Black magic tool that can save a few megabytes in your base folder
adem4ik opened this issue · 3 comments
- get it here (windows only) https://sourceforge.net/projects/nikkhokkho/files/FileOptimizer/14.50.2586/
- "Options" - "Do not create backups"
- drop "base" folder and start "Optimize"
Result: After 3h 45m "base" folder size decreased from 61.9 MB to 51.4 MB
If you want to get better optimization you can try "Optimization level - Best" (at the cost of much longer time) & "Allow lossy optimizations" in PNG/JPG tabs (at the cost of visual quality loss). It works nicely with JPG/PNG, and less efficiently with OGG/WAV.
Also it can be a good practice to optimize media files before every realese. Or you can try to make it automatically (example https://github.com/SuperTux/supertux/blob/master/tools/png_recompress.sh ) using different open-source tools widely available on le internet. You can find a list of them here https://nikkhokkho.sourceforge.io/static.php?page=FileOptimizer at Description section.
Cheers.
wb adem
so I'm not too bothered by this:
- the game is already tiny by game standards
- lots of assets need replacing
- upcoming changes are going to increase game size substantially (physx, new ui) so cutting 10MB is going to become less of a win
that said I do run optipng from time to time and if there are some free wins we may as well
Well, I can make a pull request with better optimization level tomorrow, if you don't mind.
nah don't worry about it. thanks though