New world map

[Torvak]

Will test it with an uncompressed tga right after breakfast.

[Torvak]

Ok try this.

Interesting the tga is now 39MB but zip still gets it down to 2.6MB.

[Leif_-]

Originally posted by Torvak:
Ok try this.

Interesting the tga is now 39MB but zip still gets it down to 2.6MB.

That's really just to be expected, as the map consists of large areas of uniform colour, which compress easily both with zip's compression algorithm and with targa's internal compression.

Incidentally, does anyone know of a more efficent general-purpose compression tool than bzip2?

[Torvak]

I prefer RAR for the better compression than Zip but as we've seen not everyone has that.

[Leif_-]

Originally posted by Torvak:
I prefer RAR for the better compression than Zip but as we've seen not everyone has that.

RAR is nice, but I find that it's only slightly more efficent than zip. Using maximal compression on the 11Mb newworld.tga zip compresses it to 7.3 MB, rar to 6.8MB and bzip2 to 5.1MB

Admittedly, image files isn't really what the compression alogrithms are optimized for, but I've seen the same trend in general.

[tinkthank]

You have done a truly excellent job. Thank you!

It pains me to even want to mention the tiniest of requests by such work, but should you ever consider it: Quite a few of the provinces look like they will be forests (because covered in trees) but are flagged plains or farm lands, etc. -- of course it is easy to just hit "i", but I was wondering: is this for balance reasons or is it unintentional?

[Torvak]

Hmm which province do you mean? It should now have the correct graphics for all the provinces if i didn't miss any.