[Baron Munchausen]

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Originally posted by geoschmo:

Originally posted by prader:
Would not having 3d views be a serious problem or just an aesthetic one? I can deal with not seeing 3d views of the ships but it wouldn't do much good if the game crashes.

Thanks everyone for your responses so far. You've been very helpful.

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It's purely aesthetic. You could have a top down 36x36 bitmap for the mini images used in movement and combat, and the same top-down image blown up to a 128x128 bitmap and the game would not care. It would not give you errors unless the images were named incorrectly.

Geoschmo

Actually, you could have a picture of Krusty the Clown for the large image and it wouldn't cause an error. One of the ways to dramatically reduce the disk space usage by the game would be to replace all the 'portrait' images with some sort of simple, abstract emblem. Or even a blank space. You'd just see the information without the fancy image.