New world map - Page 3

Arryn · #21 March 2nd, 2004, 07:08 PM

I have replaced the first draft of Torvak's world map on my downloads page with the latest Version. A new thumbnail is shown, and the .RAR file contains the official .map files from IW.

Torvak · #22 March 2nd, 2004, 09:11 PM

Now i only need Norfleets stamp of approval

Norfleet · #23 March 2nd, 2004, 09:38 PM

And I hereby bestow upon thee the Norfleet Seal of Approval.

This map is totally awesome!

Pirateiam · #24 March 3rd, 2004, 03:46 AM

Having trouble starting a game with the world map. I downloaded the latest Version and also updated the latest world.map from Illwinter. When I select the map from the list it just hangs and freezes my computer. I double checked the world.map file and it seems to point to the correct tga file. I also have loaded the tga file and that is not corrupt. I am probably missing somethin obvious any help would be appreciated. thanks.

[ March 03, 2004, 01:48: Message edited by: Pirateiam ]

Arryn · #25 March 3rd, 2004, 04:04 AM

Using the files from the .RAR on my web site, I just tested and it works fine for me. I did notice, though, that there was a distinct delay after selecting the map that I had not seen before. On my 2.1GHz AMD system it did take several seconds before it moved on, after selecting the map. With the original IW world map it was less than a second.

[ March 03, 2004, 02:05: Message edited by: Arryn ]

Leif_- · #26 March 3rd, 2004, 05:17 AM

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Originally posted by Arryn:
I did notice, though, that there was a distinct delay after selecting the map that I had not seen before.

I've seen the same, and I assume that this is simply because the new image-file is a compressed tga while the old was uncompressed.

Torvak · #27 March 3rd, 2004, 09:26 AM

Will test it with an uncompressed tga right after breakfast.

Torvak · #28 March 3rd, 2004, 09:52 AM

Ok try this.

Interesting the tga is now 39MB but zip still gets it down to 2.6MB.

Leif_- · #29 March 3rd, 2004, 09:57 AM

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Originally posted by Torvak:
Ok try this.

Interesting the tga is now 39MB but zip still gets it down to 2.6MB.

That's really just to be expected, as the map consists of large areas of uniform colour, which compress easily both with zip's compression algorithm and with targa's internal compression.

Incidentally, does anyone know of a more efficent general-purpose compression tool than bzip2?

Torvak · #30 March 3rd, 2004, 10:00 AM

I prefer RAR for the better compression than Zip but as we've seen not everyone has that.