Maps and RAM

I'm a new Mentor subscriber. After six months of GMing I realized this was the most flexible and enjoyable of VTT programs I've tried so I commited and also bought a bunch of map tile resources through the marketplace. After having a lot of fun making maps with the pretty tiles and dynamic lighting I realized my current map eats up nearly a gig of RAM. From reading the forums I know that's a "known issue" and that if I built maps out out Roll20 and upload them into it that will reduce the problem. So my questions are: 1. How do I access the tile resources outside of the roll20 VTT to make a less resource intensive map? 2. Can I reduce the RAM load of a map that is already made? For reference, here's my current campagin, and I am sure Devs can access the present player map. <a href="https://app.roll20.net/campaigns/details/201860/running-in-the-sun" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/campaigns/details/201860/running-in-the-sun</a>

In order to use your assets outside of the vtt, you have to download them from the market to your hard drive. There should be an option on the page for each map or tile pack in the market, except, some assets are only for use in roll20 and cannot be downloaded. Once you have them downloaded, you can use a photo editing program to make your maps, then re-upload the finished product to roll20. You can also use some mapmaking tools like pymapper or several others to do the same thing in a manner more like the roll20 interface than a photo editor.

"only for use in roll20 and cannot be downloaded." There's the rub. I bought a lot of good stuff that's Roll20 only. *Sad trombones." :(

you might try turning off the grid, then taking screen shots and stitching your map back together from the screen shots to make it smaller.... Out of curiosity, how did you determine that your map is taking up a gig? and how big is it? did you import the entire google map thing at max detail as a single map in roll20???? break it up into sections man!!!! sections!!!! multiple pages!!!!

I opened google with only the roll20 VTT running and chrome was eating up a little over 900 megs of RAM.

Please send me a join link. I would like to take a look at the map. Also, which Marketplace set(s) are you using?