#1566 - dummer Anf?nger - Mon Jan 20, 2003 9:41 am
Hi and hello.
We work currently on an pthotshop -> gba export tool.
It is then aviable for win, mac and power pc versions of photoshop 4+ and have the following features.
- linear or tiled data output
- 4,8,16 bit colors
- lzss support
- output as source
planed:
- output as ROM including scroling engine
- output as raw data
- output as GB-FS Data for directly use in games
Any wishes ?
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#1575 - lordmetroid - Mon Jan 20, 2003 1:07 pm
just make a basic thing... esxporting it to either 16 or 256 color tiles in binary format!
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#1579 - dummer Anf?nger - Mon Jan 20, 2003 1:37 pm
GB-FS is binary Data. So the file is binary Data and the FS is just an simply FAT clone to use it on gba.
New Feature added: dithering.
Looks well at pc but i have to test this evening how much sense it makes on gba.
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#1590 - darkcloud - Mon Jan 20, 2003 4:26 pm
Sounds pretty cool, I'll probably check it out when its done since I use photoshop for a lot of graphics things.
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#1602 - tepples - Mon Jan 20, 2003 6:11 pm
| dummer Anf?nger wrote: |
| GB-FS is binary Data. So the file is binary Data and the FS is just an simply FAT clone to use it on gba. |
FAT16? Isn't that a little overkill for a ROM filesystem, where you can guarantee that every file will be contiguous? You could just use a simple archive system such as TAR, ASS, or my own GBFS.
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#1626 - Touchstone - Mon Jan 20, 2003 8:31 pm
What would be _waaay_ more usefull as Photoshop plugin would be a palette handler with quantizer so you can arrange 16 color tiles and palettes. Seeing as photoshop can save linear binary by default I fail to see the reason to write a plugin for this. But like I said, a palette manager plugin would be helluva more usefull.
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#1664 - dummer Anf?nger - Tue Jan 21, 2003 9:09 am
Urgs im Sorry. Tepples u can belive it or not i meaning your GBFS ^^
I hope it is ok that we want to use it ?!?!
However. How we make it with palettes?
Hm im not sure. Currently it is planed to strip the gfx files to .p4 .p8 files for palettes and .g4 .g8 files for the data. then crompressed .c8 .c16 or just liniar true color data .g16
So u can handle the files however u want.
The reason why i include this feature is that graphic workers in our team can work without the source code AND u have more control about the mass of files.
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#1713 - tepples - Tue Jan 21, 2003 10:08 pm
| dummer Anf?nger wrote: |
Urgs im Sorry. Tepples u can belive it or not i meaning your GBFS ^^
I hope it is ok that we want to use it ?!?! |
That'd be perfectly fine. My GBA-side runtime library is under the Expat License, a simple all-permissive license.
However, the PC-side tools are under the GNU General Public License. I've decided to grant an exception to allow users of GBFS to make Photoshop plug-ins using the GBFS tools. To take advatage of this exception, go back and re-download GBFS. However, this does mean that you must publish the source code of any Photoshop plug-in that includes my implementation of the PC side of GBFS. If you do not accept the GNU GPL, feel free to rewrite the PC side of GBFS yourself based on the format documentation in README.txt in the GBFS package.
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#1735 - dummer Anf?nger - Wed Jan 22, 2003 8:43 am
Hm ure right i dont want to publish the whole plugin code because the GBFS Part for hisself is aviable at our Homepage. I will write youre URL and so on into the readme/credit file and i think everyone that is interested will go to the Page and dl it.
So long as the plugin is freeware i think there is no prob. I hope so.
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#1848 - dummer Anf?nger - Fri Jan 24, 2003 11:28 am
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#1982 - headspin - Mon Jan 27, 2003 1:05 am
This looks really good! Is it possible to add a new feature?
"Re-organise palette".. to allow you to change the order of colours in a palette as well as setting the background colour (index colour #0).
"Match palette".. lets you load an ACT/ACO/PAL and will adjust the palette to be the same. If you have two 16 colour pictures and you want them to both use the same palette, you can use this to match the colours.
#2094 - dummer Anf?nger - Wed Jan 29, 2003 9:08 am
This is not planed because u can to that into photoshop
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#3258 - headspin - Fri Feb 21, 2003 6:56 am
You can't actually change the order of colors in the palette with Photoshop, which is something I'd find very useful.
Any download for this util yet?
#3259 - dummer Anf?nger - Fri Feb 21, 2003 9:11 am
Sorry im working on it but there is still a credit card problem :/
I will release the plugin to the public at the launch of the new devgba.de page. Beta testers are welcome. Just write me an e-mail.
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