Question regarding my map

[Raizek]

Well, I've been making my own map, I've used no tools, cept world editor, I have a few custom models, I haven't done much of the terrain, and I've done a few skills for a few heros. (My map is "Huge")

So, now, I wanna try my skills with multiple people, see if there's no problems with my skills so far, but when I try to open it in Battle.Net, it says that the map file is too big.... Any thing I've done wrong?

 

[Gizmo III]

This means the size of the map file is too big to play on battle.net or lan. The limit is 4000kb, i think. You must shrink the file size in order to play it

 

[Dr Super Good]

Since a map is a MPQ, it could be used to transfer illegal content if the limate was too big on battlenet. Thus your map has to be of 4MB size inorder to be multiplayer (on battlenet). Lan multiplayer has no limates to size, same with single player. Remove imported content is the most recomendable way to reduce your size since some models are 500KB or bigger depending on how complex / badly made they are (like WoW imports). Also try optimizing your map for a few bytes here and there. Programs like vexorian's optimizer can reduce map size by up to 500KB if you have a lot of triggers and scripts.

 

[Ham Ham]

Are you using wav sounds on your map?
converting all wavs in your map to mp3 can decrease the size of your map a lot.

 

[Tonks]

Better yet; don't use custom models, or keep it to one or two.

 

[Ham Ham]

yes, you can make some imporvise instead of importing thousand of models.

 

[Raizek]

Ahh, thanks. Ill remove most of my custom models, thanks.