bitmap skins, mask or break apart?

tacroy · Post by **tacroy** » 16 Oct 2008, 15:26

Anyone have any context as to if OS will run better with masked images in tiles or if they are broke apart and "extra" bits erased?

Post by **Bax** » 17 Oct 2008, 07:36

We don't have specific tests about this, but I think that masking would add an overhead affecting performances. Also, under the skins creation point of view, masking bitmaps is much more time consuming than removing the transparent pixels.

tacroy · Post by **tacroy** » 20 Oct 2008, 13:27

So are you just erasing the pixels? or does flash have some way to just selecting all the transparent pixels and deleting them (like a magic wand)

Thanks!

Post by **Bax** » 20 Oct 2008, 13:47

Check this link (REMOVING THE BACKGROUND OF IMPORTED BITMAPS paragraph): http://www.adobe.com/go/tn_12804

tacroy · Post by **tacroy** » 20 Oct 2008, 16:54

Great thank you. If I notice a efficiency difference between masks / removing background I'll be sure to post here.