Zipping/rarring a mod

[sovereign001]

I've got my hq planet textures and nano fx textures but it's a total of 1.87gb.. If i zip it on best quality, it's 700mb.. Do you people have other ways?

[Bones]

No warez meant here but I saw some games rips that compressed files from 5 GB to even 1 GB  :eek but I don't know where to get this kind of software ...

[Vladko1]

You can make several mods. If i remmember right, the maximum upload file in filefront was 250MB. Make 3 archives and make them like different versions of a mod. Something like 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2. Or upload them directly in filefront(because its bigger than 250MB) and after that, there was a process in which you copy the link (i believe), write the info about the mod and you are done

[ACES_HIGH]

I'm pretty sure there's bigger stuff than that on BCFiles.

KM1 for example, when it was posted here, was over a gig, they host the entire Americas Army game over on AAfiles, that's very large.


There are ways to make things smaller, try packing them as a .BCmod file, or an .exe installer.

[JimmyB76]

DS9FX Xtended is 798mb...

[Billz]

WinAce ;)

[sovereign001]

i'll try winace! I'm using winrar now, but i'll try winace fo the moment!

[JimmyB76]

how about 7-zip?  i use winrar, personally; but i have heard many good things about 7-zip...

[King Class Scout]

there's been a rule posted...ZIP format only, now, if I remember right.  besides, how many people still use the ACE format?

[Jb06]

there's been a rule posted...ZIP format only, now, if I remember right.  besides, how many people still use the ACE format?

Its recommended you use ZIP format, but you can use RAR if need be.

~Jb

[sovereign001]

yep, did it on ultramode. Still 700mb.. So i'm guessing it's gonna be a long upload!

[deadthunder2_0]

you tried an EXE yet?

[tiqhud]

split into seperaate upload, [less work for you] [but then agian] , say you got 20 systems do several 5 system uploads, when all of them are installed the comprise all the systems.

[sovereign001]

@deadthunder, yeees, i did an exe with winrar. 746mb, so nothing special
@tiqhud, i did that once with star trek legacy in separate files. Lots of people just forget to download the rest(yeah i know, retards).

So it's gonna be one huge upload ;)

[Billz]

there's been a rule posted...ZIP format only, now, if I remember right.  besides, how many people still use the ACE format?

WinAce has better compression that WinRar. That's the only reason I suggested it.

[Lurok91]

Winace my preferred choice.  Always quick and clean.  But winrar and 7-Zip also good 

[Mario]

WinAce is something I haven't heard of in a long time.

Anyway, 7Zip used with Ultra Compression using LZMA2 should cut down the size in "half" at best to what WinZip does. But 7Zip is not generally seen around bcfiles so a workaround is to download NSIS and create a self extracting installer and pack the whole package using LZMA (preferably solid), it should generate a slightly larger package: 5-10 megs maybe than what the 7Zip would pack itself in a 7z file. This also depends on the quality of the files... But I've packed 2 GB large tga files into 350 MB package(s). Just remember that the whole packaging process can take sometime and that using NSIS is not exactly easy.