How to greatly reduce the build size of a #Godot game: popcar.bearblog.dev/how-to-minif... #GodotEngine #GodotTip - ThreadSky

steinmakesgames.bsky.social • 35 days ago

How to greatly reduce the build size of a #Godot game:
https://popcar.bearblog.dev/how-to-minify-godots-build-size/
#GodotEngine #GodotTip

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andreasng.bsky.social•34 days ago

Uhhhhh nice! Small file sizes is really inspirering. I can't help grinning when I see how small indie games or programs for that matter can get. Blender. Godot.

twintaildigital.bsky.social•35 days ago

kobligo.bsky.social•35 days ago

Some of the info in that blog post seems to be incorrect, and even with 100% of features and classes deactivated I cannot build a windows template that's below 26MB. We used to be able to make much smaller templates. 🥲

gondera.ge•35 days ago

For an 888MB game, I'm not sure the effort is worth it to lose 72 MB? Unless if the optimizations scale with project size, and my project would see a massive reduction.

adriaan.games•33 days ago

your biggest size optimizations are going to be in assets imports!

gondera.ge•33 days ago

Hmm, the article above doesn't mention anything about asset imports being optimized. Could you explain more what you mean by the size optimizations being in the asset imports? For context, I'm working on pixel art game with a window size of 480x360, and thousands of assets are individually < 100 KB.

gondera.ge•33 days ago

Windirstat screenshot. Ignore the big blue block, that's git.

adriaan.games•33 days ago

each asset can be compressed when exporting your project. you can click on one (or multiple assets of the same type) and check the import tab for settings.

compression can be great and usually doesn’t affect quality significantly while reducing size.

adriaan.games•33 days ago

but size isn’t everything. some compressions require decompressions that can be CPU heavy. but unless you can see you’re hitting a ceiling, thats not something to worry about

gondera.ge•33 days ago

ah, alright. i get it now :D

loam-d.bsky.social•35 days ago

Thank you for sharing these arcane secrets

kurttaylor.bsky.social•35 days ago

Ooh this looks interesting

adriaan.games•35 days ago

pretty easy to optimize a basically empty project, lol

rp.wtf•35 days ago

Yeah, in my experience on a "real" project, you might save like 20 or so MB at the cost of having to compile for every target platform. Then recompile if you start using a new type of node which hadn't been used before.

I guess, you can set up CI to do that for you, but not sure if it's worth it

noidexe.bsky.social•35 days ago

Regarding CI, https://www.w4games.com/w4build is the most popular product where I work.
I haven't checked if all the optimizations mentioned here are already supported but its definitely convenient if you need to auto build and deploy

rp.wtf•35 days ago

Yup, I'm familiar with W4build, although not intimately, so definitely something to check out for the future!

hephepteam.bsky.social•35 days ago

From this reading I retain: try compiling with the "optimize size" option, and if there's not performance issue, it's a win! otherwise 🤷

helianthus-games.itch.io•35 days ago

A great write up, I just wish it wasn't so hard to do in the first place, it was rather confusing to me when I started with Godot why it bloats the exe with unused features

arcadenest-games.bsky.social•35 days ago

Thank you

jeremy.laumon.name•35 days ago

That amount of modularity is pretty amazing.

Also TIL about UPX to compress any executable, it's also pretty cool!
https://github.com/upx/upx

gondera.ge•35 days ago

It sounds nice for web projects, so players with slower internet don't have to download as much. but oof... hope that the game's decompression living in ram is worth it

azzurraleamonde.bsky.social•35 days ago

📌

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