[beatriz]

Do you need it raised up? Is 5 MB not enough?

Place your comments here

[Fernando Tella]

Usually the size is not high but sometimes it is needed a bit more. Could it be unlimited? As you usually check every material published you could control if somebody abuses the servers, etc.

[simmsimaging]

More would be better. Not everyone will use it anyway, but it would be nice to have the option.

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[Rickyx]

What I put in MyWonderfulMaterial.zip ?

Usually a material has at least 2 textures (colour, bump).
Usually this texture aren't littler than 800 x 600.
Let's say we use (at worst) a map 1024 x 768.
Saving as uncompressed Tiff, 8bit, we get an image of 2,28 MB (2.392.064 byte).

Plus, there is the standard scene preview (500 x 500 -> Png, 320 KB). It has beed requested more times to include this preview in the zip to have a preview while browsing with explorer.

And there is the MyWonderfulMaterial.mxm (117Kb, compressed about 90Kb).

Total is about 4,98Mb.

I can compress it a little using "Ultra" compression but i reached quite soon the limit.
If I have 16bit texture the space needed for one tiff became double.

Normally I don't reach the 5Mb limit, but i think 8-10Mb can increase the quality of the map you can upload (specially for people who can't host hy-res texture elsewhere).

Thank you,
Ricky.


Ps. using LZW lossless compression or Png I increase the 1024 x 768 limit.
But photographic images (with a lot of details) make compressions - LZW for Tiff and deflating for PNG images - less efficient.

[Bubbaloo]

I would like to see the limit increased. We would get better quality materials that way. Most of the time the materials I upload are not the same quality as the ones I create for renderings because of this limitation.

Thanks!

[beatriz]

Hi!

we've changed the limit to 10 MB. Let's see if it's ok.
Cheers,

[simmsimaging]

Thanks!

[Bubbaloo]

Hi!

we've changed the limit to 10 MB. Let's see if it's ok.
Cheers,

Cool! Guess I better start uuploading some now.

[Fernando Tella]

Gracias.

[Maximus3D]

Good call to bump it up to 10mb Beatriz thanks!

/ Max

[Fernando Tella]

Somebody has already taken advantage of the situation to upload the mxi and mxs files of the test scene render.

[simmsimaging]

I posted one that's just shy of 10MB - a Miller Genuine Draft label I did a while ago. Thought I'd try to be first with the new limit

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[Bubbaloo]

Thought I'd try to be first with the new limit

Don't you mean the "next limit"?

[simmsimaging]

Don't you mean the "next limit"?

groan.......



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