"Eric"
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Posted on:
Jan 27, 2003, 11:42 PM
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Re: Newbie FS2004 questions...
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> Why do you want to make them smaller? Is it to get a performance gain?
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> If so, you will probably negate that gain because the .bmp's will then
have
> to be decompressed within FS9, probably slowing things down more than if
you
> just left things alone. :)
I missed this reply somehow, otherwise I would have responded earlier.
Yeah, I realize that FS9 decompresses the images in order to use them from
within the sim.
I've since learned that it is, as I speculated, a compression technique used
on the .bmp sprites that doesn't allow them to be viewable from outside FS9.
I found the tools necessary to decompress them so I could edit them with a
graphic editor.
What I was looking to do when I posted was to first get the .bmp into a
format readable by a graphic editor, then using the editor work with the
images as much as possible to reduce their size as much as possible
(sacrificing resolution), then get them back into the original format for
use with FS9. I was successful with doing this the Delta aircraft I wanted
to make more efficient. Reducing the resolution and the chrome effects
improved it dramatically while within FS9. I'm getting a much higher frame
rate with it now and no lag waiting for the aircraft texture to load on the
model. It doesn't, obviously, look as great as it did before but its still
not bad at all.
Thanks...
-Eric
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