On lundi 01 décembre 2008, Erik Hofman wrote: > James Turner wrote: > > On 1 Dec 2008, at 11:03, Alexis Bory - xiii wrote: > >> For the remaining .rgb files, yes it's also possible to switch them to > >> png though it's going to be a huge commiting work as the f-14 use > >> tenth of different textures. I'll try beginning with the biggest > >> textures. > > > > An automatic script, that runs over the entire repository, is clearly > > the way to go here. I prototyped such a thing myself, but wasn't > > confident enough in my ability to update the .xml files to point to > > foo/blah/image.png instead of foo/blah/image.rgb - it needs some work > > by someone more familiar with regexps than I claim to be :) > > I don't aprove anyone to update my models to use png instead of rgb > since it I still use an old version af ac3d that only supports rgb files. > > I see little use for changing to png anyhow since it only saves some > bytes when the base package is extracted but it adds loading speed since > the file type is really simple (and set up to be used for textures). > The ziped, gzipped or arj'ed base package will not be much smaller > either way. > > Erik
Yes you are right, individuals can do it ( translation to png) with their own models, ONLY. As long as we are using ac3d, rgb remains necessary. I know that their is a version of ac3d which support png, however we have to pay (again) for it. Cheers -- Gérard http://pagesperso-orange.fr/GRTux/ J'ai décidé d'être heureux parce que c'est bon pour la santé. Voltaire ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
