May Entry: The Old Cemetery

[NeonKnight]

Ok, so here's my map (so far, not sure if I want to tweek or not).

Making a map only 75 K and making it BIG (a cemetery) AND trying to put details in is...TOUGH!

So, here it is.

[Torq]

Look and feel are unique and stylised. Cool map Neon. Different too. It has an almost cartoony atmosphere.

Torq

[Baziron]

I like it. It's a tad yellow, but the overall (infra)structure can certainly be transferred to other types of graveyard (dark necropolis, f.e.)

[NeonKnight]

I went with yellow because I wanted a sort of 'deserty' color, but I can change the color up to a more yellowy green, more a dead grass color.

[waldronate]

If you turn off random dither on your PNG export then I imagine that your size will go down a bit. Random sequences don't compress at all. Those fuzzy edges in the shadows and path borders are probably a third or more of your total file size.

[meleeguy]

I ran your file thru PS7 "Save for Web..." which saves you 15k, there's one lower setting and even slight blurring saves another 10k.

[NeonKnight]

I ran your file thru PS7 "Save for Web..." which saves you 15k, there's one lower setting and even slight blurring saves another 10k.

Well Thank You.

There is some hope then I can put some more detail on and see if you would be so kind as to save with more detail for me.

Thank You.

[Midgardsormr]

I ran your file thru PS7 "Save for Web..." which saves you 15k, there's one lower setting and even slight blurring saves another 10k.

Notice that the file type has now changed. jpeg is much better at handling the blurs and angled lines. Waldronate was spot-on in his evaluation of the blurs in png format. Also, the angled lines are costing you quite a bit.

If you elect to go the jpeg route, I recommend you throw on some texture to disguise the noise the compression adds to flat colors.