[TUT] Reducing PNG Filesize in Slade 3 (eat it xwe)
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2016 4:52 pm
Hello my name is bob and today I'm going to tell you about Reducing PNG Filesize in Slade 3. This tutorial will be fast and not really furious, more helpful instead, so let's go.
Step: 1: Download these 3 programs
You need DeflOpt.exe, pngcrush.exe, and pngout.exe. If my link died, google for these 3.
Step 2: Put them somewhere you can remember.
Step 3: Open slade and go to EDIT. Click on preferences.
Step 4: Open the GRAPHICS tab and click on PNGS. Give slade the location of the 3 programs you just downloaded.
Step 5: Get a png (paletted or truecolor both work, but read the notes below), and open the context menu (mouse2), go to GRAPHIC, and click on OPTIMIZE PNG.
Step 6: Slade has to run 3 programs on this little PNG, so doing a whole folder can take some time. It's worth the filesize savings though.
Step 7:
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Step 8: PROFIT!
Misc. Notes:
-You can easily save MEGABYTES on wad filesize by optimizing sprites,graphics,and textures like this. Pictures don't compress in the zip format nearly as well as music and maps do.
-Sometimes big truecolor pngs get screwed up with a white background replacing the transparency. I haven't found a workaround, so these cannot be compressed.
Step: 1: Download these 3 programs
You need DeflOpt.exe, pngcrush.exe, and pngout.exe. If my link died, google for these 3.
Step 2: Put them somewhere you can remember.
Step 3: Open slade and go to EDIT. Click on preferences.
Step 4: Open the GRAPHICS tab and click on PNGS. Give slade the location of the 3 programs you just downloaded.
Step 5: Get a png (paletted or truecolor both work, but read the notes below), and open the context menu (mouse2), go to GRAPHIC, and click on OPTIMIZE PNG.
Step 6: Slade has to run 3 programs on this little PNG, so doing a whole folder can take some time. It's worth the filesize savings though.
Step 7:
???Step 8: PROFIT!
Misc. Notes:
-You can easily save MEGABYTES on wad filesize by optimizing sprites,graphics,and textures like this. Pictures don't compress in the zip format nearly as well as music and maps do.
-Sometimes big truecolor pngs get screwed up with a white background replacing the transparency. I haven't found a workaround, so these cannot be compressed.
John Zombie wrote:That's because zandronum(zdoom?)'s PNG implementation is shitty and doesn't support tRNS chunks in truecolor images for whatever reason, excluding pngout should be enough as a workaround(the optimization won't be as effective, but better than nothing I guess)