B.net questions.

[UchihaSasuke.gr]

As(s) all we know the max size of a map to be played on B.net is 4Mb.But can't Blizzard make it a bit more?I have seen lots of people that have cool music on their maps(ROCK MUSIC OF COURSE:emote_razz: )but they can't host their maps coz it's big.I know there are laggers but can't they make it 5Mb for example?

 

[Arab4life]

I think it's also because there is a designated amount of memory B.net can sustain. If every map was 5 MB, B.net would collapse, Dota is already big enough, imagine it as a 5 MB map being constantly hosted on B.net.

This is of course, why i think they do this. I dont really know.

 

[Deleted member 126647]

....But can't Blizzard make it a bit more?....I know there are laggers but can't they make it 5Mb for example?

Why not ask them, rather than us, who can't give you a true answer?

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

Because 4 is such a nice number.

Also if people weren't morons they would know how to cut down the size of their music files so that they doesn't take up all that much space.

 

[GST_Nemisis]

i managed to get a 40 second music clip to 150kb with still very high quality.

 

[Burger_Bling]

Music always eats up around half your space while the other half is models, skins etc. I once had a map that was like that :emote_grin:
If you want to be able to learn how to import music and reduce size, go Here Made by brad.dudeo3 (This is probably way off topic....)

 

[Jacek]

arab, do you think dota is using 4 MB limit? Dota != RDZ Arena, dota has 2.5 MB

 

[lorothrigs]

Use Audacity to lower the bit rate, it's how I make my ring tones. : )

 

[GST_Nemisis]

there are alike 500000000 programs to edit audio, its just which ones you can get for free, which ones you cant, which ones you can torrent and which ones you can crack tbh.

 

[lorothrigs]

Audacity is free. Easy to use. and open source. It's excellent.

 

[brad.dude03]

Well there you go then. In my tutorial I just use Imtoo Audio Converter because I like it, it's powerful, and it's very good at reducing size whilst still maintaining high quality. Sort of like the DivX of audio. Unfortunately, the full version costs money, so I only link to a trial copy, perhaps I'll edit the link to Audacity once I try it out

 

[lorothrigs]

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/