Filesize Bug when /remip; savemap ? please help!

zombie-apocalypse | 2012-10-08 17:40

Hi Everyone!

I'm on linux, running the justice-edition from the zipfile.
I might have discovered the following bug:

Our map has 880k cubes now, file-size is 682kb.
If i "/remip; savemap" it suddenly gets 1,1mb and by that strikes the 1MB sendlimit of SB-servers (map too large or something)
If i only "/savemap", it keeps the filesize.
Once it increased the filesize, it is irreversible, however.

I do need "/remip; savemap" and "/remip; sendmap" (same problem) dearly, because otherwise I lose my connection to the server.

Others could reproduce the filesize-change. Players who just /savemap don't have it. I do "/remip; savemap" since a long time now. Yesterday was the first time I noticed this problem since it struck the 1MB /sendto limit.

Please help me:

1) do you know of the problem, what could it be? will there be a fix?

2) do you know another workaround for me to savemap and sendmap without lagging out?

thanks and
love, meow! =)

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Suicizer | 2012-10-08 17:55

1) If you would edit again (and somewhere which affects a large area), the file-size could drop again.
It actually isn't a problem, as Cube Engine 2 was designed (and still seems so) to port small to medium sized maps which were about 300kb in file-size from peer to peer.
Your intention of using Cube Engine 2 as a platform to share rpg-sized maps between players just isn't fitting to Sauerbraten. A similar case of that is; a fork isn't meant to eat soup with, is it? Well so isn't Cube Engine 2 for such maps.

2) You can beg Eihrul about increasing the file-size limit to something like 2Mb, or make your very own mod which allows this.

typhoon | 2012-10-08 21:24

The size limit was bumped to 4MB in SVN.

zombie-apocalypse | 2012-10-09 18:32

thank you two for the info. I hope they'll add /sendto and /givemaster too. and fix the lagging out bug + allow "RPG" sized maps =P

@suicizer: I didn't quite catch your compassion, since I prefer to use sporks o.O

skiingpenguins | 2012-10-08 19:25

try this:

/maxmerge 12 ; remip ; savemap

zombie-apocalypse | 2012-10-09 18:38

thank you very much for your help, skiingpenguins.

I guess this refers to something like "merge up to max gridpower 12" since it isn't documented in the editref.

I tried it and I didn't lag out, also i could send again. However the map is 1,0 mb instead of 1,1 now. sooo. only a slight improvement. /maxmerge 6 gave me 1,1 btw...

love, meow! =)

zombie-apocalypse | 2012-10-15 22:17

WE FOUND A WORKAROUND - YAAAAYYYYY!!

- Selecting the entire map (with /gridpower 12 for example)
and
- pressing C

breaks all remipping and gets the map back to its sleek size (700kb instead of 1,1mb). /savemap highly recommended =)

love, meow! =)

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