Hi, My entire art folder is 32 mb, but in some scenes Im using a particular object which might be around 50 kb close to 200 times and Im also using the light feature ive overall used it around 40-50 times, my project file has gone up to 74 mb and Im really concerned about this as its taking time to load and I dont want the game to become so big. Is there any solution ? I deleted the the unused objects and removed the unused level objects from the tools section. Once i did that it became 45 mb, that was on an extra copy of the project file, but when i did that for the second time it didnt happen.
How big are your images files used in the entire project? Try compressing them first using tinypng.com Under view > atlasses > click on optimize
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the project size is always bigger than the game itself. Once you export your game the size will be smaller.
That's true. The game itself will be smaller. Use a compressing tool for your pngs and use your graphics in a ratio of 1:1. 50KB is a lot for a particular object. This should come in at 100 bytes or less. Then also check all the audio files. Delete all unused sound objects. If you have a lot of sound FX then don't import them twice. Choose them in the dropdown menu instead. That's about it and all you can do.
Most likely you are including assets that are too large and you are scaling them down inside Buildbox. Also you may be dropping the same graphics into Buildbox multiple times instead of reusing them.
Also wanted to add that any PNG compression done to your files before dropping in Buildbox won't make any difference in your final game size. It may make the BBDOC smaller, but that is all.
Mostly because they are combined into Atlases. The individual graphics do not exist in the exported project.
@Andy Thanks for the tips, compressing the graphics would have a been a major delay as I would have to re insert all the graphics once again and there are many physics based objects in each scene in my game. I deleted the all unused objects and optimized the altlasses, the size has come down to 45 mb, Im not dropping the graphics a second time into buildbox. But my main question is, Is using a particular object too many times say 200 times in a scene going to increase the size of the game ? Correction : The object size is 346 bytes not 50kb, dont know what I was thinking there
Also Sound object make a lot difference in your game size use the Audacity Software and compress your sound files than use them in your game.
I compressed my sounds to be much smaller, then when I exported my game into an APK, it was 10 mbs bigger. Do you know how to fix this?
@duslicrest Send me your mp3 file and also first remove all sound objects from the game and then start adding them again(compressed).
@duslicrest also note that when you want to use for instance same background music in Main Menu, Game Field, Game Over Screen etc, DON'T drop the same mp3 file on all. Just drop it on ONLY one and map the rest to it - In my main menu, I dropped a sound there - about 2mb - But in the game field, click the edit button and select the sound added in main menu. but as you can see, instead of me doing that, I dropped the same sound file on it hence I have 2 copies of the same music which if not mistaken takes the size to 4mb rather than 2mb
Sadly that's true, even in BB2. A check to identify and "normalize" identical soundfiles in large projects would be a nice option for the tools menu
@todro and @sysads, this is not an issue, simply use - Tools > Remove Unused Sound Objects. If you've accidentally added the same file more than once, this will remove any duplicates that are not in use. BB cleverly works out which one is not used, very cool I use this a lot when I tweak level for sound fx and background music and it works fine in both BB1 and BB2.
This is what I thought but it doesn't work. New project, the same file added to main menu and game field, edit list shows both and "Remove unused objects" says 0 removed. Actually we are talking about 2 different situations: imported but unused sound files and 2 or more identical soundfiles which need only one source to be referenced
Hi Not sure that works because buildbox should have flagged duplicate music file names when one drops the same music file in another scene. So I would assume what happens is when you drop 1.mp3 it tags with a unique ID and when you drop same file in another scene, it tags it with a different unique ID so treating it as 2 separate files irrespective of their filenames
