[Freeciv-Dev] Re: unit animation file format

[Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Lukas Tönne wrote:

> 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 ?

That MNG size issue sounds very fishy. I suspect that app doesn't optimize
it properly.

> 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.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa