Hello there, my beautiful followers and Patreons! 💫 Stray Paranormal here, back with your weekly dose of chaos and catnip. 🐾

So, let’s talk about last week.

The set for Scene 03 is finally done! 🎉 Not exactly how I envisioned it, but hey—done is done, and that counts for something, right?

I originally tried to build it modular, hoping to dodge those pesky video memory issues. But no matter how many tricks I pulled, the set remained too heavy for my graphics card. So… I caved. 😅 I picked up a plugin called DAZ LOD System, which uses a clever algorithm to swap textures on far-away objects. Neat in theory. But in practice? I'm not loving the render quality. To confirm whether it’s just in my head or actually a thing, I’ll make a few side-by-side comparisons—with and without the optimizer—and see what's what. 🔍

This whole thing cost me almost two weeks, which hurts a little. But hey, now I know. 😬

Also made 23 new renders, though I haven’t updated the progress bar—because those images are for Scene 03, which was technically already done. So it's a kind of rework, not new progress.

Anyway, that’s it for now. See you later, lovely humans. 

Reminder: Clean 4K variant of cover art here

Stay awesome, stay weird. Stray out. Meow! 🖤✨