Controlling File Sizes of Skins

Jump back to quoted post1 Aug 2016, 13:49 PMCyanara

Hey,

I'm just curious as to whether anyone has any tips regarding keeping custom skin file sizes low.

I have two ready to use skins (winter and summer) that add up to 200MB collectively.

However, I made a curated version that combines the same files of those two and it's coming out at nearly 400MB. Is there something about setting a curated version that does this, or am I maybe missing something else?

Edit: Found this in the wiki:

"NOTE: If you are submitting to the curated pathway then your mod will be big as it will include your source files. This may cause you to hit the upload file size limit of 300MB. If this is the case try splitting your mod into summer and winter packs and upload each separately."

Jump back to quoted post4 Aug 2016, 22:37 PMStarbuck

Oh wow. 100mb each is very high for a non-curated, ready-to-use skinpack. How many files are you exporting with each vehicle? Are you including, dif, nrm, spc, and gls?

Jump back to quoted post4 Aug 2016, 22:37 PMStarbuck

Oh wow. 100mb each is very high for a non-curated, ready-to-use skinpack.

Jump back to quoted post6 Aug 2016, 00:38 AMCyanara

You know, I was just looking at the German 1944 - Macular skin and wondering how he got 2 armies in only 47MB.

Then I realised: I used a lot of wear and tear layers on my skin packs, which would have shot the compression ratios to hell. What was only two colours suddenly becomes a huge variety of shades that are nowhere near as easy to compress, so the smallest I could get was 70MB for one army.

Jump back to quoted post6 Aug 2016, 03:08 AMStarbuck

If you didn't export with any other files other than the _dif, you'd probably be around the 50mb mark for a German skin pack that includes vehicles from both armies.