My latest discovery...

I just realized that when you convert a bmp/png/tga into blp by using Warcraft III Viewer, a small window appears and asks you shit about file compression, you can set it to whatever you like.. If you set it higher then the blp filesize gets higher and vice versa. Try setting one skin to 85% and it's copy to 50%, you won't notice much difference about the skin but there will be a HUGE difference with their filesizes.

Good find.
I mainly posted this to see my stats.. I do a lot of browsing, I'm not new here, More than 1 year, just not a lot of posts.

Yeah... Join Date : Jan 2006.. That's One(1) year :P

Anyways, if what I discovered is true then I'll be able to make those 200+ kb skins into 50-80 kbs..

Oh boy. And I thought this whole (quality vs. file size) deal was obvious?

What's all of that about? I didn't see any big difference when I compared an 85% compressed and a 50% compressed skin..

Yeah that's mostly because you are not "an eye person" it is like how some people (including me) won't ever notice the difference between a low quality MP3 and a high quality one, but some sure are able to.

In total when you add a low quality texture to a model and with the zoomed out stuff and all. It tends to look crappier thus ruining a great skin, but that's just my opinion. My opinion is also that if you really like to save space you shouldn't be using skins at all.

Then what percentage of compresison do you recommend?

whatever you like? It is your map.

that has to be my most stupid fucking question ever..

Using this method, I was able to compress a whole sci-fi model pack + sounds in a map for under 1 MB, without noticeable quality loss.

75% is what I find to be a fair difference between quality and file-size. This can reduce your file-size by more than half (depending on size and amount of colors used)!