Special:Badtitle/NS100:ToxSpriteEditor

Populous Sprite Editor

Populous Texture Editor

by Toxicity

Toxicity's Populous Sprite Editor is a program created by Toxicity (2020), and allows the user to import/export Populous sprites.

Features

Open Banks

• Preview scaled sprites (slider) with nearest-neighbor interpolation.
• Export sprites as bitmaps (individually or in bulk).
• View offset, index, width, height and raw data of each sprite.

Create Banks

• From bitmaps of any width & height.
• Append or insert to an "existing" bank.
• Modify original sprites width & height.

Color Palette

• Preview color palette.
• Adjustable color key.
• Export to bitmap format.

Pixel Inspector

Hover over an image and a tooltip will appear showing the highlighted pixel's values:

• Position (current width & height).
• RGB values.
• Index in the color palette.
• Right click to copy RGB values.

Sprite Editor:

• 2 color slots (right/left click).
• Brush mode; paint individual pixels (r/l click).
• Color pick mode; copy RGB values from highlighted pixel (r/l click).
• CTRL + Z (undo).
• CTRL + Y (redo).
• Key B (brush mode).
• Key Y (color pick mode).

Sprite Sheet Manager:

• Generate sheets from frames.
• Parse & Split sheets to individual frames.

Procedure

Usage is straight forward. The numbering (names) of the bitmaps is the order they'll be saved in, and any gaps in the numbering isn't a problem as the editor will renumber the files internally. Files that aren't bitmaps or bitmaps with letters in the name will be ignored.

• Download the latest release. (links at bottom of this page)
• Ensure pal.dat is located in the same folder as the software.
• Open a valid bank File -> Open from the game's data folder.
• Export all sprites within the bank File -> Export Sprites.
• Open the newly created folder output (editor folder), it should contain all saved sprites.
• Modify (resolution and/or colors), delete or add new bitmaps.
• Create a new bank from these bitmaps File -> Create Sprite Bank -> From Images.
• Replace the original game's sprite bank with the newly created one.

Sprite Sheets

A valid sprite sheet has to abide by the following rules:

• Sprites can't touch corners or edges; ensure there's a space between of at least 1 pixel.
• New rows have to be separated by a pink continuous line.
• Background color has to be cyan. (RGB: 0, 255, 255)
• Color key color has to be pink. (RGB: 255, 0, 255)

An example of a valid sprite sheet

Credits

EasyBMP Library

License

PopSpriteEditor Copyright © 2020 Toksisitee. This program is distributed under the GNU GPLv3 license. See the LICENSE file for more details.

Links

Download Toxicity's Populous Sprite Editor (v1.3.2) Here. (insert link)