On Saturday 29 Jan 2005 17:39, Frederic Bouvier wrote: > >Has anyone actually looked at how much of the base package is > >taken up by SGI+ format image files? (Which have absolutely > >abysmal compression ratios, but that's a different argument.) I > >wrote a quick script at one point to recursively convert all > >these to default-quality JPEGs, and the savings was staggering. > >Something like a 75% reduction. > > It is still true that JPEG have no alpha channel, so not all textures > could be converted. > > -Fred
So on the same merit, how about PNG? On average you get about 1/3 the size of the SGI file while still being loss-less and keeping the alpha channel. Dave Martin _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
