[Freeciv-Dev] Re: unit animation file format

[Lukas Tönne <lukas.toenne@xxxxxx>]

Am Dienstag, 12. August 2003 04:10 schrieben Sie:
> For now we will stick with PNG for animation and other images.  Although
> this certainly has some drawbacks in the long term, its short-term
> advantages override this.  Later we may switch to something like MNG or
> FLC.
>
> For rendered animations, we would like to have the original rendering
> model as well.  This won't be distributed directly with Freeciv, but
> will be available for separate download by tileset authors.
>
> jason short
> (for the Freeciv maintainers)


I tried out the MNG format, but unfortunately this doesn't seem to solve the 
problem. The files tend to be even a bit larger than with PNG. 
Ok, perhaps there is no reasonable way to get this thing smaller. Would it be 
difficult / impossible to handle animation files with a size of about 1 MB 
(for one unit) and an entire size of about 50 MB ? Would this cause memory 
problems appart from download problems ?

Of course i will also give you the Blender "source" files with the animated 3D 
models. I'm also working on a Python script for Blender for creating tilesets 
within Blender.