How to make a .wad "smaller"

Hi!

I've got a cars.wad file with some new cars in it. I try to make it so small as possible,
but I can't come under the 240 MB!!!I want a cars.wad that is between the 50 and 110 MB.
I know it's possible, but how does I do this without changing my files in de cars.wad???
Can somebody help me???

Thnx, Have a nice day!
Brainiac

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'Brainiac,
The sience program that accelerate faster than Lewis Hamilton,
And knows where to find the barrier'



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/02/2008 08:17PM by Brainiac.

well running smaller textures is the big difference, 2048x2048 textures are at least 5mb big, whereas 1024x1024 textures are only just above 1mb

How do I do that?

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'Brainiac,
The sience program that accelerate faster than Lewis Hamilton,
And knows where to find the barrier'

easiest way is to run slimtex, go to batch to tex, throw all your tex files in there, then select all and half the texture size and convert.

I give it a try... XD

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'Brainiac,
The sience program that accelerate faster than Lewis Hamilton,
And knows where to find the barrier'

Well if you use all the available addons, the best you can get is a bit less than 200 megs. The only way, in my opinion, is the one Fongu described. Do it both with the cars and the helmets. Moreover, remove all the textures you don't need.

It's working!
I'm now on the 197 MB XD
Thnx Fongu

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'Brainiac,
The sience program that accelerate faster than Lewis Hamilton,
And knows where to find the barrier'

fongu Wrote:
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> easiest way is to run slimtex, go to batch to tex,
> throw all your tex files in there, then select all
> and half the texture size and convert.

I did the contrary i put x2 jejeje. They look a little nicer

Cheers

also the force best lod teameditor trick use the original lod1-2-3 and only install the lod0 for each car and delete all unused textures you'll win another 30mb easily

PЯuИNИ



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if team 11 is disabled, can i delete the textures and shape for the team?

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SchueyFan schreef:
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> if team 11 is disabled, can i delete the textures
> and shape for the team?


but in practise and qualifying the team will still be there, if you deleted them you'll have a default car instead of SA so i would leave it like it is.

I think if Gp4 will not try to load it you can. Just try it out

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Personnally, I have deleted all the files I didn't need in game and I have resized all tex cars files. So I get a cars.wad file of 147 Mo.

I don't know what happens when you delete the 11th team but I'm quite curious to know...if someone try to do it...

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if you use a mod with csm you will get default car cause the mod updates a clean cars.wad so the lods and tex of default will be taken instead of the super aguri.

if you made your own cars.wad and you deleted the lods from team eleven and there are only 10 lods in the wad then it will crash.

If Im right - bigbrother told me you can disable the 11th team by gp4tweaker.

toyo_161 schreef:
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> If Im right - bigbrother told me you can disable
> the 11th team by gp4tweaker.


Yes you can do it with gp4tweaker but only for the race. In qualifying and practise they will be still around so the tex and lods are needed or you get default ones and if you deleted them a crash.

Why you want smaller wad, it only affects the loading time for a track. Ingame it has no effect at all for the perfomance.

Told a tip before to get your stuff loaded 10x faster. In the graphic file you have to put FULL 32 bit textures to 1 and if it wasn't on 1 you'll see a much faster loading then before !!!

Wait,

Every time I play gp4 I test my graphics two times and my loading doesnt take long...
If I dont test my graphics the loading it takes about 1 min...

Why this?

depending on what you change on it of course. If you set the AA and AF filtering higher it will take also a little longer but if you set Full 32 bit textures on 1 then the loading time won't be more then 10 seconds with my pc which is E6850, 3870 sapphire radeon toxic, 2 gb ram pc6400-800 mhz !!!

For all those have a very new and fast pc feel free to try my graphic file out.

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Bigbrother ecrit:
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> if you made your own cars.wad and you deleted the
> lods from team eleven and there are only 10 lods
> in the wad then it will crash.


Ok, Thanks Bigbrother...That's what I wanted to know...Anyway, Fongu SA is so great that I won't delet it! lol

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