04-01-2014, 09:32 AM
Hello qualakon,
- well, you don't have to make your own program in order to work with graphics in general. There are several specialised software packages in the market.
- TDG deals specifically with the proprietary format of D/HF for which no alternative exists apart from internal proprietary tools.
- Palettised graphics are a very clever, fast and economical method to have multiple colour variations of the same animation via pallettes (*.PAL) and palette transformations (*.TRN).
- Nowadays it's all about millions of files that cater for every variation that needs to be drawn. That's why good old D/HF was nary a CD in size and D3 is some 15 GB (client-side only). We are talking about a factor of 30 or so in disk size which has in turn to be loaded into RAM and VRAM etc. etc.
Regards,
ArthuDent
- well, you don't have to make your own program in order to work with graphics in general. There are several specialised software packages in the market.
- TDG deals specifically with the proprietary format of D/HF for which no alternative exists apart from internal proprietary tools.
- Palettised graphics are a very clever, fast and economical method to have multiple colour variations of the same animation via pallettes (*.PAL) and palette transformations (*.TRN).
- Nowadays it's all about millions of files that cater for every variation that needs to be drawn. That's why good old D/HF was nary a CD in size and D3 is some 15 GB (client-side only). We are talking about a factor of 30 or so in disk size which has in turn to be loaded into RAM and VRAM etc. etc.
Regards,
ArthuDent