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Custom Sprites
#1  September 09, 2010, 06:51:17 am
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When creating custom sprites, which format is best?
Bmp or Png?

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Re: Custom Sprites
#2  September 09, 2010, 06:57:37 am
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Png. But if you are doing individual sprites themselves (not a sprite sheet) then Gif is best.

Bmp is a filesize-hog.

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#3  September 09, 2010, 08:45:21 am
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Makes no difference whatsoever these days. You still have to convert them to a mugen usable format afterwards.


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Re: Custom Sprites
#4  September 10, 2010, 08:31:04 am
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very true!!

I use png, seems more friendly to me
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Re: Custom Sprites
#5  September 10, 2010, 09:12:34 am
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If by any chance you're going to use Paint Shop Pro then I would avoid PNG as it always scrambles the palette order when it saves. Use PCX instead as it's a smaller file size than BMP.

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Re: Custom Sprites
#6  September 10, 2010, 10:07:55 am
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Drex said, September 10, 2010, 09:12:34 am
If by any chance you're going to use Paint Shop Pro then I would avoid PNG as it always scrambles the palette order when it saves.
You should have options for when saving a .PNG, click the word ""Options"", you should then see 2 boxes, one of them reading ""Interlacing"", the other one  reading ""File Size Optimization""


The interlacing is not the problem, the file size optimization, is, by default it's set to ""Optimized Palette"", which basically means ""create a new palette order from start to finish using only the colors on the image itself"" [ This saves memory ]

You need to set it to ""Nonoptimized Palette"", which means ""leave mah palette the fuck alone n' just save mah image, bitch >:"" [ lol ]


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Re: Custom Sprites
#7  September 10, 2010, 10:21:32 am
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Hmm... I know what you're referring to, but it no longer asks me that when I save pngs. I may have to go into the options to change that. Thanks for letting me know that.

Unrelated side note: The good thing about the optimization option is that it's a life saver for indexing images that don't share colors. For instance if you make a 9000,1 portrait as long as the top portion has at least one solid line of pink (background color) when it's saved the pink will automatically be set to pal# 0. This is VERY useful when one needs to convert a lot of unique images (like a 3D stage for example).

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#8  September 10, 2010, 10:57:15 am
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Drex said, September 10, 2010, 10:21:32 am
Hmm... I know what you're referring to, but it no longer asks me that when I save pngs. I may have to go into the options to change that. Thanks for letting me know that.
Odds are you're using a much newer version than I am anyways [ I'm still using 7 ] so probly, and yw

Drex said, September 10, 2010, 10:21:32 am
Unrelated side note: The good thing about the optimization option is that it's a life saver for indexing images that don't share colors. For instance if you make a 9000,1 portrait as long as the top portion has at least one solid line of pink (background color) when it's saved the pink will automatically be set to pal# 0. This is VERY useful when one needs to convert a lot of unique images (like a 3D stage for example).
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