Wesnoth RCX: visual team-coloring/recoloring tool [0.3.0]

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Wesnoth RCX: visual team-coloring/recoloring tool [0.3.0]

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Wesnoth RCX (codename Morning Star) is a small GUI application to allow Wesnoth artists and content authors to easily preview graphics filtered through the game's team coloring mechanism without needing to run the game itself.

It provides a simple preview functionality, as well as the option to save the results to disk for other purposes. A built-in visual palette and color range
editor allows artists and coders to play around with the various possibilities offered by Wesnoth’s team coloring and generate WML code for use in add-ons.

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The latest release is version 0.3.0.

See the project’s information page for download links for your platform.

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Version 0.1.1 is now available for download.
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Re: Wesnoth RCX: user interface for team-coloring

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May I post as average Joe?

I like the idea. I would like the sprite displayed bigger by factor 2. 72x72=> 144x144.

Please make sure bigger sprites get serviced too. Maybe up to 100x100?

I would like the output to display the result in different colors simultanously. Maybe 3 times 3 sprites for 9 different colors?

Yes and I would need a simple install procedure.

And maybe a drag drop function for the original sprite?

Great idea. Please keep up to make it useable for average Joe.
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Tet wrote:Please make sure bigger sprites get serviced too. Maybe up to 100x100?
Any image can be modified using this tool as long as it is in the PNG format. Larger images may not completely fit in the window at the default size, but you can resize the window as necessary in 0.1.1.
Tet wrote:Yes and I would need a simple install procedure.
I can't help with that. Installing Wesnoth RCX is as easy as compiling it against Qt4 right now — the executable can be run without any kind of traditional installation procedure. The problem is that I need people to make binaries for Windows and Mac OS X. In theory, the source should compile in those platforms with an appropriate version of the Qt4 SDK, but I don't have a Mac, and the SDK download for Windows is too large to afford it atm.
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Re: Wesnoth RCX: user interface for team-coloring

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Version 0.1.2 is now available.
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I've attached a copy of a binary of version 0.1.2 for Macintosh computers with Intel processors.
I believe it will work with version 10.4 or later of OS X but have only tested it with 10.6.

EDIT: See later post for latest version.
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Re: Wesnoth RCX: team-coloring tool (now for Windows and Mac

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Version 0.1.3, and a usable package for Windows 2000/XP and later, are released now!

EDIT: Linked the post below for the Mac OS X platform.
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Keeping up with progress...

Note that you'll probably have to download the Qt framework for this to work. Since it's very large and I don't know which parts are needed, I've left the external libraries out. You should be able to get it at this location.
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Seems to work fine on 10.5.8. It just took a download of 204Mb of support material in order to run the contents of an 80k zip file...
 
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Alarantalara wrote:Note that you'll probably have to download the Qt framework for this to work. Since it's very large and I don't know which parts are needed, I've left the external libraries out.
At least I know exactly what's needed for the Windows version. Maybe it'll help you with the Mac OS X bundle as well — here is some documentation on deploying Mac OS X applications with Qt 4.

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shadowm@bluecore:~/win32/bin1$ ls -l wesnoth-rcx-0.1.3-win32
total 12336
-rw-r--r-- 1 shadowm shadowm   18351 Oct 26 19:59 COPYING.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 shadowm shadowm   43008 Oct 26 19:59 libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll
-rw-r--r-- 1 shadowm shadowm   11362 Oct 26 20:02 mingwm10.dll
-rw-r--r-- 1 shadowm shadowm  189952 Oct 26 19:59 morningstar.exe
-rw-r--r-- 1 shadowm shadowm     964 Oct 26 19:59 NEWS.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 shadowm shadowm 2537472 Oct 26 19:59 QtCore4.dll
-rw-r--r-- 1 shadowm shadowm 9814016 Oct 26 19:59 QtGui4.dll
-rw-r--r-- 1 shadowm shadowm    1495 Oct 26 19:59 README.txt
Binary: morningstar.exe (eventually to be renamed to rcx.exe)
Qt 4 libraries: QtCore4.dll, QtGui4.dll
Dependencies (Mingw32): libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll, mingwm10.dll
Documentation (RCX): COPYING.txt, NEWS.txt, README.txt
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Re: Wesnoth RCX: team-coloring tool (now for Windows and Mac

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Thanks for the link. I'd figured out that I needed to recompile Qt so I could link to it statically, but hadn't gotten around to identifying what I needed to do to achieve that. Your link nicely addresses that problem.

EDIT: I have a working version with everything included, but it's too large to post (13MB). As soon as I find somewhere to put it, I'll post a link.
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Now Alarantalara provides us with a self-contained bundle for Mac OS X!

You can download it here: @ Alarantalara: right now it doesn't matter since it's the first file, but in the future you may want to stick to the wesnoth-rcx-X.Y.Z naming pattern instead of using "morningstar" as the file name to avoid upload problems. AFAIK I can't rename it on a non-Mac machine without breaking the bundle's structure.
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This is a very handy tool; I can see myself using this to check TC for all my baseframes and animation frames. I think the thing that stood out to me most was the inability to zoom -which is very important in pixel art- since it's easier to locate a messed-up TC pixel at 300% than it is viewing the image is at 100%.
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Re: Wesnoth RCX: team-coloring tool (now for Windows and Mac

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Yep, factor 2 or 3 bigger display would be great. I do not think it needs a zoom. Just a switch would be nice.
Maybe display 3x3 pics in 9 different colors regular size OR one color size factor three.
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Zooming is already done, as mentioned here.
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