much into rendering, that I know had to invest in another very important part...

Writing.

I got myself a laptop and it's already paying off big time... I sometimes have trouble writing in my office... but when I'm outdoors at a lake, etc. I am always super inspired.

Every morning since I got the laptop I'm going outside and I just write... And it's a world difference.

In the past two days, I've written more for SG and WiAB than in the past 3-4 weeks. Just amazing.

The Laptop is also powerful enough to edit cinematics, lewd scenes, and do postwork... So even if all PCs are rendering, I can still keep working on other visual aspects.

After SG Chapter 4 is out of Beta, Summer's Gone will be available for certain tiers here, too.

For those that don't know yet, Summer's Gone and Where it all Began are deeply connected.

I'll see you in the next Dev Log.

Ocean

Status update Episode 9

This week I ended up spending on writing and posing all the animations for a fairly big lewd scene. I'm up to 6 completed lewd scenes in terms of animations, with more to come. I tried a few new techniques and made a couple of animations I cannot wait to see produced.

Several animations were longer than usual, one of which took me a full day to pose and ended up being 42 seconds long. I'm trying to make new kinds of animations, pushing myself, and exploring to learn.

I now have a big queue with 44 animations waiting to render. Due to the length of the animations, I estimate that queue alone frees up close to 4-6 weeks to do other activities while rendering at max

I will stop working on art for now and write dialogue next week. My next goal is to have enough dialogue written to be able to work continuously on static renders for a long time.

May is around the corner, and I'll post the Special render poll for Jill vs. Bella to decide who gets a special render set in episode 9. I also hope to post a cosmetic poll sometime in May, but I've yet to decide which girl gets the honor for this special Halloween episode.

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake

Status update Episode 9

This week I wrote dialogue, planned more of what I needed to write, and coded almost every day.

I got into a good flow and managed to create a lot of content for the episode.

I wrote entire scenes and the shell of other scenes that I will continue working on.

Looking only at the amount of code written so far (scenes, free roam, branches, etc.) and comparing it to Episode 8, the longest episode in the game, I'm at 54% completion of dialogue if I was aiming to match episode 8 size.

We'll see where we end up in terms of size.

Next week will be a mix of posing animations and writing. I feel I want to continue writing before I work on static renders to be sure of how much I'm putting in the episode.

All PCs are rendering at full speed throughout all of this. 70 animations are completed so far.

You can look forward to a fresh preview next week.

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake

Status update Episode 9

This week I wrote more dialogue, worked on plenty of animations, performed computer maintenance, and more.

I've had some annoying PC malfunctions lately. Two of my rigs broke, and I had to replace them with new workstations, and so I have.

Everything is up and running as usual, but it did take some time to synchronize everything and start fresh with the new PCs.

The PCs that broke were a bit over 3 and 5 years old, and the way I've been using them, it's about time they threw in the towel. Thanks for your service and the tens of thousands of renders you made!

Hopefully, these new PCs will last at least three years without problems.

Speaking of time, next Tuesday, it's been four years since my Patreon page saw the light of day. I have a special Acting Lessons post and some art prepared for all patrons to see to celebrate the occasion.

I started and finished the Special Render series for Josy that you voted for in the poll a few weeks ago.

Since I haven't worked on Josy like this since Episode 1, I've enjoyed making it a lot, and I pulled all stops for her series.

I don't want to hype the render set too much, but I would probably place the set itself in my top 3 sets of all time so far. I'm very happy about the quality.

Her set will have 20 special renders in episode 9, and its theme will be clubbing.

I'll post a preview of it this weekend, and I made an effort to make the special renders with 4k quality for Patreon.

**Poll news**

Last week's poll was very close. The different tiered polls had three different girls in the first place: Nicole, Riona, and Lily.

After counting the votes from all tiers, the winning combination was:

- Riona
- Clothing: Lingerie + Nude
- 2D animation: Vaginal sex

I'll order a 2D wallpaper of Riona with Lingerie + Nude combinations and a 2D animation with vaginal sex for episode 9.

Thanks for voting!

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake