Reducing the SE4 footprint.

Lisif Deoral · #1 May 13th, 2003, 11:48 PM

Can SEIV handle RLE (compressed) windows bitmaps?
Last year I was running short of disk space and tried to compress them, but I can't remember if it worked or not (I decided to buy a new hard disk

Edit: yes, it can handle them. Anyway, they're limited to a palette of 256 colors, so you'll need to reduce color depth (but IMHO the game won't lose anything).

[ May 13, 2003, 23:04: Message edited by: Lisif Deoral ]

Desdinova · #2 May 13th, 2003, 11:57 PM

AIC mod uses its own graphics. so no you cannot delete them.
Edit> i have posted in AIC post asking JLS if he would mind having his pictures added to the others.

[ May 13, 2003, 23:05: Message edited by: DESDINOVA ]

Slick · #3 May 14th, 2003, 12:04 AM

*dances around and jumps on the bandwagon*

You can delete History.txt and save 115Kb.

Slick.

PvK · #4 May 14th, 2003, 06:18 AM

Proportions has not been kept up to date with the image mod, even though the image mod has some of the Proportions images in it. There are a few of the first images which you might be able to delete, though, but not much - I think Proportions 1.0 was the Last Version to have everything in the image mod, and I think even then, it might have a thing or two that aren't in the image mod, or not in the same place.

PvK

Fyron · #5 May 14th, 2003, 06:24 AM

So get those images in the Image mod!

No more excuses.

PvK · #6 May 14th, 2003, 10:10 AM

I am cleverly saving space for people who just use Proportions, Fryon - no need to download the Image Mod.

Personally, I think Dogscoff should bite the bullet, splurge, and use two CD's.

PvK

dogscoff · #7 May 14th, 2003, 12:07 PM

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Personally, I think Dogscoff should bite the bullet, splurge, and use two CD's.

Well obviously I could do that, but I hate wasting space and would have to fill the second CD completely, which would mean downloading the other hundred or so races listed on Sotas, the scifi crossover mod and AST mod (too big for me to download so far), but I'd probably still have 300 meg left over after that.

Which would mean me starting a thread about how to increase the amount of space taken up...

PvK- you don't need to force people to dl the whole image mod. Just make the images compatible, then distribute them with the mod in the normal way. Then ppl like me can delete any superfluous files if we want to.

Or you could do what Rollo is doing and a "lite" Version available if you want to.