Hello My Friends

I am finally getting back to working on my visual novel. (VN) But things are still moving slow right now.

I upgraded my monitors to 4K, and the first thing I did was to go through the images and make sure they looked good in 4K. There was a complaint about it not looking good in 4K, but the issue was a mistake I had made that looked bad in HD. I already cleared that up for the next release.

Still getting my bearings

As I said, thing will run slowly at first. We had a lot of things to deal with. We had a massive amount of change and upheaval in a short period of time. If you are interested, I will discuss my life events yet again, but if you aren’t really interested in that, skip the next section.

 More whining

I admit that a big part of the events in my life were my fault. I knew I should have dealt with our financial situation earlier, but instead I kept working on the Visual Novel. I ignored everything else and pushed it through. The problem is it left us in a very bad situation, and the job I expected to get took longer to get than I expected. Strangely the manager said I was approved in a way he had never seen before. It was obvious my history with the company gave me a big pass to be rehired.

One of the events was our decision to move after getting the job. I have another way of making money, and part of the reason for the move was to make this easier. It takes a little time, and more space. This side income probably saved us during our financial meltdown.

But another reason for the move was that there was an upcoming surgery, (not mine) and we wanted to get moved before it happened, and she was laid up for a month. We got moved in half a month before the surgery. (And are still not unpacked.)

Unfortunately, the move pushed our debt up even further.

I am still leaving a lot out about what was going on, and I not give too much information in case anyone I know reads this. Anyway back to what you really care about.

4K?

I am now working with 4K monitors. I kept a watch on a couple, and they went on sale and I couldn’t pass it up.

Sorry but the Visual Novel (VN) won’t be in 4K.

I render everything at 4K, then after some cleanup I downsize to HD, so I have all the images as both HD and 4K. After I set up my monitors I checked the HD to the 4K images, and really the quality isn’t enough to justify the increase in the size of the game file.

Final Thoughts

Things might be going slow, but I am back to working on the Visual Novel. I again apologize for the long delay. My biggest regret is that I didn’t have time to improve my skills. My work has been a constant goal of improving at what I do. Both in quality, and in speed. I want my renders to be even better, and in half the time.   

Game update: ???? (Delayed)

Next post: September 3, 2022

As always, enjoy life.