Re: [Arianne-general] <-- New programmer/graphics designer

[Drew P. V. <dv...@in...>]

>They have some tricks to make the game smallers to distribute it throught the
>Net.
>They just convert all the WAV to MP3 and the BMP to JPG and zip it in a file.
>When unziping, they just convert it back to WAV and BMP. There is no quality
>lost, and you can take 800Mb to 60Mb. I have seen this.

To put it bluntly, you are wrong. There is a considerable amount of
quality lost, especially with converting BMPs to JPGs. And, while you
probably don't hear it on a pair of $30 desktop speakers, when you hook
your computer up to a good stereo system with a good sound card, you hear
it. Oh do you ever hear it.

And in general, this is a bad idea. Media sizes should be dealt with
natively. What you are suggesting is almost like wrapping a great painting
with a dirty rug, so that it won't break when in a moving truck (sorry,
kinda bad analogy, but I used to work for a moving company).

--Drew Vogel (I am God. Really ... I have a book that says so.)