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Graal Char Viewer

This is an amazing tool for viewing heads, bodies, shields and swords in an easily navigated window. I personally don't know what I would do without it when I try to make good looking NPC's for my levels. Full credit goes to the author, BinaryCrash, and not to me. I am just posting this because I think it would be a shame to not inform people about it.

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It's not perfect, but pretty damn close to it. It would be cool to have the scroll scrollable with mousewheel for example, but I guess you can't have it all.

binary is pretty oldschool :) enigma sup

It does looks pretty nice indeed.

This is cool and useful, thanks.

I remember this, it's a very useful program. ;)

haha cool
i made one similar on Bravo, but not as advanced. gg

Yea this is awsome, what ever happened to BC?
On the side note (Sorry to take this off track), Snake I been looking for you message me.

Quote:

Originally Posted by xXziroXx (Post 1612497)

I personally don't know what I would do without it

Windows Photo Gallery?
Change folder view to full tiles?
Etc?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Supaman771 (Post 1612769)

Windows Photo Gallery?
Change folder view to full tiles?
Etc?

Write your own!

PHP Code:


		
			
//#CLIENTSIDE



function onCreated() {

  createGUI();

}



function createGUI() {

  if (isObject("Heads")) Heads.destroy();

  // Load Heads

  temp.files.loadfolder("levels/heads/*", false);

  temp.spaces = int(400 / 32) - 1;

  // Create GUI

  new GuiWindowCtrl("Heads") {

    width = 400 - 24;

    height = 300 + 12;

    isexternal = true;

    text = "Head Viewer";

    new GuiScrollCtrl("Heads_Scroll") {

      x = y = 2;

      width = Heads.width - 4;

      height = Heads.height - 4;

      this.clearcontrols();

      // Add Heads

      for (temp.file: temp.files) {

        new GuiShowImgCtrl("Head_" @ extractfilebase(temp.file)) {

          x = 32 * (temp.i % temp.spaces);

          y = 32 * int(temp.i / temp.spaces);

          image = temp.file;

          partw = parth = 32;

          partx = 0;

          party = 32 * 2;

          thiso.catchevent(this.name, "onMouseDown", "onHeadSelected");

        }

        temp.i++;

      }

    }

  }

}



function onHeadSelected(obj) {

  echo(obj.image);

}

I could really make this thing shine had I put more than 15 minutes into it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Supaman771 (Post 1612769)

Windows Photo Gallery?
Change folder view to full tiles?
Etc?

Yeah because that totally only shows a 32x32 square of the facing down sprite. Silly me. :blush:

In early 2004 when i was developing something for Maloria i was constantly searching for images in the folders and i didn't like to see every image in full, specially the bodies images.
So i created an app to just show what i wanted, for personal use.
I sent it to some friends working with me and they asked me if it could be distributed to others, and i said yes.

I could make it in java or php, but i did choose Delphi for this one.

The program was made in 2004.
In 2010 i just did put skin on it and made some adjustments as the original app had many bugs.
Later i was going to implement some new features, like mng support, search, categorizing and hosting it in a central server for sharing.
But this idea needed the staff approval.

EDIT: Sorry to post on an old thread.

This deserves a bump Binary, no worries. +rep

THIS IS cool BECAUSE THE GUI HADS A NICE SKIN

Quote:

Originally Posted by BinaryCrash (Post 1701385)

Glad to see I am not the only one that knows Delphi. However is this just GIF support of do you also use TPngImage in your uses? I am not sure on adding MNG support. Would be neat.

Does this only work on Heads, Swords, Shields, etc? and does it support for different head directions by chance? I haven't had a chance to check it out.

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Originally Posted by scriptless (Post 1701414)

I am not sure on adding MNG support. Would be neat.

As far as I know, gif2mng.exe converts to non-standards MNG.

Quote:

Originally Posted by scriptless (Post 1701414)

When i started to play Graal in 1998 (other acc name) i was programming in Visual Basic, then after seeing Graal was made in Delphi and i found some cool directx components i changed from VB to Delphi and so continued only in Delphi for years, until i started in Java and PHP in 2004. I can say graal motivated me.

I used omega components at first, because in old times Delphi only supported bmp in native img components. You would need to declare some new classes to use more.

I used two classes, TPngImage and another one i don't remember now.
The source is somewhere in my backups hdd, offline right now, but if you want i can search for it again.

The image is set to show pre-defined coordinates, to show face down of head, body, and shield. sword use the diagonal sprite.

It could easily be changed to show other sprites, like facing right. I just didn't do it. All i wanted is browse the images and get the filename of what i liked.

I added pngimage in "uses".
But you would need these classes files, dunno if Delphi already have one in today's version.

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Originally Posted by Crow (Post 1701415)

As far as I know, gif2mng.exe converts to non-standards MNG.

What i was saying is that i planned to make my app load and work with mng files. Like it already do with png.

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Originally Posted by BinaryCrash (Post 1701475)

What i was saying is that i planned to make my app load and work with mng files. Like it already do with png.

Meh, what the hell, I only saw this just now. What I was saying is that Graal's gif2mng.exe does not convert to a correct MNG format, therefore you'd have to implement support for MNG yourself and can't rely on any public libraries/source code for it.