Two Goals Reached already! (Patreon)

Wow, you guys, I love you <3

Both of the first two goals have already been reached, in just 17 hours :D

• Unlock 16k downloads

• New HDRI every week

The server is struggling a lot at the moment, so I've already signed up for a CDN service which should at least make the site more responsive. This will take ~48 hours to kick in though, so I'm also looking into other options like upgrading the server directly (which I need to do anyway if I'm gonna fit all the 16k files on it), I just need to figure out the best way to do it.

In the meantime, I've uploaded the 16k files to the Offline-Access Google Drive folder, so those of you with access to that can grab them right now.

As for publishing a new HDRI every week, well, I wasn't expecting to reach this goal so quickly :) I have a few HDRIs waiting to be stitched (see the Trello board), I'll do my best to get them ready but I'm actually going to the Kruger park next week to shoot some more HDRIs, so the first few might be a bit late.

Anyways, thanks everyone for your overwhelming support! I look forward to what we can make together :)

-Greg

PS: Just noticed a discrepancy between the total donation amount shown on the Patreon page and the amount shown on hdrihaven.com - this seems to be due to the patreon.com version taking their fees into account and some other black magic I'm unsure of, whereas the hdrihaven.com version uses the actual amount donated by you guys. There's also a lot of caching going on to try keep the site alive, which just makes things more confusing.