proposed pack format change
Posted: Tue 12. May 2015, 04:51
Hello
I've been playing this game off and on for a while. Thanks.
A while back I started working on my own girlpacks and found the potentially extremely large girlpack and twogirlpack files to be cumbersome and slow - almost to the point of being unusable. Saves take too long as well as extracting and import. It gets worse as the files get larger. A pack with 5 or 6 scenes just becomes too hard to work with, especially with higher quality video - to the point that I gave up. I am wondering if you've considered or would be open to an entirely different approach to the *pack file format?
Rather than one monolithic file, essentially I would propose a directory structure containing the files/packs for each girl/girls. The root folder would be the girl, then sub folders for each scene which then contain the raw video files. Meta-data about each folder/file would be in each folder as needed - all of which comprise a "pack" for that girl(s). E.g.
->SuperHotGirl1
girl-meta-data-file
->HomeScene1
scene-meta-data-file
video-file01
video-file02
...
video-fileN
->AnotherScene
...
->SuperHotGirl2
etc.
etc.
In addition to making packs easier to create, they become MUCH easier to upgrade and add additional scenes etc. without having to save and otherwise deal with a HUGE monolithic file.
As far as the single file or multiple file upload/downloads the directory structure can still be tarred/zipped/rarred etc.
I am a developer with over 20 years experience and 10+ in C#. I wouldn't have a lot of time to put into this, but I would be willing to work on the feature/change if you would be open to the mod. I think existing packs could easily be converted to the new format.
I've been playing this game off and on for a while. Thanks.
A while back I started working on my own girlpacks and found the potentially extremely large girlpack and twogirlpack files to be cumbersome and slow - almost to the point of being unusable. Saves take too long as well as extracting and import. It gets worse as the files get larger. A pack with 5 or 6 scenes just becomes too hard to work with, especially with higher quality video - to the point that I gave up. I am wondering if you've considered or would be open to an entirely different approach to the *pack file format?
Rather than one monolithic file, essentially I would propose a directory structure containing the files/packs for each girl/girls. The root folder would be the girl, then sub folders for each scene which then contain the raw video files. Meta-data about each folder/file would be in each folder as needed - all of which comprise a "pack" for that girl(s). E.g.
->SuperHotGirl1
girl-meta-data-file
->HomeScene1
scene-meta-data-file
video-file01
video-file02
...
video-fileN
->AnotherScene
...
->SuperHotGirl2
etc.
etc.
In addition to making packs easier to create, they become MUCH easier to upgrade and add additional scenes etc. without having to save and otherwise deal with a HUGE monolithic file.
As far as the single file or multiple file upload/downloads the directory structure can still be tarred/zipped/rarred etc.
I am a developer with over 20 years experience and 10+ in C#. I wouldn't have a lot of time to put into this, but I would be willing to work on the feature/change if you would be open to the mod. I think existing packs could easily be converted to the new format.