Your current hoster blocks the running download after a few minutes with "timed out", which is too less to download the 12 GB game for anything slower than gigabit ethernet.
To fix this:
Your current hoster blocks the running download
Is that an answer to some download problem?
HH can be downloaded from Itch.io or from the mirror site, one of them should work. My experience is both of them do work.
compress the images more;
HH is now 12 GB compressed. The developer has stated the uncompressed game is over 100 GB.
My understanding is images and animations are now compressed as much as they can be compressed. Further compression would make image quality noticeably worse.
I do not know what compression method or methods are used now, original poster proposes using compressors like AVIF and WebP, but maybe those are already in use?
To solve this properly would require testing available image compressors and measuring which makes smallest file size without making image quality worse. This would need testing on the HH images, they are not typical photographs.
Yes, manga style is actually simpler, he could even reduce color palette. And using avif (which renpy supports and it ignores file extension if not hardcoded in the scripts), somewhere around 50% file size could be achieved vs. jpg and about 2/3 vs. webp.
Btw, i got Lessions in Love from 12 GB to 4.3 GB without visual loss, but that one uses a lot of PNG.
> The developer has stated the uncompressed game is over 100 GB.
Uncompressed pictures/video are huge, this says nothing. That's why we have formats that compress them.
And yeah, i can't download the game, it always stops after a few minutes with connection timed out. And 12 GB is huge for a VN. Says it needs about 40 minutes to download on my current line (the one downside of this place).
One issue might be that HH does "animations" often manually, via a series of pictures, while a video format would compress a series of similiar images to a little more file size than one image.
The size of the game has been reduced by ~90% through compression. Any more compression has resulted in noticeably worse image quality, so I stick with 90%.
You may want to try a mirror link. The host you're using may be having issues.
Manual animations are an unfortunate requirement. Tests have shown me that using videos will not only lower the quality, but also cause a stutter each time the video is looped.
Yeah, i did manage to download it now, thanks!
Like i said, there are more efficient image formats. For example the first image 2lobby.webp, size 423.8 kb. Using simple `magick convert 2lobby.webp 2lobby.avif` reduces image size to 81.5 kb.
About the video issue; please try again, i know at least a dotzend VN using videos succesfully. Reducing quality and stuttering must have been an error on your side, that's not a general problem of neither videoformats nor the stuttering one of Renpy.
If you have any questions to picture or video formats or converting/compression, i'm glad to answer them.
