Hi all,

When I checked my last virtual tour total weight I was very surprised how heavy it was. So I did some tests which delivered a very crazy results.

So here are two panoramas:

(I uploaded the panoramas just in case someone wanted to test it by themselves, but bare in mind that they are very heavy full res panos)

pano1.jpg - 7708 x 3854 - 90 dpi - 14.7 MB - 15,072 KB
pano2.jpg - 7708 x 3854 - 90 dpi - 8.83 MB - 9,048 kB

After run kmakemultires to convert them into tiles (using this configuration ) this are the results:

pano1 - 91 tiles - 818 square px each - 5.28 MB
pano2 - 91 tiles - 818 square px each - 26.5 MB !!!

So how is it possible that a 6 MB lighter can result into a 21 MB heavier tiled-panorama?
I several test having similar results I have to say that I am totally confused!

Cheers!

Thank you very much for the reply Klauss,

The jpg compression was the only variable I didn't take into consideration.
I will try to follow your advise and I'll post the new results.

Thank you very much for your hard work!

Cheers!

Thanks for the replies.

I've made some tests saving the images with different jpg qualities (10 and 12), formats (baseline standard and optimized) and types (jpg and tiff).

To be honest, I've got similar results with all of them. Same folder weight.

So the weight of all the tiles has nothing to do with how the jpg was saved. It's definitely related to the complexity of the image.

Every tile from the trees panorama, was heavier than the tiles form the room panorama. Hence the massive weight difference .

I guess the mystery is solved.

Cheers