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Excellent, anything would have to be better than doing all of the thousands of individual frames by hand. I can't even imagine how long that would take to complete.I wrote a couple of scripts for Gimp which somewhat automates the process of converting the TC2M sprites into the new packed version.
Hi Stu - I actually render them at 512 x 512 png. Then I resize and conver them to tga's and dds. The tga's I use to adjust brightness etc and then copy the alpha channel from the dds. I can't figure how to convert png to tga with the channel! Then I convert the the tga back to dds. Seems to stop some of the blocky and messy dds this way but is a bit labour intensive.However, when I convert them to DDS format the quality goes completely and the sprites become very pixellated and blocky.
Is this a problem with the way in which I originally rendered them or a problem with the conversion to DDS do you think?
I use Poser and I rendered the sprite animations in 128 x 128 pixel images as png files using high standard render settings.
To convert to DDS I used a freeware program. I tried a couple of others but the results were the same...
Any help or thoughts would be appreciated,
thanks,
Stu