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PNG, M A, Flats!

Sunday · 9 Feb 03 · 05:46 PM IST | Posted by Karthik | Category: General

Yesterday was an interesting day at college because I was there for just a couple of hours - classes were very abridged and I was home by around 1:15 PM! There is now a new channel we are receiving on TV - this is called M A TV and is a Chinese channel. (Srikanth had told me about it in the morning). Many of the shows and movies on the channel are subtitled in English, although some of them are in Chinese only. I still haven't watched a whole movie on that channel, I am waiting for a nice martial arts movie...

I also went to the PNG Home Page yesterday. PNG (Portable Network Graphics) is an image format that I make use of extensively on my site, and many people have asked me why I use PNGs and not the more common GIFs and JPEGs. I do use those two image formats for certain things, but I have found PNG to be superior for almost all other purposes. The official page has lots of interesting information about PNG.

One more important thing I did yesterday evening is to find out how to use new flats (floors and ceilings) in Doom levels. Of course, this is not something new, but it is the first time I am doing it. I use a combination of my regular editor, DoomCAD, and Csabo's excellent multi-purpose tool XWE for this, and I also made some nice new flats yesterday.

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27-year old Taurean (birthday 15-May-82), Assistant Manager - HR at Tata Consultancy Services Ltd in Hyderabad, India. Previously, did Post Graduate Diploma in Management from T A Pai Management Institute (2003-05) and before that, Computer Science Engineering from Sree Nidhi Institute of Science and Technology (1999-2003).

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