I WANT TO ****ING KNOW HOW TO COMPRESS A MAP

[DARK]

I ALREADY USED mpqmaster mpqrecover wc3mapoptimizer 4.7 wat else do i need omfg u guys can it do it with no problem i wanna do that too ><

[Bushido]

Warned.
Also wrong Section.

[Senethior459]

Well... First I'd suggest calming down. You can't compress maps, big deal. I couldn't for a while, Vexorian's optimizer either made it just a few kilobytes, and it didn't work, or it made it bigger. I discovered a few functions in it that help, but not much.
I just use HeavyLocker, it's great at compression.
http://world-editor-tutorials.thehelper.net/protect.php
They have Vexorian's, HeavyLocker (the most recent version and the one before it), and ExtProtect if you scroll down to the bottom. Protection is optional, you don't need to select those options, just compress it.

[DARK]

so how do u use it

[scout109]

yes thank you very much that is just what i needed
now how do u use it

[Dekar]

Read the button? Use brain 1.0?
They normally just delete the gui triggers and optimize the script a bit.
So if you add something to a map (Cheatpack) the map will grow and you'll have
to remove something somewhere else to get it back to the original size.

[Senethior459]

Well, you open the program.
Open the map you want.
Choose Auto-detect for Buffer Size.
Choose Auto-detect for Table Size.
Choose High for Wave Compression.
If you want, choose Force ZLIB-Deflate (W3)
^^ That gives amazing compression.
Click the Options tab. Give it some external listfiles. I chose my MPQMaster and Xdep listfiles, if you use MPQRecover to generate one for the map, choose that also.
Exit the Options tab.
Click Save As...
Choose a filename and a place to save it to, and it will optimize it.

That's how I do it, it works fairly well that way.

[DARK]

it says i need a patch like wc3mapoptimzer were do u put it