Map Size

Okay... My map is now 99.9% complete. There is only one problem now. After I add the file " AbilityData.slk " the size of the map doubles.... it is now 536KB!! This is terrible.. Is there any way to reduce this?! When people download, it seems as if I have 56k and I can't take that sort of harrassment! :guns:

make a back up copy of the AbilityData.slk

remove all cell comments (you should be able to ctrl + a then right click on a field that has a comment, and remove it)

then goto the field marked Comments, remove all of them

those had no effect in game and will cut down the size of the SLK.

after you import all files to your map. make a backup of the map, open the map in a MPQ editor, then delete the war3map.wtg file (this file is unneeded for playing the map) and will cut the size down a good deal also.

my heroquest episode 1 RPG is about 800k after imported, when i did this the map droped to 599k still big, but also alot smaller

removeing war3map.wtg will make it uneditable untill its re-added wont it?

readding would probably allow it to be reopened, but the new file of course wont restore the original triggers.

It was a pain when i accidently protected my original of one of my maps. Lost all the trigger GUI. thats when i desided to learn jass because the jass still exists in the w3m... (along with the terrain of course...)