I saw that rar or zip files can only be 10 mb, i think this is very less since i build an amazing house that is not even so big and with not so much details as i saw from other on this website. And my house is 32 mb.. excuse me but how is it possible to upload wonderfull houses with an ammount of details if u can only upload just 10 mb:S

if im packing it in in winrar, its making 18 mb, so this is still too much. How can i make it smaller and how does everyone else it?

Thanks

If you have a house that is 32MB, then it is packed with cc. You need to remove the cc.

Some of that CC is almost certainly not stuff you've actually used on the lot - so it's even more important to remove the extra junk before uploading.

well honestly i didnt use so much CC. Whiterider probably remembers my other thread that i have problems with glinches on all my downloaded stuff cause of the Pets expantion/update.

Hmm also if im deleting that CC, the house looks less interesting than before unfortunatly. And i saw many houses here with lots of downloaded stuff in it and much bigger, i just dont seem to understand how they can be 10 mb.
I think ill start a blog or own website to upload it, cause its just a waist if im deleting everything from the house just to upload it here. Also it requires too much effort on MTS to simply share your creations.. that what I think. Love the site though, but i wish it was easier.

thanks anyway!!

You don't need to remove CC from the house - just from the sims2pack file. I don't remember your previous thread, but assuming you're on Windows, you'll just need to open the file with the Sims2pack Clean Installer, untick all the stuff that's included that either isn't used in the house or can't be shared with lots, then Save As. It's explained in more detail in the Creator Guidelines, if that's helpful.

You can, of course, upload the lot somewhere else. But anyone who downloads it will not only get the lot and the CC used in the lot, but a load of extra, unused random stuff which the game shoved in the sims2pack for no particular reason. Since the downloader doesn't know which CC items are actually used in the lot, they have to either install the whole lot including all the junk, or remove all the CC and just get the lot with EA furnishings. Remember that the unused files can be pretty much anything in your Downloads folder. It's a bit of a pain, but it's better to put some time into cleaning up your file, rather than taking the risk of, at best, spamming people's download folder with stuff they don't want, and at worse screwing up their game.

so for anyone who wanted to download my house, i have my own blog now and uploaded it there

Last edited by G.O.C. : 6th Jul 2012 at 4:58 AM. Reason: You may link your site in your profile!

7Z files can also compress better than RAR; you might want to try 7Zip.

thnx will do

edit: i downloaded 7zip but it makes just 1 gb difference with winrar.. 18 mb to 17 mb. Well ill let it go for uploading on MTS. Still available on my blog:

See profile for this link

Last edited by FurDesign : 6th Jul 2012 at 1:36 PM.

Hey whiterider, since you talked about sims2pack clean installer, i actually wondered something. Why sims 2? Im using sims 3, is there any program like this for sims 3? couldnt find it..

The other solution is to split your compressed file into multiple parts. Most programs like WinRAR and 7zip have the ability to specify a multi-part file.

However, I must admit that I'd never download a lot which takes 30 megs. My entire shared neighborhood was under 10 megs.

If you're using Sims 3, you can use CUSTARD (link is in the Creator Guidelines) for the same functions as the Clean Installer performs for Sims 2 lots.