New Illuminati & Andorian Ships

Atrocities · #1 September 13th, 2003, 04:04 PM

I am well on my way to finishing the Andorian and Illuminati ships sets.

The images are PNG not BMP so they might not looks as good on the web page as they do in actual.

The Illuminati Ships

Battle Cruiser

Battleship

Dreadnought

The Andorian Ships

Battle Cruiser

Battleship

Dreadnought

Both sets will include some Neo Standard Images when they are done.

[ September 13, 2003, 15:19: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

Fyron · #2 September 13th, 2003, 06:10 PM

Why would they not look as good? The whole point of PNG is lossless compression so that they look EXACTLY the same as BMP.

Captain Kwok · #3 September 13th, 2003, 08:17 PM

Hmm, they kind of look the same.

Atrocities · #4 September 13th, 2003, 11:36 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Captain Kwok:
Hmm, they kind of look the same.

They are loosely based on a simular ship design. But if you look you will see that they are differant in many regards.

And the Andorians and Illuminati current sets are exactly the same.

The new sets have ONE simular ship. The rest are all distinguished by their details.

One is Star Trek based the other is not. So having simular looking ships is perfectly ok. At least they are not exactly the same as the current sets are.

Atrocities · #5 September 13th, 2003, 11:39 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Why would they not look as good? The whole point of PNG is lossless compression so that they look EXACTLY the same as BMP.

I uploaded a PNG image to your image site and it looks all washed out and blended together. Really bad looking.

I am using one of the best imaging programs on the market to convert them from BMP to PNG and on my computer they look idential, however after uploading them they all look like bleed together pixalated JPEG's.

narf poit chez BOOM · #6 September 14th, 2003, 04:33 AM

webcomic artist's have complained that .png loses detail.

[ September 14, 2003, 03:36: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

Fyron · #7 September 14th, 2003, 04:44 AM

.png only loses detail if you do not know how to use an image converter. MS Paint in XP can save PNGs with 0 loss of color info/detail (as that is the only way it can save them).

Atrocities · #8 September 14th, 2003, 06:27 AM

Win some loose some.

Jack Simth · #9 September 14th, 2003, 07:06 AM

Could it be that some browsers don't display .png's well, rather than a flaw in the format itself?

Fyron · #10 September 14th, 2003, 10:56 AM

I don't think that is it, unless he is using some wacky browser. Both IE and Netscape display them fine (unless there is transparency; IE can not display PNG transparency layers correctly and instead makes those pixels grey). But, I know AT uses Netscape normally, so there must be some other explanation.