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Report: Temporary main archive disruption, old RAW support ceasing
🕑 Added 2025-01-06 07:36:38 +0000 UTCHello folks!
Just wanted to warn about a temporary gallery disruption over the course of today. I am structuring (restructuring is too strong a word as there was no structure before) all my old animations from 2021 and forward into a comprehensive MEGA gallery for ease of browsing, and while I shift around archives, rename them etc, there will be temporary outages and things not working while I go through them all.
This is a rather monumental task and will require a lot of work, but I think it's also very consumer friendly for backers given how Patreon sometimes is a pretty big letdown in terms of how searches work, how they've effectively hidden away the tag system and so on. Each archive is being given its own folder with a preview image (the same as on Patreon) as well as the specific character featured and what game/franchise they're from, which MEGA allows simple searches for in the same bar you see above. While this was originally brought about by the need to facilitate my Substar mirror page I think it'll serve you, my dear Patreon backers, really well as well.
I am also going to be forced to remove the old RAW file support owing to increasingly horrendous storage issues. On one hand Blender presently (since 4.0 if my memory serves) does not allow the file formats I used for the old RAW renders which means I am already no longer providing RAW files to backers for newer animations, and the quality difference between them and those having undergone Vegas editing is mostly negligible. On the other, I want to apologize for withdrawing support for something I have previously provided to backers, but my current rig will simply be unable to sustain another HDD from a power standpoint, and an upgrade is presently not possible, so I have to prioritize the archival of my current and future work in that sense. I'll be leaving the old RAWs available for a little while longer, possibly a week or so, so there's still a chance for folks to download them those that interest them over the coming days before they are ejected into the ether.
TL:DR: DH is house-cleaning his darn archives, finally, and links will sporadically go down so long as work continues on it. RAW archives are being removed out of necessity in about 1 week, leaving their links no longer functional until I can find the time to remove them as well.
Thank you, as always, folks, and hope you're doing alright out there. Monday bears down on us all, but Wednesday is just around the corner, and once that day lands you're halfway through the week already, so hang in there. Take a moment to pause when things get heavy, and in time you will overcome.
Take care of yourselves out there, as well as each other!
/DH
Comments
DH
There isn't one in the present, but the archive is being constructed as of writing. I'll be sure to update the FAQ with an official link once it's in a state where I deem it ready for consumption :)
Cadwae
I thought per the FAW there was no archive? Is there one now? If so are we able to get a link?
AlphaPrimaris
All’s good! Though tbh, I don’t bother with the RAWs anyways xD The compilation and edited ones are good as is.
