Hi Smooth, yes you are quite correct. It is wrong for me to say the file structure, it is the file output options that I have an issue with.
I am doing absolutely nothing different in TW4 than I did in TW3, all I know is that time wise it takes a heck of a lot of time uploading than it used too due to the break down of the files.
Hmm, I haven't personally noticed this but then again I haven't had the time to test it fully. Is it a case of the images being "heavy" after being "diced" or the fact that you can make double the image files with a lower res and higher res option with TW4?
Check the weight of the image folder and compare.
Regards, Smooth 
Hi smooth, my output folders/files sizes
in TW3 are
Scene=17mb, images.zip=826kb Total Files to upload=39
in TW4
Scene=20mb
resources=1.25mb
maps=198kb
images.zip=2.61mb Total files to upload=192
Seems that there are big differences between to two. It is exactly the same tour recreated in both versions.
Hi smooth, I am not quite sure what you mean. I have not selected the option the slice display.
I cannot see how I can reduce the amount of files to be uploaded. Yes I can reduce the sizes but then I reduce the quality - I assume?
Quote: Originally posted by nerjaace on September-23-2008
Sorry smooth, are you saying that I could Zip the various folders i.e scene, maps, resources?
No that is not what I'm saying. Though, it is possible to upload to servers and unzip on the server.
The point I was making was "if" you have selected to "dice" your images this will add to the file count. From one single image to many pieces (I'm not sure how many, but lots). If you have a single complete image you can open that image from the scene folder in Photoshop or whatever your choice is for compressing and compress the image for minimising the file size. Saving download and upload times. It is clear form the figures you show between TW3 and TW4 that something is very different between the way the images are compressed. Keeping in mind that you have possibly 2 images for each scene - Low Resolution and High Resolution version and then on top of that "pre-view" tracks for both with TW4.
Regards, Smooth
Thank you.Smooth, you are right.
In publish settings window, if you check the box of Pano Size in Normal Scene Viewer, there will be two sets of image generated for normal view and full screen view seperately, and if you select that of Slice Display, the each image will be devided into many small pieces besides the originalsize one. The former one is for the better quality of the panos in different viewers while the latter one for the faster download speed, but both of which will enlarge your final tour size. If you uncheck them, your final tour will be almost the same as that of Tourweaver 3.00. You can have further test to see the differences. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Regards,
Joe Rao
then they would not know where to put it. 
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