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Would it be possible to have the file size limit increased from 131 to 231, or even 300kb? It is trouble enough forcing us to work and crop our icons to 96x96 to even fit properly. This would give plenty of breathing room for reaction icon states to fit a broader spectrum of emotions a player might want to portray during their RP (beyond the MMO emoji things like the heart and whatnot).

EDIT: I realize saving them in another format increases the compression, but typically also at the expense of quality, which is UNACCEPTABRU. Marching bands allow up to 3MB for songs, so I don't think increasing the limit for faceicons would be that big of a deal.

According to this post it should already be like 3 MB, maybe. Ish. And I think that's if you have a Marching Band, which you just found I guess so nice edit to me and you person.

Before anyone goes "Oh, I can fit 15 states just fine," a Marching Band also increases the filesize for Faceicons to 3MB instead of 131kb, by Dev's own statement (It was unintentional, but harmless, so it remained unchanged) so you have over double what the rest of us are restricted to.

Anyways, I'm throwing my support behind this.

Seto's face icon has 6 states and is 34.6kb. You could probably fit 18~ without going over the size limit. I'm not really interested in increasing the maximum file size either, because it increases the size of backups as well, and because I don't think it's necessary.

"[url=http://neus-projects.net/viewtopic.php?p=5711#p5711 Wrote:Neus » Sun Mar 22, 2015 4:08 pm[/url]"]Seto's face icon has 6 states and is 34.6kb. You could probably fit 18~ without going over the size limit. I'm not really interested in increasing the maximum file size either, because it increases the size of backups as well, and because I don't think it's necessary.

I also think Seto's icon has a transparent background, which not everyone has the means to do, which would lower the amount of pixels used in that particular state and therefore decrease the filesize?

I can't cram any more than 6 into the limit we have.

"[url=http://neus-projects.net/viewtopic.php?p=5710#p5710 Wrote:Ranylyn » Sun Mar 22, 2015 2:44 pm[/url]"]It was unintentional, but harmless, so it remained unchanged

It was fixed, actually.

"[url=http://neus-projects.net/viewtopic.php?p=5714#p5714 Wrote:Ranylyn » Sun Mar 22, 2015 4:22 pm[/url]"]I also think Seto's icon has a transparent background, which not everyone has the means to do, which would lower the amount of pixels used in that particular state and therefore decrease the filesize?

I can't cram any more than 6 into the limit we have.

In order of personal preference and professionalism:

http://pixlr.com/ -> Use Magic Wand to highlight all background, then Eraser tool on highlighted sections.

http://www180.lunapic.com/editor/ -> Literally has a button for it, may have to fiddle with Tolerance levels. Good for solid colour backgrounds.

http://www.online-image-editor.com/help/transparency -> Literally has a button for it, may have to fiddle with Tolerance levels. Good for solid colour backgrounds.


Saving as .dmi is also nice for reducing filesize, in case somebody didn't know this yet.

EDIT: Hell, if you're using BYOND to make the .dmi, you can set alpha to 0 (slidey bar next to colour selection, last I saw) and use Fill tool to remove background easy, too.