Name: Anonymous 2007-01-08 23:52
I've been going through some image format possibilities for my game and I can't decide on a commonly-used image format for my game's data.
Targa is a tried-and-true format but it has a lot of different standard-supported options of storing pixels such that I'd have to write like 8 or 9 functions to load and translate all the different ways a .TGA file's image can be stored. Not fun.
.jpg and .png are a pain in the butt, even more mathematically annoying with their use of compression and all. .gif is just not an option.
Buh buh buh... are there no super-simple image formats out there whose header specifications just look like this:
int width
int height
and then an array of guaranteed 24-bit {a,r,g,b} quadruples
Targa is a tried-and-true format but it has a lot of different standard-supported options of storing pixels such that I'd have to write like 8 or 9 functions to load and translate all the different ways a .TGA file's image can be stored. Not fun.
.jpg and .png are a pain in the butt, even more mathematically annoying with their use of compression and all. .gif is just not an option.
Buh buh buh... are there no super-simple image formats out there whose header specifications just look like this:
int width
int height
and then an array of guaranteed 24-bit {a,r,g,b} quadruples