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#1 2009-06-15 08:28:46
- markyparky56
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Big projects
is it possible to upload a project that is larger than 10mb?
Because Scratch Galixses the game is getting pretty large. And i dont want to have to put it on a diffrent website, and have people download it from there to play it. 
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#2 2009-06-15 11:03:43
Re: Big projects
Just compress the game, you have to make it under 10 megabytes. There is no way around it.
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#4 2009-06-16 11:04:11
- markyparky56
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Re: Big projects
archmage wrote:
Just compress the game, you have to make it under 10 megabytes. There is no way around it.
Will compressing it make it bad online? and will downloading it still keep it normal?
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#5 2009-06-16 11:05:43
- markyparky56
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Re: Big projects
coolstuff wrote:
Yeah, you'll hafta compress. The Scratch team won't let you upload anything larger than 10MB onto the website.
Will it be ok to download?
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#6 2009-06-16 14:45:44
- yambanshee
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Re: Big projects
compressing does what it says, it lowers the quality but lowers the disk space.
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#7 2009-06-16 16:11:13
- markyparky56
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Re: Big projects
yambanshee wrote:
compressing does what it says, it lowers the quality but lowers the disk space.
Does the quality go back to normal if you download it?
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#8 2009-06-16 21:40:29
Re: Big projects
markyparky56 wrote:
yambanshee wrote:
compressing does what it says, it lowers the quality but lowers the disk space.
Does the quality go back to normal if you download it?
No, the file would still be 10MB if that were to be true. It's server space the team is worried about, much more than online performance. No, it won't go down. If you only compress it by a little the quality won't go down too much.
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#9 2009-06-17 11:21:27
- markyparky56
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Re: Big projects
coolstuff wrote:
markyparky56 wrote:
yambanshee wrote:
compressing does what it says, it lowers the quality but lowers the disk space.
Does the quality go back to normal if you download it?
No, the file would still be 10MB if that were to be true. It's server space the team is worried about, much more than online performance. No, it won't go down. If you only compress it by a little the quality won't go down too much.
ok, so your saying that, compressing it only lowers the online performance?
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#10 2009-06-17 11:33:31
Re: Big projects
Performance is not affected. It just changes the look of your images and the quality of your sounds.
The real reason for this limit is because no one wants to load a project past 10 megabytes. Most game sites have this limit.
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#11 2009-06-17 14:35:28
Re: Big projects
Electricmen 2 is about 12Mb... Compression affects quality, but can even increase performance. If you want to make possible to download uncompressed sb file, you can send it to rapidshare or other site like that, and then link it in the project notes.
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#12 2009-06-17 14:47:25
Re: Big projects
Sometimes if people have a really good flash game they can email the site admin and the site admin will give a person special permissions to upload larger files. Large scratch games are usually just uncompressed.
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#13 2009-06-19 08:04:02
- markyparky56
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Re: Big projects
archmage wrote:
Sometimes if people have a really good flash game they can email the site admin and the site admin will give a person special permissions to upload larger files. Large scratch games are usually just uncompressed.
Ahhh... right, cool, so have you had to do that then? if you know about it.
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#14 2009-06-19 08:05:41
- markyparky56
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Re: Big projects
filo5 wrote:
Electricmen 2 is about 12Mb... Compression affects quality, but can even increase performance. If you want to make possible to download uncompressed sb file, you can send it to rapidshare or other site like that, and then link it in the project notes.
ok, i dont understand, but ok... 
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