[OUTIL] HSD - Haluter's Skin Downloader

[lelong]

Un outil de gestion de skins custo vient de sortir.

https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/70078-haluter’s-skin-downloader-for-the-il-2-sturmovik-great-battles-series/

Les skins sont hébergés chez eux, donc c’est le genre de chose comme mentionnait Biluf qui pourrait s’arrêter quelque peu… brutalement un jour.

Sinon au premier test j’aime leur systeme de filtres, toute donnée est filtrable:

• créateur
• module BoX
• package « thématique » genre Normandie niemen
• package « escadrille virtuelle »
  etc

Il y a aussi la gestion des skins « censurées ou pas » avec notamment les croix des nasillons pour ceux que ca intéresse. Ca veut pas dire que toutes l’ont, c’est + que maintenant on peut mettre 2 versions, une censurée une non et les joueurs qui ont l’un des deux skins le verront.

Sympa dans tous les cas à regarder pour chercher l’inspi.
IRREskin reste tres bien pour nous, au moins tant qu’il n’y a pas au moins la refonte du systeme de skins avec les numéros à changer dans le jeu pour 1 même skin.

[lelong]

@BlackHellHound1 sur Forum IL2

The last week has been amazing. We are extremely happy with how the launch went. (and that it didn’t crash miserably).
We have over 1300 skins on HSD already and over 2TB of skins have been downloaded! (that’s 100.000 skins worth).

Because of this, we had to upscale our storage already. Something we anticipated doing a month or 2 after release. Not 6 days after release

This does come with some extra cost for us. Therefore we would like to ask you all to consider contributing via Patreon.

https://www.patreon.com/haluter

Thank you all for this amazing launch, your support and your skins!

@Alonzo

Some technical notes, for the curious:

Our server is a Linode Linux virtual machine. It comes with 2 CPUs, 4GB RAM, 50GB of disk and 2TB/month bandwidth quota. We used 2TB in 6 days…
We use CloudFlare, a global content delivery network, on top of our web server. This allows us to offload some of the file serving – CloudFlare’s caching servers receive requests from the desktop skin downloader, then they download and store each skin. Then they can serve downloads super fast to end users, because they have servers all around the world (we benchmarked Australian downloads just as fast as US downloads, and the skins server is in the UK).
CloudFlare is free, at least in a non-Enterprise configuration. Because we control the web server and HSD, we can get good caching results even with the free tier of CloudFlare.
We saw a peak cache hit rate of about 98% in the first couple of days, but that’s come down to about 93% because newly uploaded skins need to populate into the caching servers.
If you’re ever interested in doing some high volume stuff, do check out CloudFlare. Their CDN definitely saved our asses on this launch – 100,000 skins in 6 days is crazy.

And yeah, there’s some monthly costs here that Haluter is on the hook for. If you were on the fence about supporting via the Patreon, please do consider it, even a small monthly donation is much appreciated and small donations add up, given how big an audience there is for this tool.

https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/70078-haluter’s-skin-downloader-for-the-il-2-sturmovik-great-battles-series/page/3/

Ca doit couter une blinde non ? S’ils ont dépassé leur quota de débit en 6 jours (il y a l’effet lancement mais quand même)

[flyplatypus]

Nouvelle version de haluter disponible ici:

https://hsd-online.net


Merci à Fizz qui a repris le projet pour cette version 2.0 sur laquelle notre collection de skin est gérée.