View size limits

[robbo007]

Hi everyone,
What type of size restrictions / limits does a view have? I'm seeing some strange things happening. I have a 320x45 loop in my view that has 4 cels of animation. The total size of the view with other loops is: 50921 bytes. Its displayed like this. (See attachment)

If I cut cel into two and create another loop with the second half it works fine.

Regards,

[Kawa]

Resource size limit is some multiple of two I think. I forget the specifics.

I'd say the problem might be the dithering pattern in your cel. Unless 16-color cels are encoded in four bits per pixel (thus two pixels per byte), dithering patterns will not compress well with run-length encoding. But what do I know? I'm more about 256-color SCI.

[robbo007]

ok thanks. As always I have worked out a work around. But I was curious to know what was going on so I can avoid creating more work for myself in the future. Al Lowe was right when he said.; "No one know how much work really go into these games..."

Yeah if I ever finish this debacle I might have to go to the next level, 256 colours hahah.. Shit I would have to buy a VGA card for my IBM.... haha.

BTW: Did SCI1 make it to Amiga and Atari ST?

[lskovlun]

We had the SQ4 box sitting on a counter for a few weeḱs until we had the 486 to make it work. I had seen SQ4 on a friend's machine. It was very impressive at the time.

[troflip]

Resource size limit is some multiple of two I think. I forget the specifics.

I'd say the problem might be the dithering pattern in your cel. Unless 16-color cels are encoded in four bits per pixel (thus two pixels per byte), dithering patterns will not compress well with run-length encoding. But what do I know? I'm more about 256-color SCI.

You are correct - dithering will totally break compression in SCI0 views.