I am getting ready to launch a new texture package. It wound up being a fairly comprehensive package and rather large. I originally started out with tif's for the high res images for body and face but now that I have so many it's jacked the file size up to huge I've taken a look at some of the large files I've downloaded off the MP and the largest was 35 MB...this is easily double that. Is that too large? Should I switch the tif's to jpgs? do you think there is will be a noticible difference in image quality? The textures themselves are 2000 x 2000. Help? Please? I need input..I'm on a crappy dialup and I know that a 60 mb download would take forever for me....

I wouldn't want to try to d/l 60Mb it would take me forever, if you save them as jpg's and drop the compression right down to 1 it would make the files a lot smaller and you wouldn't lose any detail that you could see with the naked eye at least that's what my manual for psp says :)

He's right. If you save them as jpegs with a good program, like photoshop, or psp, then you shouldn't even be able to detect a difference. You can probably even compress them a bit more than the minimum with little diffence. It'll chop that file size by a considerable amount. Good luck! Dragontales.

Thanks guys! I had already almost made up my mind to do just that but wanted to get some feedback first! ;)

The important thing when saving a jpg in Photoshop is tobe sure you don't choose too low a quality level - below about 8 is pretty much unusable for as texmap. A 2000x2000 texmap could be saved at level 10 or more and still be a perfectly reasonable file size. How many such files are included in the package? :] FishNose