[http://sourceforge.net/p/ufoai/patches/533 Item 533] imported from sourceforge.net tracker on 2013-01-28 20:43:43

During my work with the models I realized that the skins have very low resolutions...
We have higher resolution skins for some of the models in our data_source.
We could easily upgrade some of the skins & quadruple their resolution.
IMHO we should do that.
To stay reasonable we should choose 256x256 pixel for the heads & 512x512 pixel for the bodies whenever this is easily possible (we only have a few of the high resolution source textures available)...
This would be a first step of improvement on this field. Other steps should follow soon afterwards...
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====== mcr2010 (2010-04-29 14:34:39) ======

Too high resolution, but nice & really sharp ;)
====== mcr2010 (2010-04-29 14:40:01) ======

Male Body Skin 512x512
====== mcr2010 (2010-05-14 19:38:07) ======

I started with this & hope that it is okay to upgrade resolutions for textures, where it is possible to do this in a relatively easy way (by using the originals, which are available from data_source & have high quality)...
I even chose 512x512 for the heads as this resolution will look very nice even @ high zoom (see attached screenshot)...
But I will use jpgs here, because the originals already had artifacts & were already compressed using jpg, so...
I am unsure what to do with gfx that are encoded using jpg but have much higher resolution than we need in-game - those could be saved as png also ?!
What do you think ?
====== tlh2000 (2010-05-14 20:18:52) ======

as i've said - try to not use jpeg wherever possible
====== mcr2010 (2010-05-14 20:26:42) ======

Roger.
Just using jpgs when only jpgs in target resolution (not higher) are available, because reconverting them to png will just increase filesize but not quality then...
====== mcr2010 (2010-05-15 11:48:32) ======

Will close this as everything is clear regarding this issue.