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Oer The Dragon · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:32 pm Post subject: Sick! background size

I made a background, enlarged it so it would fit a whole continuum arena
now it's: 14142 x 14538 pixels and 114 mb size!!!

and that's in gif format: the smallest format there is

unbelievable. Lvz toolkit x wouldn't even start compressing it.... neither give the error message; Continuum only downloads lvz that are less than 4 megabytes (I don't blame it).

Purge · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 3:42 pm Post subject:

Ok, you might wanna shrink the image to about 600 x 600, use tiledmajick to set the dimensions and create a background INI file. From there you can BuildLevel it.

Also, GIF isn't the smallest format out there, and I think it's the opposite. PNG is best for Continuum, and JPG is best for backgrounds (well I think so).

Cyan~Fire · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 5:12 pm Post subject:

http://www.webreference.com/dev/graphics/compress.html
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Purge · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 6:04 pm Post subject:

I guess I was wrong about GIF...

I started to think that when I converted a BMP to GIF, then the file size became larger.

D1st0rt · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 6:42 pm Post subject:

Did you compress the gif at all? But yeah, I would go with PNG for just about everything except photos
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Purge · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 6:44 pm Post subject:

No, I didn't compressing anything. Just went with the ol' 'Save As' thingy.

Cyan~Fire · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 8:44 pm Post subject:

A GIF should never be larger than a BMP. That's just... impossbile (kinda).

D1st0rt · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 8:44 pm Post subject:

You're assuming the standard rules are in play

Purge · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 9:01 pm Post subject:

Well, then I guess I was one of the "kinda" people.

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jpg if it's something you don't mind getting some artifacts

png all-round

bmp if you're ultra-super-picky and want the absolute lowest filesize (sometimes, sometimes PNG is best)

Bak · Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 12:50 am Post subject:

that message from X-Lvz-Toolkit is a warning, the lvz file is still made, it's just bigger than 4 megs so users must download it by hand to use it
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Oer The Dragon · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 12:17 am Post subject:

ok... might wanna give me some instructions on the dimensions thingy

because: WHAT THA HECK?!?! add some buttons and help on that tiledmajick program cus lmao look at the attachment (is it ''Lossless compression''? )

and

Cyan~Fire · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 10:49 am Post subject:

Perfect screenshot.

Tiledmajick will just generate the LVZ INI code to repeat an image across the background of a level. So, you specify the width of the image, the height of the image, and the # that you want it to be. It doesn't touch the image itself, it just makes the map object code.

Oer The Dragon · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 11:59 am Post subject:

Purge · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 6:20 pm Post subject:

Then just select bits and pieces of it and set it as LVZ objects...

Oer The Dragon · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 7:43 pm Post subject:

with clit?

Purge · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 10:15 pm Post subject:

Doesn't have to be with CLIT, but it can. Just make the INI and, blah, you know the rest.

Cyan~Fire · Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 3:58 pm Post subject:

Make a pattern image to repeat for each of yours, use tiledmajick to generate the INI code for each area that you want to use.