Re: [tsc-devel] Re: Do we use sprite sheets at all?

Quintus | Wed, 20 Jan 2016 09:02:30 UTC

Bugsbane <…r@f…> writes:

> Post via forum by Bugsbane <…s@x…>:
> I'd just like to add to this that using sprite sheets raises the level
> of knowledge required by new contributing artists.

This is an interesting aspect I have not considered before. Given the
only minor performance improvements (see Luiji’s posting) I think the
usability for new users plays an important role we should not neglect.

> they're not going to know things like
> the acceptable document and sprite dimensions.

We already have some style and size restrictions on the graphics (like
the power-of-two boundaries), so I guess adding yet another one will not
make that much of a difference.

Btw. did you ever get around to completing the TSC styleguide?

> it also raises the computing horsepower needed as you need to be
> opening a file with all of the animation frames at once rather than
> just one.

Yeah. I have yet to experience this problem with TSC graphics, but I
have seen Inkscape eating quite a bit of my RAM and computing power at
other places, notably when editing OpenStreetMap maps rendered by Mapnik
to SVG. It makes working with the file really unpleasant and requires a
lot of patience when you can watch Inkscape rendering the SVG piece by
piece.

In case anyone is interested, I have a 4-core machine with 12 GiB of
RAM.

Vale,
Quintus

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