How to reduce your project's size, without losing quality!
12-06-2008, 04:41 PM
Okay well, we all have projects we are working on.
During my time making Fallen Shadows, I realized the game was getting a bit bigger than I expected.
There is two main sources of information when making your game. Images and Audio.
In this tutoiral I will explain how to reduce both of these file types.
I always save my images as*.png's, as they are the best looking, and smallest filesize that I know of.
When I use GIMP, I always compress as much as possible.
Recently, I came across a program called PNGOUTWin.
If you download this program, it will take batch files of images, and "cut" any extra data out, thus reducing all of your images from 20-80% more.
This is lossless quality, your images will still look the same.
Reducing Image Size
Step 1 - Download - PNGOUTWin.
Step 2 - Choose files to shrink
Next, If you have any MP3's in your project, you may want to think about converting them to OGG's.
Reducing Music Size
Step 1 - Download - MP3 WAV WMA OGG Converter
Step 2 - Convert all your MP3's to OGG's
Links -
http://www.ardfry.com/pngoutwin/
http://www.audio-converter.com/
During my time making Fallen Shadows, I realized the game was getting a bit bigger than I expected.
There is two main sources of information when making your game. Images and Audio.
In this tutoiral I will explain how to reduce both of these file types.
I always save my images as*.png's, as they are the best looking, and smallest filesize that I know of.
When I use GIMP, I always compress as much as possible.
Recently, I came across a program called PNGOUTWin.
If you download this program, it will take batch files of images, and "cut" any extra data out, thus reducing all of your images from 20-80% more.
This is lossless quality, your images will still look the same.
Reducing Image Size
Step 1 - Download - PNGOUTWin.
Step 2 - Choose files to shrink
Next, If you have any MP3's in your project, you may want to think about converting them to OGG's.
Reducing Music Size
Step 1 - Download - MP3 WAV WMA OGG Converter
Step 2 - Convert all your MP3's to OGG's
Links -
http://www.ardfry.com/pngoutwin/
http://www.audio-converter.com/
