Graphics viewer and editor
PostPosted: 23 Sep 2019, 19:08
Here's a little thing I worked on today, it can show some KAM graphics (decoded from the game files, it doesn't work without them).
Source: https://github.com/IJzerbaard/KAM-graphics-edit
It can be compiled with Visual Studio 2019, free edition. It should be possible to use older versions as well but then you'd have to basically make a new project and add the source to it.
Binary for convenience: http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?fi ... 3259692427
It only does houses and mapelements now, but I wanted to do units too.
It cannot save yet.. but I want to do that.
It can save houses.dat data now and houses.rx data.
For now, you could use it to make gifs like this (not built in, I used screen recorder, but I could build it in fairly easily if you guys want)
It can now be used to replace house graphics. The sprite can be exported as PNG in indexed mode with embedded palette (this didn't work right for GIMP 2.6, but 2.10 seems OK, Paint.NET works also), or as a normal full-colour PNG (suggested for general use). For importing it can be anything that .NET can load, but the colors must match the export palette exactly (note: there are differences with the KAM palette, to make all colors distinct). I have tested this with the real game and it works. By the way it is not possible now to use one of the animated colors in a sprite (water, swamp), I think the game hypothetically supports that though.
Source: https://github.com/IJzerbaard/KAM-graphics-edit
It can be compiled with Visual Studio 2019, free edition. It should be possible to use older versions as well but then you'd have to basically make a new project and add the source to it.
Binary for convenience: http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?fi ... 3259692427
It only does houses and mapelements now, but I wanted to do units too.
It cannot save yet.. but I want to do that.
It can save houses.dat data now and houses.rx data.
For now, you could use it to make gifs like this (not built in, I used screen recorder, but I could build it in fairly easily if you guys want)
It can now be used to replace house graphics. The sprite can be exported as PNG in indexed mode with embedded palette (this didn't work right for GIMP 2.6, but 2.10 seems OK, Paint.NET works also), or as a normal full-colour PNG (suggested for general use). For importing it can be anything that .NET can load, but the colors must match the export palette exactly (note: there are differences with the KAM palette, to make all colors distinct). I have tested this with the real game and it works. By the way it is not possible now to use one of the animated colors in a sprite (water, swamp), I think the game hypothetically supports that though.
