Progress 14.02.2024
Hello all!
I'm sleepy... So what's up? Rendering is done, I sent the thing to be tested... and that's pretty much it. I'll do the builds when I get the results of what I need to fix. So as usual, I'll write what is left, which is not that much, over the weekend and resume the shenanigans... I mean, I'll start rendering 0.35.0 on Monday. Also need to remember to unlock the relevant codex entries.
Also, as of note, the file size is getting huge. We are talking about 9 GB at the moment, and about 16 updates left. Probably, it's just an estimate. So, I will be compressing the images a bit more, trying to keep it under 10 GB when it is done. What does it mean for the "compressed" version? Nothing much. I might increase its compression a bit to keep it closer to 5GB thanks to download limitations from sites for free users. Now this change won't require anything from your part, everything will function as they was as only images will be affected. And why I'm telling this? It's mostly a heads up for the time when the download size goes down a lot. Hopefully anyway.
I've been doing a lot of underground renders recently so felt it was time to for a little change, probably the theme continues on Monday as well since no spoilers. Eventually, these random renders will be replaced with Sorcerer 2 concepts, like I did during towards the end of TRS2. But now isn't the time for them. Need new night time HDRI set... meh.
Anyway, have a great weekend you all!
Comments (4)
I had a feeling that this game was going to get very large. I thought that for Gofile and Mediafire, there were no limits at the moment. Mediafire is occasionally so slow, that my internet has cut them off, unfortunately. Mega has a 6gb limit for me (it used to be 5gb). But I would still rather not have the quality of the images compromised due to compression if that is possible. I am sure that many players cannot see the difference but I normally can.
Unfortunately it is unavoidable. For now some places do allow files over 10 gb, but that can change any moment (GoFile a month a go had in their FAQ's about a cap for 5GB for free users, it's gone now and wasn't implemented, but they were thinking about it) and it is getting tiresome to find hosts that even allow files over 10gb that aren't filled with... unpleasant things. Let alone allowing free users to download them. Besides, the "industry standard" compression is 95% quality. I'm using something that is higher than that.
Have a nice weekend
have a great weekend too