Re: [Torcs-ng-devel] The benefits of PNG vs. RGB

[Eckhard M. J. <ba...@ne...>]

Hi Hurana,

when Jean-Philipe wrote me this


> Actually, I just checked, it was commited 512x512 (aspect ratio not
> kept).
> 
> I only wanted to save disk space and up/download time (divided by 4).


I was thinking the same like you: Why not converting step by step any
textures to the PNG format :)
Thso saves a lot of disk space too.


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Am Freitag, den 28.11.2008, 13:45 -0500 schrieb Haruna Say:
> Hi,
>  
> Noticing while I was making some car liveries for myself, I noticed
> that the original PNG file of the skins are almost always half the
> size of RGB! I wonder, if we should re-texture-map some of the cars to
> use this file format instead, as it saves much more space. Since the
> file size is less, the graphics card has more 'free' memory space and
> we can put more details to our cars. Also, putting black (or any other
> colour, but black works best IMO) in areas where it's not 'mapped'
> also helps to save some space on both formats. So, I wonder if we can
> put these changes to the game.
>  
> -Haruna
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