Hi, Lucia.
After you have packed custom content and built your cubemaps, you can perform a repack to compress your map before you distribute it.
The easiest way to repack a map is to open the console in TF2 and type the following:
Replace mymap.bsp with the name of your map. This command string will compress your map and keep the same filename. The results will be printed in the console, and it will show the old file size and the new size. It will take longer to compress a large file. If you want to have a different filename for the compressed version, change it in the second parameter. make sure you make a backup of your map before you compress it.
For more detailed information about repacking, see this thread.
After you have packed custom content and built your cubemaps, you can perform a repack to compress your map before you distribute it.
The easiest way to repack a map is to open the console in TF2 and type the following:
bsp_repack maps/mymap.bsp maps/mymap.bsp
Replace mymap.bsp with the name of your map. This command string will compress your map and keep the same filename. The results will be printed in the console, and it will show the old file size and the new size. It will take longer to compress a large file. If you want to have a different filename for the compressed version, change it in the second parameter. make sure you make a backup of your map before you compress it.
For more detailed information about repacking, see this thread.
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Here, have this: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/30f30lhx1izvejd/AAAE7WqFsEbb0XnxX0NRTbKra?dl=0
What this really is is just a command I copied from the information thread of the repacking feature on this forum (thanks YM!).
There are two .bat files in the folder. One is called bsprepack.bat, the other is bspunpack.bat. The first one compresses your map, the second one uncompresses it (handy if you want to used a compressed map in something like SFM that still hasn't been updated to support repacked bsp files). To use it, select your map in the tf/maps folder, simply drag your completely finished map (that is: packed with all custom content (materials, models, sounds, particles and their manifest, nav files, etc) and has cubemaps in it (for both LDR and HDR if you compiled with both) onto bsprepack.bat, and watch it do its thing. When it's done it'll ask you to press a key, and it'll replace the unpacked map with the new repacked one. You'll know it worked when you see the file size jump down. If you want to uncompress a map, drag a compressed map onto bspunpack.bat, watch it do its thing, and then see the map's file size jump up when it's done.
What this really is is just a command I copied from the information thread of the repacking feature on this forum (thanks YM!).
There are two .bat files in the folder. One is called bsprepack.bat, the other is bspunpack.bat. The first one compresses your map, the second one uncompresses it (handy if you want to used a compressed map in something like SFM that still hasn't been updated to support repacked bsp files). To use it, select your map in the tf/maps folder, simply drag your completely finished map (that is: packed with all custom content (materials, models, sounds, particles and their manifest, nav files, etc) and has cubemaps in it (for both LDR and HDR if you compiled with both) onto bsprepack.bat, and watch it do its thing. When it's done it'll ask you to press a key, and it'll replace the unpacked map with the new repacked one. You'll know it worked when you see the file size jump down. If you want to uncompress a map, drag a compressed map onto bspunpack.bat, watch it do its thing, and then see the map's file size jump up when it's done.
Both methods are pretty dang easy but with console commands at least you don't have to download anything
Which is what I do here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/30f30lhx1izvejd/AAAE7WqFsEbb0XnxX0NRTbKra?dl=0
A folder containing a bat file for both repacking and unpacking. Drag 'n drop, and you're done.
