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William Knight
Sessions or scenes with heavy images can make load times for your players somewhat long (possibly a few minutes or more, depending on image sizes). I have some ideas in the works for improving performance, in the meantime some tips & tricks to reduce this:
  1. Compress images before uploading - I personally recommend using https://www.compressor.io (yes this site is legit and free). I have plans to include this compression feature seamlessly into the upload image workflow on Spellcanvas.
  2. Have your players join your session early, before you begin uploading images - the root of this problem is that when a player joins a party, all of the images in the current scene will get sent to the player. If your players are already connected to your party before you begin to upload heavy images, they will only experience the loading time of each image individually (much better user experience than loading several large images at once).