Publishing a 120MB campaign

[Spannerbag]

Hiya,
I've finally finished my campaign and I am trying to publish it, but the upload fails.

This is my very first campaign and I'm completely new to uploading add-ons.
The add-on looks fine in the upload "preview": the icon (a data uri) works OK and everything else seems present and correct.
The system asks me to confirm the copyright details and I click OK. It has a brief think, the screen does something (but too quick to make out) then it disconnects.

The issue (I think) is that it's too big: the entire campaign is just over 120MB of which 107MB is music.
Am I right? Is 120MB too much for the add-on server to swallow?

As the music itself is >100MB (which I understand is the current limit) I cannot just hive off the music, I need to merge (I guess) two [music] directories: one that comes with the campaign and a dependency that adds additional music in the same directory.
Is this possible and if so, could someone please give me an example of how to configure _server.pbl and _main.cfg for the additional music?

I've spent ages debugging and playtesting the campaign and I really don't to change the WML and re-test if I can avoid it so any guidance would be greatly appeciated. In case you're curious, there's a lot of music because various groups have their own themes...

Thanks in advance for your time and trouble, it's appreciated!

Cheers,
Spannerbag

[Pentarctagon]

Just in general, it's good practice to separate things that take up a lot of disk space but are unlikely to frequently change into one or more separate dependencies. Otherwise people would need to redownload the entire campaign even for just fixing a typo.

As for your questions specifically, there's no problem with having the music split into two other dependencies. You just need to make sure to include them with [binary_path] in your _main.cfg.

[Spannerbag]

Hi Pentarctagon,
Thanks for the swift reply!

Just in general, it's good practice to separate things that take up a lot of disk space but are unlikely to frequently change into one or more separate dependencies. Otherwise people would need to redownload the entire campaign even for just fixing a typo.

As for your questions specifically, there's no problem with having the music split into two other dependencies. You just need to make sure to include them with [binary_path] in your _main.cfg.

OK, so as I'm a bit dim, can I break this down a bit?

So what I need to do is
i) split the music into 2 chunks of ~50+ MB each
Would having 2 music subdirectories work? (e.g. [music] and [music2]?)
ii) add [binary_path] entries to _main.cfg so that WML does not need changing?

I can easily test these first 2 steps in my campaign (if stuff in [music2] plays OK it's worked).

Then I need to hive these off into a separate add-on, which is where I get consufed.
I can add the dependency in the main ("parent"?) campaign to include the music if required but I am unclear how to actually hive off the music directories into a separate add-on (as I say, I'm totally new to this).

Again, aplogies for being dim!

Cheers,
Spannerbag

[Pentarctagon]

I would say to create two music pack add-ons, named say My Music Pack 1 and My Music Pack 2. Add both those as dependencies to your campaign add-on, and also in the campaign's _main.cfg add them with [binary_path]:

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[binary_path]
	path=data/add-ons/My_Music_Pack_1
[/binary_path]
[binary_path]
	path=data/add-ons/My_Music_Pack_2
[/binary_path]

Adding [binary_path] will make it so that Wesnoth will also look in the My_Music_Pack_1/music and My_Music_Pack_2/music directories when trying to find what song to play.

[Spannerbag]

Hi again,

I would say to create two music pack add-ons, named say My Music Pack 1 and My Music Pack 2....

Many thanks for your time (and patience!).

I've split the music into add-ons (AfterEIMusic1 and AfterEIMusic2) and this works
I've also (hopefully) created correct _server.pbl and _main.cfg files for these add-ons.

In the "parent" campaign's _server.pbl, what do I put in dependencies=? Just the top-level directories?

I.e. is dependencies=AfterEIMusic1,AfterEIMusic2 what's needed?

Cheers,
Spannerbag

[Pentarctagon]

Correct. If your add-on is at data/add-ons/AfterEIMusic1, then you would have AfterEIMusic1 as the dependency.

[Spannerbag]

Correct. If your add-on is at data/add-ons/AfterEIMusic1, then you would have AfterEIMusic1 as the dependency.

Many thanks, I tried that anyway and it worked (unusual for me for things to work first time ).
Heh, I've got my life back!

Many thanks again for getting me over the line

Cheers,
Spannerbag