Using MOO2 ships for shipsets

[geoschmo]

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Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
One of the ways to dramatically reduce the disk space usage by the game would be to replace all the 'portrait' images with some sort of simple, abstract emblem. Or even a blank space. You'd just see the information without the fancy image.

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In fact we did something similer on the PBW server to conserve space, since it doesn't matter what the pictures look like on the server.

What I learned though is that bitmap files of the same dimensions have exactly the same file size regardless of what the image looks like. The only way to reduce the file size is to actually make them smaller, or changing them to black and white in the attributes. Instead of 128x128, make them a 1x1 bitmap. However, you have to be careful with this because some of the game images (not ship pics) have to be the same size or you get errors. However, you can still save space with them by making them black and white.

Geoschmo