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Re:The browser is the sandbox by noduerme on Monday January 26, 2026 @07:48AM (#46765005)
yeah, I really didn't want to use video. The vectors are around 64kb per cut scene. I don't want to create several Mb worth of mp4s for each one.
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Re:The browser is the sandbox by lukan on Monday January 26, 2026 @07:55AM (#46765064)
Did you give it a try? If the scenes are quite short, I found webm to have a reasonable small size.

But .. it bothers me of course as well, having a full video of rastergraphic what could be just some vector and animation data.

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Re:The browser is the sandbox by noduerme on Monday January 26, 2026 @07:58AM (#46765095)
I haven't tried with webm. But they need to play full screen on desktop and also stream well on mobile.

I might try Spine, I've heard some positive things. They'll still end up as textures in pixi but maybe at least they can pack well.

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