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Re: How big is your VEC dir?
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Tue, 25 May 1999 04:09:59 GMT
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On Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:40:41 GMT, Sproaticus <jsproat@geocities.com> wrote:
> ...Mine is 79 Mb in size after 9902 parts update. For speed, I don't want
> to go GIF or JPEG, and I'm not too crazy about reducing the rendering size
> for the VEC.
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> Question #1: Will Image Magick convert 24-bit BMPs to 8-bit?
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> Question #2: Has anyone converted their VEC dir to GIF or JPEG, and how
> much slower is it really?
Just to provide a more-or-less final answer to this question, Image Magick
includes mogrify.exe, which is designed to do mass file conversions. Using
mogrify, I converted all the VEC images to BMP-RLE format. Which took the
VEC down to 6.5MB. That's with shading turned on in LDLite, 80% oblique
view on most parts, baseplates at 45% above view.
The command line is:
cd \ldraw\vec
[IM path]\mogrify -colors 256 -compress RunlengthEncoded *.bmp
Then wait several minutes. If you're really bored, monitor progress with
Explorer (watch the directory size go down).
This has a double-plus good impact on the load time of the VEC, especially
of the Baseplates category.
Steve
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| (...) I've made LDLite save 8 bit bitmaps and sent the changes to Paul about 1 month ago but he didn't answer me. I wonder if he didn't get the message or if he just didn't like what I've done. :) Leonardo (25 years ago, 25-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| ...Mine is 79 Mb in size after 9902 parts update. For speed, I don't want to go GIF or JPEG, and I'm not too crazy about reducing the rendering size for the VEC. Question #1: Will Image Magick convert 24-bit BMPs to 8-bit? Question #2: Has anyone (...) (26 years ago, 1-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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