Poly Haven

Open-Source-It Goal has been Reached!

Added 2018-05-23 16:30:12 +0000 UTC

Goddamn that was fast :D you guys rock!

This goal encompases a few different things, all to do with making hdrihaven.com more open - helping to turn it more into a community effort than a solo expedition...

The git repo for the website code itself will be published, accepting patches for improvements and new features.
I'll publish all the scripts and tools that I've made to help me create HDRIs, as well as detailed documentation about my workflow so that others can learn how to create high quality content.
The possibility for community contributions will be opened on hdrihaven.com, allowing anyone to publish HDRIs there (after some strict quality control). Contributors will be compensated a fair portion of the Patreon donations that month. More details on this later :)

As you can see, this is a pretty big deal. Each of these points will require quite a bit of work to set up and prepare, so they won't be ready or running at full capacity immediately...

For the website code, there are security and privacy concerns to deal with;
My workflow scripts were all hacked together to work just for me on my system, so I'll need to document and make them work for anyone;
The community HDRI contributions will require setting up the site to allow multiple authors, resolutions, file formats, etc.

Currently, my plate is pretty full. Most of my time is dedicated to a secret project launching next month - I won't spoil the surprise just yet but you're all going to love it ;) - this means the tasks for this goal will take a bit longer than expected:

Community HDRI contributions has top priority - ETA late June / early July.
Scripts and tools come next, as they'll likely be needed for said HDRI contributions - ETA July.
Documentation about my workflow and tutorials to help others creating HDRIs is next - ETA Late July, probably on-going work.
Website source code will require careful thought and external help, and is the lowest priority - ETA August.

Thanks once again for all your support :) I'm sorry this won't be coming sooner, but I hope you'll agree that it shouldn't be rushed.