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Old January 8th, 2004, 11:06 PM
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Default Re: Maps available

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Originally posted by licker:
I can't remember the answer to this question so I'll ask it again...

Why are the .tga files so fricking huge? 30mb is a hella big file for a damn map no? I mean not all of us have the broadband
Give us time to level out on the huge TGA files. With Dom1 all maps were few colors and 640x480 or some size like that. Dom2 dropped all the limits and we are having fun with it.

One advantage to the way Im doing things though is that I re-use TGA files and write new .map files which are just text. For instance that same directory has .map files generated daily to give random opponents to each race.

The .map file for MiirunstX will probably be added to the daily re-random file so you only need to download that huge TGA once.
Hmmm I will go add a zip of the Miirunst game now.
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