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AGS Support => Advanced Technical Forum => Topic started by: Alex Lowes on Thu 02/10/2003 00:08:33

Title: JPG support
Post by: Alex Lowes on Thu 02/10/2003 00:08:33
Will AGS support JPG format ?I beed it for high resolution )low memory)compressed pics.made for my Police ques 4 style game.
Title: Re:JPG support
Post by: Scummbuddy on Thu 02/10/2003 00:43:57
make them in bitmap, and then import it.  great picture and its all compressed the same.
Title: Re:JPG support
Post by: Gilbert on Thu 02/10/2003 04:13:45
AGS previously supported the import of JPEG images, but because of the lossy compression scheme in JPEG, and you WON'T get your game file sizes reduced using it (since every bg imported were converted to some identical internal format), so it's never recommended to use.
Title: Re:JPG support
Post by: Alex Lowes on Thu 02/10/2003 11:41:50
SO how can I make a somwhat a good looking pic to have a very small size file cause bmp's are not so comppresed ??? like jpg

anyhow isn't it simple enogh to reenter the jpg support back into AGS pumaman? ;D
Title: Re:JPG support
Post by: Ishmael on Thu 02/10/2003 11:48:48
Quoteyou WON'T get your game file sizes reduced using it (since every bg imported were converted to some identical internal format)

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