LVZ/LVL Questions - Download Too Long EliteAssassin - Fri Jun 30, 2006 10:47 pm Post subject: Download Too Long
The download for my zone is VERY long...so I figured the only way to make it shorter would be to change my filetypes, and I was wondering if .png was the smallest I could change it to.
Yoink - Fri Jun 30, 2006 11:03 pm Post subject:
PNG -> PNG Crush.
EliteAssassin - Fri Jun 30, 2006 11:53 pm Post subject:
Haha it'd be sweet if that'd do something
EliteAssassin - Sat Jul 01, 2006 2:01 am Post subject:
Hmm this is weird, I turned everything into .png files, they were smaller, but when I turned them to LVZ the files was slightly larger than when they were bmps
Muskrat - Sat Jul 01, 2006 2:19 am Post subject:
Catch me if I'm wrong here, but I thought that LVZs compress bitmaps anyways.
EliteAssassin - Sat Jul 01, 2006 3:10 am Post subject:
It does, but I'd like it to be a lot smaller if at all possible.
Smong - Sat Jul 01, 2006 7:38 am Post subject:
You can try this lvz maker, it might compress smaller:
http://forums.minegoboom.com/viewtopic.php?t=3907
Have a look at what's in your lvz and decide what's really necessary and what isn't. Sounds can be reduced in quality to save space. You can make lvz an optional download by prefixing a "+" before the filename in the LevelFiles setting.
Chambahs - Sat Jul 01, 2006 11:34 am Post subject:
The way me and SuSE did it, was PNG->PNG Crush-> Lvz and it went from small, to smaller, to smallest. It didnt increase anywhere.
Bak - Sat Jul 01, 2006 12:48 pm Post subject:
if you're using pictures or rendered art with no transparency, try JPGs
EliteAssassin - Sat Jul 01, 2006 1:35 pm Post subject:
Well the link Smong gave helped a bit, but I may just make a few things optional.
SuSE - Sat Jul 01, 2006 4:38 pm Post subject:
be sure to use indexed (8-bit) PNG, unless you're really hooked on purdy color support
also there are a couple other apps that press things down a _tiny_ bit lower than pngcrush - not positive the extra time/effort is worth it EliteAssassin - Sat Jul 01, 2006 7:10 pm Post subject:
I still dont know how to do png crush...do I have to download something?
Smong - Sat Jul 01, 2006 7:13 pm Post subject:
Here's a long thread on png:
http://forums.minegoboom.com/viewtopic.php?t=1521SuSE - Sun Jul 02, 2006 10:13 pm Post subject:
EliteAssassin wrote:
I still dont know how to do png crush...do I have to download something?
