Originally Posted by Marhkimov

Here's my guideline...


If your TGA files have alpha channels, save them as 32 bits. Do not check RLE compression otherwise the alpha channel will not be saved.

If your TGA files do not have alpha channels, save them as 24 bits. Check RLE compression and that should help to shrink the file size, without losing much color quality.

I avoid saving as 16 bits, since you will lose a lot of color quality if you do so.