Why is my may so big?

[Jack Of Hearts]

So after downloading a few customs, creating (and deleting) a few areas that I was testing to see what kind of a tileset I wanted for my map, I decided to go with Barrens and get a start on it.
Except it's 4,830kb, and I just barely (emphasis on barely) threw down a few doodads/destructibles. I tried deleting things and the size actually went up, somehow, by about 400kb.
Excuse the typo in the title, it's somewhat late and I'm rather tired.

 

[LordDz]

Any imports / Sound?

 

[Jack Of Hearts]

Any imports / Sound?

None at all, and no plans to add any in.

 

[TheWhiteWolf]

Woah, no imports, and a blank map with only few doodads weights 5 mb?

[ Ornstein was the boss that made me give up Dark Souls... :'( ]

 

[Jack Of Hearts]

Should I just restart it? Planning on making a (reasonably) large map, can't really do that with such a huge dent in the limit.

Woah, no imports, and a blank map with only few doodads weights 5 mb?

Got imports, just not enough to justify nearly 5mb.

Ornstein was the boss that made me give up Dark Souls... :'(

Keep trying! It gets so much easier after them.

 

[LordDz]

None at all, and no plans to add any in.
Got imports, just not enough to justify nearly 5mb.

You lied to me. I will now and cry myself to sleep in the shower.

Post the map.

 

[Jack Of Hearts]

https://www.mediafire.com/?xbw70mt8h9x6702

 

[LordDz]

In the import manager you have 93 files, I would say that that's some imports.
Their size is 6.575kb.

Map looks good otherwise.

 

[Jack Of Hearts]

So even if the individual imports are relatively small it would still be enough to add up to almost 5.mb?

 

[LordDz]

Well, BRUTAL~1.MDX is 399kb, HereticButher is 330, HeroDemonHunter 254..
They add up.

You have several models that doesn't load, I'd suggest either fixing them or removing them. Then you can always use an optimizer to squeshe away some kbs.

 

[TheWhiteWolf]

Well, basically what LordDz said. On all three posts. Except the crying in the shower part

 

[Dr Super Good]

So even if the individual imports are relatively small it would still be enough to add up to almost 5.mb?

Well you cannot even see a bacteria let alone feel one yet there is over 500 billion tons of bacteria in the world, thousands of times more than the combined weight of humanity. Each file may be reasonably small, but if you have a lot of them they sum to something large.

 

[sethmachine]

It's very easy to reach the 8 MB limit (imo it is far too small), especially if you are using quality models/imports and especially your own sound/music.