Monday, October 15, 2007

Re: First Thing's First

In regards to the comment I received on the test post I did:

This is a .gif exported from WoWModelViewer, which allows one to view the 3D models from World of Warcraft installed on a computer (ie, one has to own the game to be able to use the stand-alone free program created by fans). I'm pretty sure I messed around with its size in Adobe ImageReady CS. As far as I recall, I wanted to test Blogger's image display and so I chose a rather fussy format, the animated GIF.

There's not much else to it, except that the GIF format uses an indexed color mode that can only display 256 colors (including transparency) in any given frame. The newer PNG format is much better at displaying transparency and a wider variety of colors, but it can't show animation.

I really wish all games had such a large base of fans that include programmers capable of producing model viewers! Then I could have an animation of Alice bouncing her croquet ball off her mallet and onto her boot. Not that it's totally irrelevant to class or anything.

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