That's a great idea. It would certainly be a great improvement for people to have one place they can find all the packs.

Yes, that sounds very nice. 😉 What textures do you think to put on your site? I mean, can we put level by level, or we can put the whole chapter, can we put beta textures or not, ...? 😒
Can you post that rules?

I will need to think about that -- I would love for you to put on alphas, betas and anything else. However, in practice this will chew up bandwidth at an alarming rate and is not something that my host can support at present (I have 200MB of disk space graciously donated to me by Bex at Larashome.com -- I'm not sure how much bandwidth I'm allowed to use but I must keep it as low as possible).

I think I should allow complete betas to allow you to get feedback and after that one final pack per level or group of levels. If you want to keep making changes and putting up packs all the time it's going to become too time-consuming and too much bandwidth will be consumed.

I think that this is a very generous offer Gambit, although I am of course very grateful to you for hosting two of my efforts already.
If the disk space/ bandwidth issue would not be a serious problem then I think that the increased buzz of activity on the site would be very beneficial.
If you do decide to go ahead with this I will be pleased to particicipate - looks like Antonijadis will be too - just let us know what you need from us......

I've been doing some more work on folder naming for my own tetxures and realised that the organisation of some of the texture packs by the rest of you leaves a lot to be desired... 😀

I certainly don't want to get into having to tidy everyone's work up before release on the shared website. So I'm going to write a few directions on how best to manage your texture packs. It would be really useful if everyone doing texture packs could stick to the same conventions. There is also the issue that some texture packs map to different folder names -- we will have to find a way of managing this too.

Quest, we haven't heard from you for a while. Do you want to be a part of this?

I am really busy at the moment, but I'll find some time soon. 😉

So where are that directions for managing? I think that every one of as should realize level by level (first in beta of course)! Is that possible?

I haven't had time to write them yet and I'm still thinking about how best to do it.

At the moment, I'm building the new website plus working an another project for someone else. Once the new website is up (in a few weeks) I'll write to guide and add it to the site.

In the first version of the site, I'll upload the packs that are currently available. We can later change them for better managed versions.

Well, I can wait that, and I hope that the others also can. 😉
Anyway thanks for support.

I've decided not to put up the new site until I have at least one new completely finished pack. Although I'm working on all the Peru levels together, I don't yet have a 100% complete level.

So I'm gonna switch my focus back to texturing and after that will do the site. My free time is limited so I'm afraid I can't give any idea when that might be. *shrug*

We can wait Gambit!

I don't know whether you have had time to consider the best way to make different texture packs compatible, but I thought maybe this would work:

The Textures folder within Glidos could contain all the usual numbered folders plus a folder for each artist.

The numbered folders would contain .txt files which are substituted for each of the original textures, and named simply with the co-ordinates that designated each texture. i.e. (0--32)(32--64).txt.

The .txt files link to the actual textures in the artist's folders and these can be organised any which way the artist wants. Changing texture packs would be a simple matter of overwriting the .txt files in the numbered folders.

If this sounds like a reasonable idea it would be good to establish it a.s.a.p so that we can all get on with designing textures without the worry of extra work later caused by compatibility issues. Thoughts?

I think we might be better to go the mapping-file route. You can then change which packs you use just by which mapping files you have in the Textures folder.

Well I'm really getting in to this audio thing now..(have laid all triggers for St Francis Folly already) - but I can't for the life of me get this mapping thing to work! Any chance of some simple step-by-step instructions for a thicko like me?

I added some notes to the texture management thread as this one is going a bit off topic....

Request for better texture pack management

Just a quick screengrab of the new design for the site. I wanted something similar in tone to what I'd done before, but highlighting the textures themselves and retaining the TR1 spirit. what do you think?

Yeah. Looks good. As I mentioned before, I'm happy to set up a hosting package which can hold the actual levels. I've found someone offering 2GB for not unreasonable charge.

Looks great Mr G!!! Lara's head looks a bit over-large for her body though - (maybe she's just proud of all the attention she's getting?)

I love it! 😉 Great design.When you will be finish with that work?

Lara's head has always been too big -- I just got the pic from an old TR picture archive, didn't change it except for the colouring.

I'm going to try and get the new site built this month, but no specific dates in mind. I'm pretty busy with a new young lady.... 😉