About reducing file sizes

[Mellnik]

Hi

I love the way how you can add mods to your MTA server. The only problem I encounter is the total size of the mods. I don't want players to download more than 70-100MB so I am asking if there are any tricks to reduce the download size.

I have looked around and found this post by ccw (http://bugs.mtasa.com/view.php?id=5015)

How can I do that? Does he mean to zip the mods and upload the an http server or something like gzip on nginx?

Another small question. Do you think 70-100MB is too much for an average player to download? Seeing most other servers don't have more than ~40MB.

Thanks.

[Bonsai]

Another small question. Do you think 70-100MB is too much for an average player to download? Seeing most other servers don't have more than ~40MB.

Personally, if I join a server I have never played on before and it has more than 10mb to download, I just disconnect and go somewhere else.

[Et-win]

I would say this:

fetchRemote 

[Controlled]

Once 1.4 comes out, use

https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/DownloadFile

downloadFile 

[Mellnik]

@Bonsai

Why's that?

@Et-win

What's the difference between downloadFile fromv1.4? And how would I compress and extract it?

@Controlled

Yeah, saw that but it does not reduce the file size but rather download it in the background which would cause lag doesn't it?

[vx89]

Hi Mellnik

Just curious, (if you're using windows) cd to your most demanding resource and run:

@echo off & for /f %a in ('dir /s /b') do echo %~fa %~za 

This will list all the files (including files in subdirectories) and file size in bytes.

Which filetypes are the largest ones?

[Controlled]

You can't compress it and then extract it once the client has it, you can do what I said, so that after they join they have the option to download the files. That way its not a large initial download. Just using downloadFile you can make a GUI with all the mods you want on it and have the player choose what they want to download.

[Bonsai]

@Bonsai

Why's that?

Mostly its just some big size car models or something and its not worth to wait until its finally finished.

[Mellnik]

@vx89

The command doesn't work properly. But my largest files are .txd texture files. (They are already compressed)

@Controlled

That's an option, true. But I'm still curious what ccw meant in his post.

[xXMADEXx]

As ccw said, if you do have a web server on the same host (such as a vps) you can use this script https://community.multitheftauto.com/index.php?p= ... ls&id=8249

[Mr_Moose]

Packing the resource in a zip archive may reduce the size a bit too if you haven't done it already.