Map file is lyk 34mb :O Created 16 years ago2008-02-29 08:32:13 UTC by lilfellabob

Hey,
I have been working on a surf map for a while now and i was almost finished and i released the first beta. It was about 4mb. I then continued mapping, added another room and fixed somthings (also lyk 20 custom textures) but now that im finished i see my bsp is 34mb!!!
Can someone pls tell me if i can reduce this or what made it jump so big?
Thanks lilfellabob

20 custom textures

Probably those.

Is this Source? Because custom materials in Source can be quite large. Small lightmap scales can also drastically increase a maps file size.

hmm, i dont think so....
the size of all the textures i have is 666kb (all together) so unless they add more being in game then i dunno...
also i forgot to mention, when i compressed the bsp with winrar it went to less than a mb... (914kb) WTF
lilfellabob

anyone else can help???

Don't double post. Editing your post will bump it.

also i forgot to mention, when i compressed the bsp with winrar it went to less than a mb... (914kb) WTF

Something is up here, and if that's really happening I don't see a problem anymore.

It may have just been a glitch that displayed an incorrect filesize. I've had that before actually. Moving things around or restarting usually fixes that...

i dont think its a glitch... i have restarted since and i just copyied it and copy says same size ...
Also how is there no problem? i can't really have my map on a server as a rar file?

Surfmaps are typically massive hollowed out blocks. This is probably why your map is huge.

I think i worked it out.
I had my custom texture taking up a massive wall... this seemed to make the map alot bigger (compared with using a default texture)
thanks for the help
lilfellabob