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Hobbes

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Hey all,

 

A section for UFO2000 has been created on the X-COM Wiki, UFOPaedia. The link for it is here.

 

Right now there isn't much content added but that will change soon. The objective is to compilate all information regarding the game there, being a guide for newbies, weaponset information, strategies, modding and all related to UFO2000.

 

If you wish to add new pages or to edit the existing ones feel free to do so. :)

 

See ya

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I have been waiting for this since the old wiki is lost. One bad thing though, whose idea was to use jpg for pixel art images? png suits them better: smaller file size and better quality.

 

Errr....my idea. I didn't knew about the difference, I'll switch to .png from now on.

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Photoshop has good Jpeg compression. on a scale, you choose how much degredation you want in the image, high = hardly any loss of image data to the naked eye while low = MSpaint jpeg compression quality (Yuck!)

 

as Kratos said, larger images are huge in png format while they can be rather small in jpeg

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jpeg is lossy and good for photos, but for pixel art it sucks.

png has lossless compression that is why it is big in some cases, better than bmp or gif anyway. Sometimes you can reduce png filesize by a fair amount using programms like png crush.

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not really that far off topic imo - the size of images is very important in the running of the wiki chunk. Say the bit on weapons - there is _alot_ of images going in and if they remain as BMP's it gonna take years to load and thats not efficient use of bandwidth and such. In the lower resolution images PNG might be the best bet but when an image is that small it might be just as easy to use highly compressed Jpegs instead. Edited by Sporb
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not really - the size of images is important in the running of the wiki chunk. Say the bit on weapons - there is _alot_ of images going in and if they remain as BMP's it gonna take years to load. In the lower resolution images PNG might be the best bet but when an image is that small it might be just as easy to use highly compressed Jpegs instead.

 

Jpeg is lossy compression, that means you will loose quality no matter what.

Jpeg is good for photographs.

 

Gif is the only one that can be animated, it can only be in 256 colors so it suits the simple graphics better. Gif can also have simple 1bit transparency.

 

Png is lossless so it results in larger file sizes. It can however compress in either 256 colors like gif or millions like jpeg, it also supports smooth 8bit transparency. However Internet explorer doesn't support that, but IMHO screw broken browsers.

 

The best for the pixel art is Gif, since those are small and won't loose much quality if you reduce em to 256 colors (custom palette) also, the 1 bit transparency doesn't do much when the edges are rough such as in pixel art.

 

Finally, don't even think of compressing with MsPaint.

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not really that far off topic imo - the size of images is very important in the running of the wiki chunk.

 

This thread is meant merely to announce that a wiki exists. Discussion regarding the best type of file to use in pictures would be more adequate if done on the Talk:UFO2000 - UFOPaedia page since it matters more to users of the wiki, not of this forum.

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