Whee. It's finally here... Not nearly as good as I was hoping (or you were probably expecting.) But whatever.

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What is it?
A map compressor that I did my best to make things tiny.
I'm pretty sure things could go smaller, I'm just too lazy to dig through the garbage in the CHK to figure out which is to keep and which is to throw out in sub-section bits.

This compressor has two modes: UMS and Melee. One keeps everything, and the other dumps it... Of course they are meant to work for thier intended purpose...

Anywho, I spent all day making this nice little chart... Only to find TinyMap isn't so tiny.


So... Try this out on some of your maps and see how tiny they become and see how well this thing handles them or something.
I forgot to mention this in the readme, but protected maps infuriate TinyMap and it will return like half a map--depending on the protection--as TinyMap does not generate content, it uses what is already in your map. For best results feed it a nice, clean map right out of your editor.

Also note that compression acts as light protection, so people will not be able to access your map. OSMap should easily open these maps, though.

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Suggestions? Questions? Comments? Death threats?

Post has been edited 3 time(s), last time on Aug 8 2008, 7:51 am by FaRTy1billion.

I will murder you for this useful program.

Exceeds expectations.




lol

It corrupts my map

Which map?

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It removed all the units in my UMS map.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Jul 30 2008, 3:48 am by Kaias.

Haven't tried it yet, but just wondering if you've spoken with DeathKnight. He was making a compressor back in the day and he had a bunch of weird compression techniques that nobody had thought of.

You mean SECompress?

Shiiiiiit. I forgot to limit the Melee compression. ><
Ok, if you are having issues with your map, redownload it. I was trying to get melee compression better than SECompress so I just shoved invalid unit/sprite (for melee games) removal functions. Luckily for me I added it after doing the UMS map charts...

It works just fine for me..?

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Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Jul 30 2008, 3:51 am by FaRTy1billion.

I keep getting this:


Did I need to have this program anywhere in particular on my comp? Like does it have to be in the same directory as the starcraft stuff?

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Oh. Wait. I thought you meant it crashed SC (because of the weird filename >.>)
Lemme see if I can make the error message more specific.

It also compresses just fine for me...
89%
371806B

Those are some pretty impressive numbers. I think I'll wait for a more "stable" version before using it, though. I didn't think you'd beat SEComp on any Melee maps, though.

I got the same error like MA.
If I ignore the error, I get corrupted maps (osmap2 tries to load something with portugese language out of the map and returns with the error that the storm.dll is missing... wth? ).

Great job Farty It worked well on all my maps, but I would love to see it if you managed to make it even smaller, TINYMAP NEEDS TO PWN ALL!

The melee compression is very nice. I hope to see even moar compression soon.

lul SEComp pwns u

I don't see how it is unstable... I can't recreate any of the errors people are having. I've never seen it error on any map I tried.

Ah, well, you suggested the program was beta, which counts as instability for me. I'll try it on some stuff I'm making, and I'll see how it goes...

Will put it to use. If it's this good and you're not even giving it your all, I can't wait to play with it when/if you do.

I said "perhaps". I like to release things as sortof a semi-beta. If there is issues, I will fix it. When I stop getting issues (if I get any in the first place...) I'll pump it out of beta. Most things stay there because people hardly report things..

what are some of the key points it uses to compress? a few things id like to ask if it touches/helps compress are strings and sounds, does it remove sounds,compress them, or not touch them?