.mng

[Acererak]

What's with the mng format? I can't open it in any application...

[LordZen]

.mng is just a variation of .png which allows you to animated the image.

Heh, if you are having trouble with it than just stick with gifs. MNG format is auto fail for any submitted heads/shields/swords anyways, so its kinda inconvienient.

[Acererak]

i know what mng grapgics are, just, the gif2mng program included with the dev tools converts animations into a strange mng format that can only be read by graal...

[LordZen]

then only import single framed gifs to convert ((it will come out as png))

[aylad]

[rant]
The PNG and MNG image formats were developed to replace GIF. There is every reason why they -should- replace GIF:

• No copyrights
  Higher color quality
  Alpha channel support
  (for MNG) better animation support
  Smaller file size

However, Microsoft and other leading software companies have been remarkable reluctant to support PNG or MNG. Currently I don't believe -any- MS product supports MNG, including the "Image Previewer" and Internet Explorer. IE does support PNG, but only handles full transparency for one color (rather than full alpha channel support), and (I believe) no transparency at all for graphics with color depth of higher than 8-bit (256 color). Thus the PNG format is stuck with many of the same limitations of the GIF format.

Netscape's PNG support is even worse, or at least it is with the last version of Navigator that I own. Of course, I never update Navigator because it's an inferior browser anyway.

Write Microsoft and tell them to add support for PNG's alpha channel capabilities and MNGs!!!
[/rant]

Whew..... felt good.

[Acererak]

actually, there are programs, not microsoft, that do support mngs, thease programs do not support the same mngs you get from gif2mng, i want to use animations, but i cannot vew them in mng format unless i convert them with another program other than gif2mng, I use a program called slow vew as my image vewer, it supports mng files but it reads the ones gif2mng produces as corrupt

[aylad]

Originally posted by Acererak
actually, there are programs, not microsoft, that do support mngs, thease programs do not support the same mngs you get from gif2mng, i want to use animations, but i cannot vew them in mng format unless i convert them with another program other than gif2mng, I use a program called slow vew as my image vewer, it supports mng files but it reads the ones gif2mng produces as corrupt

I never said "no one" supported mngs, I happen to have a mng editor. But MS, which is supposed to be the leading software company, won't support them.

And I would appreciate it if you would remove the bonsai kitten from your sig, I consider it a violation of "mutilation or other disturbing images" as found in the forum rules. No offense, that's just not something I want to see or think about.

[Spark910]

Real my post in this section about MNGS there is a URL to a site with loads of MNG Supported progs.