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Beginners > Graphic artist needs some help...

#5711 - IzerTWO - Tue May 06, 2003 4:10 pm

Hi there,
as stated in the title I'm not a programmer, but a 2D artist. I'm currently involved in a GBA-project, as BG-artist, and would need some kind of easy to use picture-viewer/slideshow-thingie to view my tiles on the actual screen, to check for brightness/gamma/contrast etc. For the transfer I would use the MBV2-cable, though I don't have a flashcard at the moment. So only small programs, that fit in the internal ram would work. I will get a flashcard soon, but at the moment, I need to work out a way to keep the program small. Any advice? ( I hope this is the right forum to ask though)

#5712 - niltsair - Tue May 06, 2003 4:20 pm

I'm soon to release a program that runs on Windows that takes any picture format and convert them to a SlideShow on the gba. It show your pictures in 32000 colors and FullSize/Resize mode. It also create thumbails of all your pics that you can quickly browse and display text for each picture.

So, you could use it for what you want, before your picture are converted to Tiles. And even though Tiles only use 16/256 colors, it would be no problem since i'm only displaying the palette value directly.

#5721 - darkcloud - Tue May 06, 2003 11:50 pm

Or you can download the tool called "Converter of Graphics" in the gbadev tool section.

I'm pretty sure it can make ROM files directly from an image you give it. If CoG doesn't do it, I know one of the tools does it.
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#5992 - niltsair - Wed May 14, 2003 8:51 pm

My program has been released on GbaDev main site.

You can access it at this address : http://www.gbadev.org/tools_gfx.php
Under the name: SlideAdvance Editor
It'll allow you to easily see your picture on hardware.