NitroPaint 2.9.10.0

Changes:

• IMPORTANT: Color reduction settings have changed:
  • Balance slider default position has a more sensible meaning now
  • Balance slider is stronger
  • If you were dragging the balance slider all the way to "Color" before, you probably don't have to do that anymore!
• Support for STTEX files from S&SASRDS
• 4x4 compression better respects textures with large gradient colors
• Added more options to the dialog to import SHARP LC fonts
• Add option to show unused palette colors in the texture editor
  • Marks completely unused colors with X
  • Marks colors used only for interpolation with -
• Adds the selection system to the texture editor
• Paste unconverted image data into a texture (will convert on the fly)
• Performance improvements to color reduction
• New file IPC mechanism over pipes
• Corrected a bug in writing 5TX files with heights under a power of 2
• Corrected a bug where keyboard shortcuts on Windows controls in editors were being lost
• Corrected a bug where a file that failed to be opened would read as a file of 0 bytes

NitroPaint 2.9.9.1

Changes:

• Corrects some behaviors in the layered palette system:
  • Fixes a bug where a cluster with only one color would not calculate its centroid correctly for layered palettes
  • Fixes a bug where layered palettes used with color-0 transparency mode would reference the palette incorrectly

NitroPaint 2.9.9.0

Changes:

• Add palette swap texture conversion functionality
  • Input multiple images and generate one texture to be shared with one palette for each of the input images
• Importing texture data from NTFT shows a preview of texture data
• Support for the PIC image format and NNS PIC texture format
• Indexed TGA files are now treated as indexed images
• Performance improvements to color reduction
• Fixes an issue where changing a file's format would not cause it to be saved in the new format
• Fixes a bug where color reduction in color-0-transparent mode would sometimes delete an extra color
• Fixes an issue where importing a SHARP LC Font into a Shift-JIS font would cause code points to be incorrect
• Fixes an issue where a SHARP LC Font using UTF-16 encoding would be treated as Shift-JIS
• Fixes a bug where NSBTX data would be output incorrectly
• Fixes a bug where reading a binary spec file would crash
• Fixes a bug where importing a direct color TGA file onto character data would crash
• Fixes a bug excluding the SPT format from the GUI
• Fixes a bug where one field in the Tose NSC files was incorrect

NitroPaint 2.9.8.0

Thanks for bearing with me the past month! A new version arrives.

Changes:

• Adjustments to the texture editor interface
  • Status information is moved to a status bar on the bottom of the editor
  • UI commands are moved to the top of the editor
  • Texture palette is no longer a separate MDI window but appears in the texture editor
  • New "Show Alpha" option to show the alpha channel in isolation
• Added support for the PuCrunch compression format
• Added a new "Open As" dialog for manual file format specification
• Added new "Compress File" and "Decompress File" menu commands for general file compression/decompression
• Corrected an incorrect field in GRF file output
• Corrected an issue with incorrect alpha conversion in opaque textures under a3i5/a5i3 formats
• Performance improvements to color reduction
• A bug causing incorrect NSBTX output of sub-power-of-2 textures was corrected
• A bug causing crashes in the NANR file output was corrected
• A problem causing poor performance of the color palette viewer was corrected

NitroPaint 2.9.7.2

Sorry for the bugs! A few have been corrected.

Changes:

• Fixes a bug causing incorrect NSBTX output
• Fixes a bug where GRF textures with sub-power-of-2 heights would be read incorrectly
• Fixes a bug causing incorrect Huffman detection
• Fixes a bug causing crashes when importing bitmaps in the BG screen editor
• Corrected handling of 5BG files for background
• GRF files use optimal compression for each block
• BMG file sizes are optimized

NitroPaint 2.9.7.1

Happy New Years! A couple of bugs fixed from the last release:

• Cell generator was not respecting transparency of input image data
• NTF texture import was not taking NTFP input correctly

NitroPaint 2.9.7.0

Changes:

• Color reduction
  • Made faster using SSE2 vector operations
  • General color reduction supports the fixed palette
  • Enhance Colors is now enabled by default
• Background conversion
  • Uses less memory during character compression
  • Ability to use color 0 as an opaque color slot
  • Support for generating normal affine and bitmap backgrounds
• Texture Conversion
  • Direct mode texture conversion uses balance settings
  • Revised color reduction of a3i5/a5i3 textures
  • Progress bar works for all texture formats
  • Texture conversion may be aborted
  • Texture conversion warns when VRAM limits are exceeded
  • Batch texture conversion converts textures in parallel
• Font Editor
  • Supports Starfy DS font files
  • Support importing glyphs from SHARP LC Fonts
  • Fixed a bug causing incorrect text rendering and input with Shift-JIS fonts
  • Fixed a bug causing crashes when invalidating the glyph cache
• Message Editor
  • Added (support for BMG files)
• Character Editor
  • Support OBJ-mode graphics import
  • Fixed bug with attribute data on changing bit depths
• Cell Editor
  • Auto-Calculate Bounds is now enabled by default
• Others
  • Support OBJ-mode 5BG files
  • Support files from TOSE games
  • Support GRF Files
    • Textures
    • Backgrounds
    • Cell and animation
  • File format presets
  • Ability to zoom 32x and 64x
• Bug fixes
  • Fixed bug copying DIBv5 data to the clipboard
  • Fixed layout editor crashing on empty fonts
  • Fixed a bug where combo files would not have the right Save As filters
  • Fixed a bug causing crashes attempting to detect some Mario vs Donkey Kong compressed files

NitroPaint 2.9.6.2

Changes:

• Texture editor
  • 4x4 compression is made faster
  • Warnings for potentially invalid texture sizes
• BG generator
  • Fixed a bug introduced in 2.9.6.1 where an incorrect color slot may be used
• Font editor
  • Export whole glyph set
• Animation Editor
  • Fixed a bug causing a crash when selecting "Insert Below" in an empty animation
• Texture archives
  • Warn on resource name truncation

NitroPaint 2.9.6.1

Changes:

• Performance improvements to color reduction
• Slight modifications to color weighting
• Color reduction bug fixes
  • Under some scenarios, there would be excess color distortion during color reduction
  • 4x4 compression could crash in specific cases

NitroPaint 2.9.6.0

Changes:

• Color Reduction dialog
  • Reduce image colors (general use)
• OBJ mode character import
  • Select OBJ size to import 1D with respect to
• Support SPT files
• Support TGA grayscale images
• Copying graphics copies indexed image data when possible
• Interoperability with bitmap and palette alpha with iMageStudio clipboard
• Zoom via Ctrl+Scroll
• Bug fixes
  • Layout editor was using the wrong icon sometimes
  • Texture/palette name crashes
  • Alpha values appropriately weighted during color reduction
  • 4x4 compression consistently uses the user-specified balance settings