Heyo!
I was wondering what the general stance on map file sizes is these days. I have a project brewing that has a fair amount of very complex combined meshes, which has bloated the file size up considerably. Currently the map is sitting at 187 mb, and I still need to do some very large floor combining. At the current rate things are going, I wouldn't be surprised if the end result closes in on 300 mb.
Now I know in the pre-workshop days, maintaining small file sizes was pretty important because people had to sit and wait for downloads in-game. But with the workshop automatically pre-loading the maps, it feels like not such a big deal anymore. Or?
The thing is I don't have to make those combined meshes (entire buildings), but not doing so is going to make the workflow extremely painful and cumbersome, since I need to re-use a lot of them in many places across the map, and some of those combined structures consist of 100+ single meshes.
How do people feel about this subject? Would love to hear some feedback from you guys and girls.
I was wondering what the general stance on map file sizes is these days. I have a project brewing that has a fair amount of very complex combined meshes, which has bloated the file size up considerably. Currently the map is sitting at 187 mb, and I still need to do some very large floor combining. At the current rate things are going, I wouldn't be surprised if the end result closes in on 300 mb.
Now I know in the pre-workshop days, maintaining small file sizes was pretty important because people had to sit and wait for downloads in-game. But with the workshop automatically pre-loading the maps, it feels like not such a big deal anymore. Or?
The thing is I don't have to make those combined meshes (entire buildings), but not doing so is going to make the workflow extremely painful and cumbersome, since I need to re-use a lot of them in many places across the map, and some of those combined structures consist of 100+ single meshes.
How do people feel about this subject? Would love to hear some feedback from you guys and girls.