The title says it all. This is a BIG problem for me. I have several hundred screendumps, but I figured they can't be very big, right? Well, as they're targa files, they're 2.3-3.8MB a piece. My .vendetta directory is 2GB!!!!! Please, compress them into jpegs or jng's or SOMETHING. (Yes, I said jng,not png). Now I gotta delete all those screenshots... :(

2.3mb to 3.8mb? sorry that's too big. They're 1.37mb each, no more no less.
And jpgs look HORRIBLE if they're compressed under 200KB.
if you want to convert them, go ahead.

It's three bytes per pixel, Blaster, and it's only 1.37mb if you happen to have 800*600 pixels on your screen.

We aren't going to change the dump format. Sorry. It's not an important feature of the engine, and there is no one good format to use unless we included oversampling, resizing, and quality control settings for screen dumps, and that's work we aren't going to waste our time on, since Photoshop can do those things perfectly well.

My pc runs at a fairly high resolution, my dumps are 8.3 megs each.

So you hcae no right to be complaining about your dumps being 3.2 meg. ;)

Yeah, it was just annoying when I ran outta disk space and realized that the .vendetta folder was taking up 3/4 of my Home directory. :()

/me points at Rogue, laughs, and hides behind 260gb. of storage.

Just convert them to whatever you want. It's not like you take 300 shots in one session...

If you're on Windows, just convert them with ACDSee (or some Gimp/Photoshop if you want to resize) or if you are on a *nix, just use "convert" with the right parameters. (or again, just use Gimp)

I do take 80-90 shots in a session, though. THose 300 were my UNCONVERTED ones.

You also have to consider compression times. If you want your screenshots compressed into something like a PNG, it could freeze up the game for a good couple seconds. Bigger files means faster screenshots.

Yeah, but I'd sacrifice my 2 seconds. Besides, that's dependent on CPU and OS and all that.

roguelazer: i think you play vendetta on linux (as i). to keep your screenshots in jpg format, `convert` + `cron` + `nice` programs are a good choice. a small script can convert/catalogize/move those files into other directories while converting tga-s to jpg. (i have 5.7megs dumps. :) )

Yeah, but I hate writing scripts. I try to write the conditionals like C/C++/Java conditionals and the whole thing goes poof.

Can I have ur script?

:)