RE: [GD-Windows] Image formats (was [Algorithms] Scrolling starfi eld)

[Andrew G. <ag...@cl...>]

TIFFs look interesting, I'll have to check it out.

It's not required that artists use the same format, just preferable. All out
resources are munched into platform specific formats in a build process but
we also have a variety of in-house tools that need to work with these
resources in their native format and that format also has to be supported by
3rd party tools such as photoshop. Ideally it'll also support palettised
images (with alpha) so we can allow artists to control colour reduction.

Both TIFFs and PSD seem to fit these requirements which is cool, although
I'm eyeing PSD with suspicion it being an Adobe thing :)


Andrew Grant-
Climax Brighton 



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rich [mailto:leg...@xm...]
> Sent: 31 July 2002 17:13
> To: gam...@li...
> Subject: Re: [GD-Windows] Image formats (was [Algorithms] Scrolling
> starfi eld) 
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> Does PhotoShop have problems with TIFF and alpha channels?  Personally
> I don't see that the artist must be required to use the same format
> for editing that the program eats during runtime.  A simple batch file
> or script and ImageMagick can do the conversion between the artist
> pipeline and the program.
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