Daily Update 8/15

I am currently compressing and recompressing MULTIPLE FREAKING TIMES... sorry its annoying to me lol. I did a standard light compression already and that is done, its at 2gb which is cool. But to be able to get it to work on android and itch.io I need to have a version that is under 1gb I have gotten all the renders combined down to a total of 250ish MB by running it at 60% image quality. Which while I am not a fan of quality loss, I dont see it being a huge issue when viewed on a mobile device. I am currently compressing the animations for chapters 3, 8 part 2, 9 part 1, and 9 part 3 as those are still rather large. I am going to post Folder Name - Animation Count - Folder Size to give you an idea of where I am struggling. For the record the update will be up today as everything apart from this compression is already done.

Remember The goal is BELOW 1GB

Chapter 1 - 124 Animations - 30.5 MB
Chapter 2 - 123 Animations - 43.4 MB
Chapter 3 - 73 Animations - 49.0 MB
Chapter 4 - 79 Animations - 21.2 MB
Chapter 5 - 67 Animations - 30.9 MB
Chapter 6 - 77 Animations - 25.1 MB
Chapter 7 - 171 Animations - 37.3 MB
Chapter 8 Part 1 - 109 Animations - 36.8 MB
Chapter 8 Part 2 - 503 Animations - 96.8 MB
Chapter 9 Part 1 - 435 Animations - 115 MB
Chapter 9 Part 2 - 421 Animations - 63.7 MB
Chapter 9 Part 3 - 930 Animations - 172 MB

Total File Size For Animations - 721.7 MB

Total File Size For Audio File Size - 18.4 MB

Chapter 1 - 223 Renders - 13.0 MB
Chapter 2 - 178 Renders - 14.2 MB
Chapter 3 - 341 Renders - 30.5 MB
Chapter 4 - 185 Renders - 10.3 MB
Chapter 5 - 172 Renders - 9.13 MB
Chapter 6 - 458 Renders - 31.0 MB
Chapter 7 - 231 Renders - 16.1 MB
Chapter 8 Part 1 - 611 Renders - 34.5 MB
Chapter 8 Part 2 - 627 Renders - 36.4 MB
Chapter 9 Part 1 - 627 Renders - 39.5 MB
Chapter 9 Part 2 - 534 Renders - 32.1 MB
Chapter 9 Part 3 - 579 Renders - 40.2 MB
GUI Images 5 MB

Total File Size For Renders 306.93 MB

Scripts and other random files 25 MB

Total File Size Combined = 1077.03 MB
1 MB = 1024MB So I only need to cut down around 55MB
And if you look the largest contributers to the filesize is currently:

Chapter 3 - 49 MB
Chapter 8 Part 2 - 96.8 MB
Chapter 9 Part 1 - 115 MB
Chapter 9 Part 3 - 172 MB

I have already compressed them a bit. Though each run of compression takes around 3 and a half hours... Which is why it annoys me so much.
But yea if you remember the last time I brought up compression numbers, and how it works. When you are talking about Images and Audio Files It is a straight up number out of 100% just an easy to understand quality drop. So whenever I do these compressions for the 1gb and under version for itch. Images are always dropped to 60% same for audio quality. When it comes to Video though it uses a different scale. its 0-63 where 0 = No compression at all, 63 = pixelated as fuck. and 20 is the mark for no visual loss in quality but reduces the average size in half. When you do a standard compression you typically run it at 39, which is around a 20% visual quality drop. So on my lightly compressed version that 2GB size is run at 39.

The run I just finished where I was SO FUCKING CLOSE!!!! Was ran at 50. or around 35% visual quality loss. I am now running JUST the Chapter 3, Chapter 8 part 2, Chapter 9 part 1, and Chapter 9 part 1 animations only.
By only compressing these folders the compression run only takes around an hour and a half. So I will update this post when the compression is finished running. Though I am probably going to slow the compression a bit, because I am not just going to sit here and do nothing, I am going to run the build process for the 2GB and Not compressed 8GB versions. Then also start uploading those. So that I can start the Chapter 9 Part 3 Release patreon post. It will just have 3 different versions, Essentially it will be:

Not Compressed 8GB Version for Windows/Linux
Not Compressed 8GB Version for Mac

Light Compression 2GB Version for Windows/Linux
Light Compression 2GB Version for Mac

Highly Compressed 1GB Version For Windows/Linux
Highly Compressed 1GB Version For Mac
Highly Compressed 1GB Version For Mobile

I can't do a Lightly compressed version for Mobile anymore as Renpys MAX filesize for Mobile version is 2GB, and the 2GB version is not technically 2 GB its like 2.05GB or something like that, so when I ran a build for it earlier on bluestacks to try and test it, the program refused to open. So Since the game has gotten this large mobile users will be forced to use the highly compressed version. But I will have to test it and see how it looks on an actual mobile device it might not even be terrible. Though I have seen that more than a few people are using something called joiplay? to run the PC version on mobile? Haven't tried it don't know how it works. But I may end up looking into it to make a tutorial for people or something?

Edit #1
Finished Building the Lightly Compressed and Not Compressed builds.
Currently uploading them (2 hours 5mins remaining) 22GB total 4 files to PixelDrain. GoFile will be after
Still waiting on compression to finish for the 1GB version.