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#1 2013-02-19 17:19:10
Does pixelate effect make a scratch project run faster?
Does pixelate effect make a scratch project run faster?
For example, I made a game with a lot of heavy sprites(the costumes weight a lot of KB) and it runs slowly in flash.If i lower the graphics, makeing every sprite with pixelate effect=50 , would that make the game run faster?
thank you, thion
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#2 2013-02-19 17:57:11
Re: Does pixelate effect make a scratch project run faster?
It's kind of counterintuitive, but it will actually make your project slower. Every time the sprite changes Scratch has to apply the pixellate filter to the image again; even though the end result looks lower quality, it takes time to process the sprite's costume and generate a more "pixel-y" one.
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#3 2013-02-19 18:07:34
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Re: Does pixelate effect make a scratch project run faster?
It's the same reason why Windows mostly uses .bmp files, because although they are a larger size, the fact that they are nearly uncompressed means they are a lot quicker to process and render.
Have you tried using turbo mode to make your project run faster?
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#4 2013-02-19 18:26:01
Re: Does pixelate effect make a scratch project run faster?
nXIII wrote:
It's kind of counterintuitive, but it will actually make your project slower. Every time the sprite changes Scratch has to apply the pixellate filter to the image again; even though the end result looks lower quality, it takes time to process the sprite's costume and generate a more "pixel-y" one.
ok, 
thank you
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#5 2013-02-26 14:26:24
Re: Does pixelate effect make a scratch project run faster?
What you can do is to compress the images, sounds, etc. to make them lower quality
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