[0.23] Squad Texture Reduction Pack - B9 and KW Packs also

[bulletrhli]

I spoke with the creator and he said he will not be updating it. He asked if anyone wanted the Source Code and he will give full rights to them to further improve and update this mod.

Can we get an update to your texture pack reduction thread any time soon?

Probably not, but anyone that wishes is welcome to do what I did. I have no license restrictions on my work. I can post instructions if you think it is needed.

[PolecatEZ]

Unless the file structure changes for gamedata/squad, this pack won't go out of date until someone comes up with a better way to reduce texture sizes. I see there has been some progress on that front, but I'm not sure if it does the same thing.

This pack should work as normal, at about 99% of the efficiency as before. Leaving the hi-rez textures for just the new parts won't kill your system.

[DasBananenbrot]

Then you should change the title to 0.23. Although it is still working many don't know that and maybe scared off by the fact it says it is for 0.21

[somnambulist]

I might be interested in taking it up -- it's very similar to the work I did for KW Rocketry+.

[Donziboy2]

Looking at the B9 pack and noticed it only has PNG's in it, they will not overwrite tga's.... Does this actually have any effect?

[KASAGD]

outstanding work!

[Briareos]

There's also this mod now, it compresses textures on the fly. People have been getting really great memory savings with it:

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/59005-0-23-Release-1-1-Active-Memory-Reduction-Mod

[Spartan125]

For some reason I am not getting the RAM usage reduction that I got before with the B9 and KW packs. I had actually used them before and installed them the same way and they still worked but now they don't.

[richardmg9]

Does not seem to work anymore. This removes most model textures and strangely enough removes staging and does not allow engines to fire.

[bulletrhli]

I don't think you guys are installing it correctly then because this mod works just fine for myself. As for B9, it already has a reduced size optional install which makes this texture pack reduction for B9 obsolete. As for the Squad pack, it does reduce the majority of the parts but its not updated completely with all parts just yet unless someone wants to take that task upon them.

[Bloodbunny]

There's also this mod now, it compresses textures on the fly. People have been getting really great memory savings with it:

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/59005-0-23-Release-1-1-Active-Memory-Reduction-Mod

Yep, it is great, and will be the next best thing to 64. For now though, the newest versions of that mod seriously bork up a lot of textures, and will make your game look absolutely (almost unplayable) terrible. New config files have to be written for each part of each mod to avoid this, so reduction packs still have a place in KSP.

Edited January 6, 2014 by Bloodbunny

[Astronomer]

KSP doesn't load: ಠ_ಠ

With this mod: ಠ⌣ಠ

[firefrog]

Wow! I had quite some RAM issues lately (before .23 it worked w/o problems, but now it doesn't - might be a couple of new mods...), but with this mod I can even have firefox open and it still works :>

I'm experiencing only one issue: when I just wanted to start my new MapSat, it says it deleted my all my flag-"flights" due to a missing part. Why is that? Anyone else having that problem? I mean, it's only flags, but... still. You know?

[Helix935]

why won't it let me uninstall itself? how do i uninstall because i don't use steam

[Shad0wCatcher]

Hope you made a backup of the Squad folder. Otherwise find a way to re-download the game as the reduction packs *replace* textures with lower resolution ones.

[Helix935]

Hope you made a backup of the Squad folder. Otherwise find a way to re-download the game as the reduction packs *replace* textures with lower resolution ones.

i did make a back up and a back up of the back up which i not only replaced the normal parts but replaced the first back up just to be sure

[ScallopPotato]

I've tried following the install instructions for Mac and it doesn't work. For one, I don't have any application to run the script on, and terminal doesn't do anything when I put in the script.

With KW, I followed the instructions shown and it make all my KW craft unable to load.

I'm confused.

[Woopert]

I've tried following the install instructions for Mac and it doesn't work. For one, I don't have any application to run the script on, and terminal doesn't do anything when I put in the script.

With KW, I followed the instructions shown and it make all my KW craft unable to load.

I'm confused.

I used to play on Mac so I understand that. If you're looking for improved performance, it might be simpler to use rbray89's Texture Compressor. Basic works well for a few mods here and there, but aggressive apparently replaces the need for texture reductions.

Link: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/59005-0-23-Release-2-15-Active-Texture-Management-Save-RAM-without-reduction-packs%21

[somnambulist]

I've tried following the install instructions for Mac and it doesn't work. For one, I don't have any application to run the script on, and terminal doesn't do anything when I put in the script.

With KW, I followed the instructions shown and it make all my KW craft unable to load.

I'm confused.

See my post here.

[jamieT6]

Hey can you make it so that the .bat file stops and says it has successfully installed. or not in some cases. would be nice since sometimes my computer dosen't play nice

[the3rdshoe]

So I tried installing this and it corrupted my original squad files and basically did nothing in the way of helping my game go faster. Chances are this happened because I don't really now what I am doing with computers often and didn't install the mod correctly. For more explanation, it made more than half of the parts pure white figures. If someone could enlighten me on what to do to remedy this I would appreciate the help.

[almagnus1]

As an FYI to the mod author, here's a PowerShell script that deletes the .TGAs from a directory if there's a .PNG in it that shares the same name. The inteded usage is something like:

<script name> B9_Aerospace

Which would cause it to execute the following, and remove the redundant TGAs from B9 Aero's directory.

Param(
    [string]$directory
)


if(Test-Path $directory)
{
    $items = Get-ChildItem -Path $directory -Recurse -Include *.tga;

    $deletion = @();

    foreach($item in $items)
    {
        if(
            Test-Path(
               $item.Directory.ToString() + "\" + $item.Name.Split(".")[0].ToString() + ".png" 
            )
        )
        {
            $deletion += $item.FullName.ToString();
        }

    }

    foreach($del in $deletion)
    {
        Remove-Item $del;
    }
}
else
{
    Write-Output "Please provide a valid directory as the argument";
}

[Dimetime35c]

does this still work in .23 and if so how much does the quality of the parts drop? like will it reduce them to the point they look muddy and you cant really see any detail?

[PolecatEZ]

It still works on about 95% of the parts. I highly recommend using the Active texture reduction mod instead, as it does the exact same thing but in a more dynamic fashion. The only advantage this would have is reduced load times for the first run of the mod, after the second or subsequent times you run the game, active texture reduction mod is a clearly better choice.

[NathanKell]

Um, but your Interals optimization is a different kettle of fish--that is still very useful since it gets rid of texture duplication.