62_HoshimachiSuisei-event

Animation #62

G-Guys, I think there's some confusion to what our recent Category Poll is about. It's just meant to figure out the 'popular groups' within the 'popular groups'. Like I wrote in the original post, it does not include other games or groups because it wouldn't make sense for what the poll is meant to do.

If the poll doesn't apply to you, it's alright, since our releases are still based on our Character Poll, not the Category Poll we're doing right now. All this Category Poll does is decide the 'who' from Genshin Impact and VTuber slots should take priority. It does not replace or remove other characters like from Blue Archive.

I think there's just some confusion since not everyone speaks English but I guess it can't be avoided. Character Poll would still continue as per normal with the games and characters we like.

[Worklog]

Oof, hardware limits again with the lag. We did take about 2 times longer building the scene and added a lot of objects all our lights have to interact with. We had to get a little creative with the angles and we had to use Timeline's Enable/Disable keyframe for a lot of objects as soon as they were out of the shot.

One part you might see the video be a little 'choppy' is the shot with both background character visible alongside our Suisei which is unavoidable, unfortunately, but luckily it wasn't too much missed frames. The moment we tilted the POV camera down it got better as we keyframed all other objects to be Disabled anyway so at least the good part's safe, heh.

We are kinda experimenting with all our lights a little more which is why we're running into hardware limitations. Fortunate for us though, that there is a potential fix for this in the form of hardware upgrades in the future. KKSunshine is a lot more performant after all and we're hoping it is just needing that little bit of extra horsepower to get out of the 45fps-59fps range (while recording with real-time postprocessing) and to have constant 60fps+ within Studio.

It doesn't mean we can't do Trios (M+F+F) at the moment because I did experiment and created threesome short animations (just not released). I think the scene would have to be simpler like our typical bedroom scenes we have released so far.

Anyway, we've already started acquiring new characters and working on making the necessary tweaks and conversion to be used in future releases. The currently running Category Poll is helping a lot decide whom we should be getting already.

I'm also gonna make sure I get some rest.