GTA2 Font Topic - TXT2GTA2 (Version 3 Released!)

[Cuban-Pete]

Add filesize to bench "page" please.

//or dont you see zip difference in file size and only in used bandwidth?
// is it like gzip?

[T.M.]

Edit: image test:


the zip is used for text parameter to compress the URL smaller.

I added the filesize now:
http://epicgta2.omnitude.net/gta2text/g ... 3D&z&debug

Edit: added better compression (previous compressed text parameter images may not work)

[T.M.]

playing with headers now; added proper filename when you save image to disk (firefox didnt recognize it as a png file, was annoying to type .png myself there!) its using ymdHis date format so its easy to sort your pictures you saved and makes them all unique names.

[Cuban-Pete]

Hey that is a good idea. I don't know what exactly you did, but when I now right click on the image in firefox to view it, I get a dialog if I want to download it. This way we only need to add a small "download" button and link to the image and presto!

[T.M.]

WAIT... when you click that image link, it asks to download? im not sure if thats a good idea.

lets test:
http://epicgta2.omnitude.net/gta2text/g ... F7fwM%3D&z

Edit: crap, you are right... i dont like it lol

Edit2: fixed it, wont ask for DL anymore, but i could add it as an option on the page? still, i think its pretty useless since you can always right click on any image and press "save image as".

edit3: wtf is wrong with firefox font? WAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWA
looks like:

wtffont.png (318 Bytes) Viewed 29427 times

[Cuban-Pete]

Render text smooth turned off? Restart?

[T.M.]

i dont think i changed my settings, but i hate smooth text anyways, im not gonna enable it lol. (makes me feel like something is wrong with my eyes when everything is blurred).

I added timestamps for the images now; its fully automated: if i modify the gta2text.php, then the timestamp will change and thus all images must be reloaded again.

[Cuban-Pete]

Wow, sound like a good adjustment.

6 dec 2011 17:24:20

[T.M.]

how did you get that time btw?

[Cuban-Pete]

not sure if it is correct, but just rmb on image and select image-info -> general info -> altered on: ...

//firefox

[T.M.]

wtfux? i can only see my current clock time there lol.

ps: i think the changing filename makes the cache not work properly, testing if it does.

Edit: yup, i was right. the timestamp on the image filename messed up cache; when i closed firefox, it didnt load the images from cache anymore! but now i use a hash of the parameters, so the filename never changes for same image. better for saving too; you know if you already saved the file if you try to save it twice.

[T.M.]

added JPG and GIF support!

PNG:
17580 bytes
1720 bytes
JPG:
14305 bytes
11271 bytes
GIF:
14281 bytes
1580 bytes

just add "&gif" or etc in end of the image url

NOTE: jpg doesnt support transparency

edit: seems like you were correct, gif is smaller :O

[Cuban-Pete]

jpg is bull. it is for photo's not for these graphics.

gif is faster in loading and smaller filesize, but it is minimal.

compare: http://epicgta2.omnitude.net/gta2text/g ... 3D&z&debug

to: http://epicgta2.omnitude.net/gta2text/g ... &debug&gif

//did you do palette trick with png already?

[T.M.]

seems like gif doesnt support transparency either

edit: wow, 18ms for GIF and 55ms for PNG

edit: i havent done palette tricks yet.,

[T.M.]

Create PNG: 55.4 ms
Create JPG: 23.7 ms
Create GIF: 18.3 ms

JPG is pretty fast too

trying to get GIF transparency working now...

edit: i think i can make PNG smaller in filesize than GIF if i use 256 palette for the PNG image too.

edit: i tested png gave 1262 bytes with 16 colors, and gif 1580 bytes with 256 colors, weirdly enough: PNG with 256 color made smaller PNG than with 16 color PNG was, only 1133 bytes

[T.M.]

can you make me 256 colored transparent PNG for the file "gta2font_normal_c0.png" ? i'll test if it boosts the rendering speed when theres less colors to draw.

[Cuban-Pete]

I get this:

[Cuban-Pete]

where is the shiny

[T.M.]

sc folder is shiny. thanks for the PNG btw. atm im trying to make that damn gif transparent argh... so hard.

edit: your png isnt 256 colored? i see lot less colors. (256 colored PNG should be smaller in filesize) also, can you make the bg to white+transparent?

[Cuban-Pete]

3.4 KB vs 5.32 KB

I did a use index colours in GIMP before saving.

now also added save trans background color, but I have no idea which color it is... gimp does not tell me