AE Mission Arc too large - HELP PLEASE!


Lady_E

 

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Ok, so I've been writing this AE mission arc and I'm finally done with it, but it's 5% too large. The advice being given is to delete a custom character group, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to do that. Looking back on it, I admit I created way too many custom characters (2 types of minions, 2 types of lieutenants, 2 types of bosses), but I had no idea they would take up so much space.

Does anyone know how to delete a group of characters from a custom character group? I really don't want to have to re-write the mission again, but I will if I have to.

Please help if you can. Thank you.


 

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Looking back on it, I admit I created way too many custom characters (2 types of minions, 2 types of lieutenants, 2 types of bosses),
If it is only 6 custom characters it is not a huge amount. There may be other things that take up space also, but a single custom character is a comparatively large entry though.

You can also include standard characters in your custom group, which will use less space in the arc file. But they will also typically be more limited in level range.
And nowadays you can also change the colour of the outfits of a number of the standard mobs, plus also add a custom name and description. So they can pretty much appear as a custom character without actually being one.

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Does anyone know how to delete a group of characters from a custom character group? I really don't want to have to re-write the mission again, but I will if I have to.

Please help if you can. Thank you.
A customer character always need to be part of an enemy group. If you want to remove a character from a custom group, reassign it to some new group.


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Does anyone know how to delete a group of characters from a custom character group? I really don't want to have to re-write the mission again, but I will if I have to.
Edit the character you want to delete from the group. Go to the last screen of the custom character creator and set the character's group to some other name.

I usually put my characters in a group called "Overflow" which is never used by any of my missions.


 

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Thank you both so much!! I appreciate the help!