Problems exporting a "big" project

I looked at ImageOptim awhile ago and it sounds awesome. Alas, it's one of those rare OSX only apps, so useless to me until I get a mac (or a virtualbox going, more likely). Pngout is pretty good by itself.

If you do go the way of lossy (pngquant/tinyPNG), you can still shave a little more off by running ImageOptim afterwards.

For batching OGG's I like OggDrop. Tiny, powerful, and elegant. Just config the encoder, and drop in your files.

http://www.rarewares.org/ogg-oggdropxpd.php

BTW, Lost Spirits of Kael look great. Your art/animation is beautiful; I love the handdrawn look and the subdued colors. Really looking forward to it. <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile">

Hey, thanks for your kind words about Lost spirits of Kael. Hopefully I'll get the same type of visual result with Healer Quest (the project I'm currently struggling with the export).

I tested tinyPNG, and clearly this will be the way to go if I need to reduce quality. 80% size gain, with still OK result ! Wow !

On the other side I tested Oggdrop, and curiously it enlarged the files I dropped on it (despite the fact that I put the quality below 2)... I should be missing something here...

For your audio, you aren't re-compressing your ogg files are you?

If you are really dead set on further compression of your audio (and, frankly, I think you are making a mistake going below ~128kbps), you should at least start with the original, non-compressed files, which should be flac/alac/wav.

Re-compressing lossy formats, be they image or sound, introduces additional artifacts to the output. This is called generational loss: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_loss

Oggdrop defaults to quality 4 (q4). This is a quality mode, so it aims not for a particular bitrate, but a general level of quality. Put a bunch of different content in, though, and the bitrate will average to ~128kbps.

It may sound a bit better than C2's 128kbps output, since it's based on a more recent version of the ogg encoder.

Orchestral music can be very challenging for lossy formats; it tends to have more complex harmonics than typical pop/rock music, and a greater dynamic range. This is probably one reason your files are coming out larger than average.

For your audio, you aren't re-compressing your ogg files are you?

I first tested it the way you describe (in a similar way I would do with imageOptim), but ogg drop exported me wav files. So then I've used the original WAV PCM 16 file that I imported in C2. After re-checking, it seems that the file size for q2 in Oggdrop equals the size of 96 Kbps in C2.

I guess the thing to do is to use .ogg from oggdrop anyway, as the quality may be better for the same size.

Migrating to unity because of this problem, my game is larger than 50mb and can not be put into playstore

Migrating to unity because of this problem, my game is larger than 50mb and can not be put into playstore

rafaelsorgato

Please stop multi-posting the same post in different sections and also stop the pointless 'necro posting' of threads over 2 years old.

Thank you.