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Re: Is it appropriate to post large models here?
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lugnet.cad
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Wed, 15 Nov 2000 18:10:58 GMT
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Hello,
> That makes me think: is there a BMP2DAT program that uses the • direct-color
> syntax of LDLite & MLCad? Having RGB colors available would allow
> model-makers to use lower resolution, which would reduce file size.
Hm... from my point of view that doesn't make a real difference. (As you
probably know ;)
I wrote BMP-2-LDraw32).
In some cases you wil get even a bigger file than before because the number
from 1-511 (about 300 colors / maximum use of 3 chars at per color) dont use
as much diskspace as RGB values . Even when RGB values are written
hexadecimal they use up to 6 chars, when written decimal up to 8.
Reducing the size of an bitmaps is mostly not a problem of resolution but
pretty much a post-work by hand ( you won't see any anti-alias at lego's
originals ;) ). All bitmaps I made for pieces are hand-overworked by me
before converting to DAT.
--
Greetings,
Carsten Schmitz
http://www.m8laune.de - home of BMP-2-LDraw32
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| (...) Hmm. (a) I wasn't very clear and (b) I didn't think about compressing DAT size by combining adjacent pixels with the same color. Anyway, I was thinking that with more colors, the source BMP could be smaller (in pixel x pixel dimensions) and (...) (24 years ago, 15-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Is it appropriate to post large models here?
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| (...) Yikes! That is big. From what Todd said before, a one-time posting of a large DAT would be alright. From his POV. That makes me think: is there a BMP2DAT program that uses the direct-color syntax of LDLite & MLCad? Having RGB colors available (...) (24 years ago, 15-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad)
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