Forum: Carrara


Subject: Need some suggestions regarding file sizes

sparrownightmare opened this issue on May 27, 2008 · 5 posts


sparrownightmare posted Tue, 27 May 2008 at 6:36 PM

Hi

Well I am trying to prepare a package to upload to the Marketplace, but I am running into a major problem.  The maximum file size they alllow is 70MB in 2 maximum files with a max of 35MB each.  My problem is that after stripping out all unused shaders and objects, I simply cannot get the .car file lower than about 45MB.  Has anyone else run into this problem uploading Carrara items to the marketplace.  I cannot remove anything else without compromising the model.   If you look at the latest post in my gallery, the pack is the lighthouse on the mossy rock and the stairway and Piers.  The model is made of simple spline objects and .jpg format textures were used for the skins.  I wish they would up the file maximum here or at least let you use .rar since it compresses things smaller.  I don't think they realize how large a simple .car file can be.  Those minimums work fine for poser stuff since the files for poser tend to be on the smallish side.  But with Carrara, you either have to save all the texture maps internally or you have to deal with a few dozen or more external maps which take up even more space.  Argh... Any suggestions deeply appreciated while I still have some hair to  pull out.