posted 10-18- 12:15 AM               

I visited Airbudda's site the other day and had a look at his article on painting ( http://thehangar.dogfighter.com/Paint.htm ).

Under the heading 'Color Depth and Palette issues' he talks about the use of 16 bit and 8 bit colours....here's an extract:

"Another factor that a non-professional skin artist won't normally run into is the fact that the greater the color depth of a texture or skin the more memory it takes up....

...As well as an image of 256x256 pixels at 8 bit color depth will take up less memory than an image of the same 256x256 pixels but at 16 bit color depth."

I know given his background, he's refering to painting in CFS & EAW etc, but does this apply to FSDOE equaly as well ?

Now, I'm obviously not an expert on this (duh ) but I think my skins are at 16 bit - Is FSDOE optimised for 16 bit ?

Why ask these questions...well after reading the article I thought - sh..t - maybe I'm not doing the right thing with my skins....and worse I could be stuffing people around too

I'd apprecitate some comments...

Cheers,

posted 10-18- 01:27 AM               

I think SDOE skins are 16 bit or higher, I think thats one of the GOOD things about SDOE. And that, thats why the colors look so good in the game.

Thats just my rambling though, Someone else will know for sure.

posted 10-18- 01:42 AM               

I asked basically the same question here just a few days ago. From the answers I got I assumed that the filesize of the textures didnīt seem to matter (which I think is strange, but what do I know...). You can read for yourself here: http://www.fightersquadron.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001193.html

posted 10-18- 04:22 AM               

Well I guess if we are at 16bit or higher then there's no problem

Actualy, I did read that post a few days ago ..... at the time I thought he meant just the file type...but reading it again I would imagine it applies equaly as well to colour depth.

Thanks again guys.

Cheers,

AGAS 5