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highkoo

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Differences between SDL and Legacy modes?
« on: May 11, 2011, 10:50:18 pm »
Legacy seems to work better with my machine, showing animations properly.

Does legacy work with all the regular texture packs and mods?
what are the differnces between the 2?
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Re: Differences between SDL and Legacy modes?
« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2011, 11:28:58 pm »
SDL has dynamic resizing, it's less resource intensive... there's more that I don't remember off the top of my head, but it's mostly that sort of thing and doesn't effect texture packs or mods.
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Re: Differences between SDL and Legacy modes?
« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2011, 11:36:03 pm »
Quote from: Cruxador on May 11, 2011, 11:28:58 pm
SDL has dynamic resizing, it's less resource intensive... there's more that I don't remember off the top of my head, but it's mostly that sort of thing and doesn't effect texture packs or mods.

Awesome thank you :)

Would you know how to use Legacy with Deons Genisis mod?
I can only find a prepacked version that must be SDL as it doesnt show the animations on my machine
« Last Edit: May 11, 2011, 11:37:37 pm by highkoo »
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highkoo

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Re: Differences between SDL and Legacy modes?
« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2011, 11:57:32 pm »
Legacy DF is not working properly with Texture packs or mods

++EDIT++

Mods work, its the texture packs that dont as legacy only supports BMP.
Easy way to convert?
« Last Edit: May 12, 2011, 12:53:56 am by highkoo »
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Re: Differences between SDL and Legacy modes?
« Reply #4 on: May 12, 2011, 02:22:25 am »
If the texture pack just uses a pink (technically magenta) background, just resave it as .bmp.
If it uses an actually transparent background, you might get away with pasting it over a magenta background and saving as bmp, if it doesn' use alpha-blending.
If it uses alpha-blending, no.
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Re: Differences between SDL and Legacy modes?
« Reply #5 on: May 12, 2011, 02:57:04 am »
Quote from: Thief^ on May 12, 2011, 02:22:25 am
If the texture pack just uses a pink (technically magenta) background, just resave it as .bmp.
If it uses an actually transparent background, you might get away with pasting it over a magenta background and saving as bmp, if it doesn' use alpha-blending.
If it uses alpha-blending, no.

Ok thank you for the info
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