Recent content by Plombo

I understand your problem, but it's not an accident that PalApply works this way. The output is like that to match how alpha masks work in OpenBOR, which can reproduce the original image's partial transparency by combining the regular output of PalApply with the alpha mask that PalApply...

That's right. You understood correctly :)

That's right. You understood correctly

PalApply is a powerful tool by @Plombo that (as the name implies) applies color tables to images. This tool is a must get even if you have access to full featured image editors like Photoshop or Gimp. The batch mode is a fantastic time saver, and image outputs are fully optimized .png files...

We don't even have to go that far, since the input rework actually does work on the Wii. We'll have to drop the PSP if it hasn't already been dropped, but that's long overdue anyway.

I hate to complicate things further, but I really do still want to merge the input rework into master. That's still something I think about on a daily basis, even if I'm not around here much anymore. Because, well, the input rework was and is finished except for platform support for Wii and...

I watched your video. The only big thing I'd raise is what Damon already said about how the transparent color doesn't have to be pink. A smaller thing: I don't understand where you're going with the part where you create a .act in Fighter Factory. If you're just going to use PalApply, it can...

I've never understood the collision code very well, but I don't see any obvious issues with your proposed rework.

Yeah, the alpha mask is a separate image. You can save a PNG as RGB (not indexed) with your editor to keep the alpha mask, and then use PalApply v2 to turn it into a separate indexed image and alpha mask. From there, use the "alphamask" command in OpenBOR; you can look it up in the manual.

I don't think there's any such list. What purpose do you need it for? Newer versions of the engine just run everything as 32-bit color anyway.

Way back in 2010, I added a command called alphamask to the engine that enabled sprites to have fully custom alpha values for each pixel. It didn't really have an immediate uptake. The feature was never especially well known, and the requirements for making them were a bit scary: the fully...

Hey. I don't know whether you'll want to update the manual immediately or wait until the change is in an actual release, but a recent change I made to the engine obsoletes a line in the "alphamask" description: That line can be removed since the future is now, and alpha masking finally works...

Hey everyone. I rewrote my 10 year old program PalApply to support alpha masks and write well-optimized PNG output. I quietly released a replacement for the command line PalApply a year or two ago, but now I've gotten around to a full replacement for the GUI version that most people use...

Oh, but if we're adding more software to the tools directory, we'll run into the same issues I brought up in this thread. Fortunately, we can use the same solution I suggested there! Git for Windows is already distributed using a GitHub releases page, so we wouldn't even have to mirror it...

It looks like the Git for Windows releases include a minimalist Git distribution called MinGit that we could probably use.