Making PPFs...

[Gandorf]

Think I have been making them wrong but am not sure. For original file do I use the original map or my modded map? When I use and Original map for the original file and my modified map for patched file and then apply it that makes my map file like 2 gigs. Am I doing it backwards? Not a noob, just something seems wrong to me.

[kaptainkommie]

Think I have been making them wrong but am not sure. For original file do I use the original map or my modded map?

Obviously you use the ORIGINAL map.

When I use and Original map for the original file and my modified map for patched file and then apply it that makes my map file like 2 gigs

That doesn't make any sense, the PPF patch format shouldn't/doesn't add to the filesize when you patch. You're not trying to make a patch of bitmaps.map are you? Or a rebuilt map?

[Gandorf]

Why would it matter if it is a patch of the bitmaps? I don't have to worry about the bloodgulch.map anymore because I have rebuilt it now, but the one I was using before wasn't rebuilt and when I apllied the patch it made the file over 2 gigs, as does my bitmaps patch.

[kaptainkommie]

The PPF specification atleast for versions 1 & 2 are made to patch files of the SAME SIZE. Your two bitmaps file are different sizes.

[Gandorf]

They are exactlly the same size. 309,766 KB.

[kaptainkommie]

That doesn't mean they are exactly the same size. You need to compare how many BYTES they have. Windows rounds the KB size so its not exact. But if they are the same size, then they should work.

[Gandorf]

Alright, they are also exactly the same in bytes. 302 MB (317,199,907 bytes) That is what both of them say.

[kaptainkommie]

Hrm, that's weird it should work perfectly.

[Gandorf]

Anyone else have any ideas? I just remade the patch and applied it and my bitmaps still comes out as 1.8 gigs, it says only 213 bytes modified when I apply patch. Here is a link to the patch I am applying.

DL PPF Here