Ironworks Gaming Forum - View Single Post

Tarlanon · 10-31-2006, 06:44 PM

So what are we talking here? Everyone working on any existing designs are going to have to go back and rework all their art? What will this change do to the existing designs that are out there?

And as far as resizing arts goes....any image editor worth it's salt has a decent resampling routine to alter overall picture sizes without much need to do anything else to the image. True going from very small picture resolutions(like 320x200) to very large picture resolutions(like 1280x1024) will produce some pixelation obviously because there just isn't enough image data...But even the old Paint Shop Pro version 4.0 I sometimes use can convert 640x480-->1024x768 at a reasonable quality.

Oh, and since I am on rant...I've seen some of the discussions about tall wall formats, how it should be the new default, best thing since sliced bread, etc. etc. etc....Unless someone is going to build a utilitiy (like 3d wall tex) or write some scripts for the Gimp (or other open source tool)to help generate them, I would urge that it be set as an option, not the default.

Not everyone in the world can afford to(legally) purchase photoshop to generate these types of walls. So unless the few artists that can are willing to do requests...Make it something the general population can use.

/rant off

10-31-2006, 06:44 PM	#2
Tarlanon Manshoon Join Date: September 5, 2002 Location: Minnesota, USA Age: 50 Posts: 180	So what are we talking here? Everyone working on any existing designs are going to have to go back and rework all their art? What will this change do to the existing designs that are out there? And as far as resizing arts goes....any image editor worth it's salt has a decent resampling routine to alter overall picture sizes without much need to do anything else to the image. True going from very small picture resolutions(like 320x200) to very large picture resolutions(like 1280x1024) will produce some pixelation obviously because there just isn't enough image data...But even the old Paint Shop Pro version 4.0 I sometimes use can convert 640x480-->1024x768 at a reasonable quality. Oh, and since I am on rant...I've seen some of the discussions about tall wall formats, how it should be the new default, best thing since sliced bread, etc. etc. etc....Unless someone is going to build a utilitiy (like 3d wall tex) or write some scripts for the Gimp (or other open source tool)to help generate them, I would urge that it be set as an option, not the default. Not everyone in the world can afford to(legally) purchase photoshop to generate these types of walls. So unless the few artists that can are willing to do requests...Make it something the general population can use. /rant off __________________ :knightsmile: