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Offline RandomTiger

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on: October 25, 2003, 07:13:44 am
Ani's (correct me if Im wrong) are a collection of PCX files in one file. It would be nice to have a 32bit replacement, what would be the best way?

A file full of jpg or tga?
Avi?
Something else?
 

Offline FreeTerran

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Reply #1 on: October 25, 2003, 07:15:22 am
hmm i think high quality jpg are the best or avi but not tga
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Offline RandomTiger

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Reply #2 on: October 25, 2003, 07:16:49 am
TGA would probably lead to huge file sizes but why not avi?
 

Offline FreeTerran

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Reply #3 on: October 25, 2003, 07:18:36 am
i have only written not tga read carefully ;)
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Offline RandomTiger

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Reply #4 on: October 25, 2003, 07:20:44 am
Mmm... I think I need to sleep more.

If ANI's need to use alpha at all then we might have to go back to the green for alpha system.
 

Offline Bobboau

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Reply #5 on: October 25, 2003, 08:18:34 am
mayb suport for avi/mpeg
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Reply #6 on: October 25, 2003, 08:21:28 am
Well whatever you do make sure we can loop them.
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Offline kasperl

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Reply #7 on: October 25, 2003, 10:15:45 am
gif
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Offline FreeTerran

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Reply #8 on: October 25, 2003, 10:27:03 am
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Originally posted by kasperl
gif

:wtf: they are in 256 colors
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Reply #9 on: October 25, 2003, 10:33:43 am
Or some coder could make a ani builder that goes through 16 million clor pcx files and selects the best color palette so there's minimal color loss. Kinda like 2-pass avi encoding.
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Offline kasperl

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Reply #10 on: October 25, 2003, 10:50:06 am
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Originally posted by FreeTerran

:wtf: they are in 256 colors


sure?

my fault then, i haven't been doing any serious PSP stuff for some time now.
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Offline phreak

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Reply #11 on: October 25, 2003, 10:51:29 am
not to mention gif liscences cost a ****load of money

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Offline kasperl

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Reply #12 on: October 25, 2003, 10:52:09 am
liscences.  never tought of that.
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Reply #13 on: October 25, 2003, 11:30:03 am
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Originally posted by HotSnoJ
Or some coder could make a ani builder that goes through 16 million clor pcx files and selects the best color palette so there's minimal color loss. Kinda like 2-pass avi encoding.


Bright already does that. It's still not as good as having 24/32 bit images.
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Offline WMCoolmon

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Reply #14 on: October 25, 2003, 12:04:47 pm
Animated PNGs?
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Reply #15 on: October 25, 2003, 12:30:39 pm
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Bright already does that. It's still not as good as having 24/32 bit images.
where can I get bright?!
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Reply #16 on: October 25, 2003, 02:22:46 pm
Just so long as they get automatically resized in hi-res mode I'll be happy. :)
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Offline Sticks

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Reply #17 on: October 25, 2003, 03:04:10 pm
Definately png. A quick way would be to make the new ani format just a tar of pngs in sequential order. Maybe in the future use zlib to compress them or something. Although I believe pngs are already compressed, so that may not even be necessary.

EDIT:
Upon more reading, actually jpeg may be the way to go. PNGs do better with continuous color tones rather than subtle hue changes. JPEG may not be the most computationally conservative option, though.

Use the DivX codec!;)
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Offline Kazan

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Reply #18 on: October 25, 2003, 05:07:50 pm
AVI + DivX
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Reply #19 on: October 25, 2003, 05:13:51 pm
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AVI + DivX


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