Thanks Beatrix, that looks very helpful

2012/2/12 Beatrix Krümmer-Frau <birik...@hotmail.de>

> Hi Ben,
>
> I am not 100% sure what exactly you wnat to achieve.
> But why don't you use 2 jpg's with one as a masc where transperency is
> black.
> You can generate an alpha channel form this.
> Check this: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/**flash/articles/optimize_**
> transparent_images.html<http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/optimize_transparent_images.html>
>
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>
> Am 11.02.2012 06:43, schrieb Ben Sand:
>
>> I'm working on a game with some large images (up to 4k x 4k)
>>
>> The pngs with alpha channels come out at 5-10MB each and we need to put a
>> few large ones and many smaller ones in the game.
>>
>> jpeg-xr would do the job, but we are targetting Flash 10
>>
>> This blog shows how to combine a jpeg with a png alpha mask to get file
>> sizes down, but it is for HTML5, although they were able to use a flash
>> converter successfully:
>> http://blog.jackadam.net/2010/**alpha-jpegs/<http://blog.jackadam.net/2010/alpha-jpegs/>
>>
>> Is a PNG transparency mask the best way to go, or are there other options
>> to get the file size down?
>>
>> I've found one set of code here:
>> http://www.actionscript.org/**forums/showthread.php3?s=**
>> 9629c531325d52cdececd6ebf1f27a**61&t=215886&page=2<http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?s=9629c531325d52cdececd6ebf1f27a61&t=215886&page=2>
>> I thought I should check here before using it, as we're going to need to
>> do
>> a lot of these...
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ben
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