Hello again crew.
A bit of a longer one this time. As mentioned in the edit for the last debriefing I finally pulled the trigger and purchased an RTX A5000 to setup in a second computer to use as an Iray Server.
Introducing Dazzy as I call it. It's a hand-me down computer from a family member after they built a new system and an A5000 slapped in as a replacement for the AMD GPU that was in it previously.

I have run into some issues with Iray server that I am working through so that I can use it to its full potential. The error I get when these issues happen is "Socket write operation failed" from what I can tell from the user guide for Iray Server is that usually points to running out of memory, and Dazzy only has 16GB of RAM at the moment. I have since ordered a 64GB kit of memory to put in my main system and then I'll put the 32GB kit I currently have in my main system into Dazzy, which will hopefully be enough to resolve that issue.
But what I have been able to get out of Dazzy so far has helped to speed up rendering quite a bit as mentioned previously resulting in 64 renders done this month, which may not seem like a lot since I've had previous months where many more have been done but those were as a result of long animations but that isn't the case this month. Most of those were individual renders or replacement materials to use on a screen that is part of a scene.

Hello again crew, a short update for this month because I don't have much to say. May was a bit better then April with 26 renders being completed as opposed to the 21 of April. It took quite a while to render a single image for on the scenes because I wanted it to show a full bridge and it took a few attempts of making changes to even get it to fit in the VRAM buffer for my GPU so that Daz would render using the GPU, and then making further changes to get it to render in a somewhat reasonable about of time.

Nothing else beyond renders was done this month.
Attached is the 4K render for one of the images done this month because I decided I think it works quite nicely has a desktop background or lock screen image.
Edit: I have also pulled the trigger and finally purchased an RTX A5000. The card will likely arrive sometime late this week or early next week. Once that arrives and is setup it will help to improve the number of renders completed. It will also help to enable the use of more complex scenes because I can offload them specifically to render on the A5000.

I am going to keep this update short because there isn't much to say.

This is coming out about a week late due to me having had too much fun checking out Terra Invicta again after setting it aside for like a year or two to let development progress on the game. As a result of that I also didn't get quite as many renders done as I would have liked, only having done 21.

Depending on how many renders get done I will likely end up doing a second Alpha release in either June or July.