How to reduce the size of a PAC file?

[John360]

Hi,Is there anyway to reduce the size of a PAC file?I downloaded Sheamus which was 326 KB and i want to reduce it to 306 KB.Is there any way?

 

[honkytonkman]

if you want to reduce a pac you must reduce the textures inside . the original BPE reduce size because are very compressed..when you have a file with textures in PAC it's always bigger than BPE. you have to get smaller textures inside

 

[HolyKrab]

Awesome bro....

 

[honkytonkman]

the problem about a bigger pac file can be bypassed touching ARC file .without new space in ARC only way to have a pac with same bpe size is working on textures..a fool exemple: if bpe is 50 kb and pac is 80 kb , you have to work on textures until you will have a pac less 50..if you do a pac with 40 kb or less then with the HEX editor you can put other 10 kb and you will have a pac same bpe: 50 kb. if textures are worked right your pac will have no problem injecting it with x-packer..and without touching ARC file.

 

[PunkDEverliving]

great info here honkytonk.
but I don't think he's going to use hex, now that we have nike's tool.
but still, nice share. learned something new today.

 

[John360]

Thanks honkytonkman,you helped alot!.I'am sorry for the late reply as i was very busy this full week.