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KomodoDragon - Thu Sep 15, 2005 11:01 am
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I've been told not to use jpg for everything because of a transparency problem, however, if I use png or gif the files are far to big and my lvz file becomes about 2 mb! That if much to big....

What is my best method of changing the exposions, bombs, guns and stuff with out using a lvz file or using a lvz file?

Mine GO BOOM - Thu Sep 15, 2005 12:35 pm
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Not to use as many frames. If you are doing an animation for some image somewhere (object only, not bomb replacement), you don't need 10 FPS. If you are doing a replacement for Continuum graphics, don't make them 5000x5000 sized images.

Beyond that, try making sure you are saving as 8bit images, and not 16+ bit.

KomodoDragon - Thu Sep 15, 2005 12:42 pm
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my bomb replacement is 65x65 although i surely could make it alot smaller.
65x65 x 13 images = 65x845 then with 10 fps = 650x845 which makes a 181kb png. Altogether I have like under 500kb in my .lvz file, but when I make a .lvz file with the build.exe it makes it over 2mb's!

As for how many bits it is, I didn't check on that, just whatever the default is I guess. I'll have to check and change that. My file was just over 100kb until I added this extra image.... so go figure eh...

KomodoDragon - Thu Sep 15, 2005 12:52 pm
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ok I reduced the size of my bombs image by about 50% and then saved it as a bmp and renamed it as a bm2. This brought my lvz file down to 2044kb! So I totaled up all the files that are included in the lvz file and it = 500.8kb! So what happens to make 500.8 kb 2044kb!

Cyan~Fire - Thu Sep 15, 2005 4:03 pm
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Well there must be something else in the LVZ. Use PNG instead of BMP, also.

KomodoDragon - Thu Sep 15, 2005 4:54 pm
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Finally, I found the problem... Had to go over each line very carefully, but I found it!

I had forgotten to replace one of the file for a jpg. So I changed it and my file size with extra files in it now is only just over 300kb!!!!! Victory!

Chambahs - Thu Sep 15, 2005 5:49 pm
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use PNG and PNG Crush and it will be less than 300kb

Bak - Thu Sep 15, 2005 7:50 pm
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not for photos or rendered graphics. JPG works better than PNG for those cases

Mine GO BOOM - Thu Sep 15, 2005 10:28 pm
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KomodoDragon wrote:

Finally, I found the problem... Had to go over each line very carefully, but I found it!

This is why I added the nice compression stats on my DeBuildLvz program, to show which files are the ones causing all the problems.

Quan Chi2 - Thu Sep 15, 2005 11:07 pm
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amazing lol

Chambahs - Fri Sep 16, 2005 11:50 am
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bak, can you let me be right for once? hush up

Bak - Fri Sep 16, 2005 11:56 am
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sure, just say something right and I won't have to correct you