Tools so simple nobody else bothered making them

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worstplayer
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Tools so simple nobody else bothered making them

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I made some uber simple tools you might find useful

You've all seen them, prerendered sprites with antialiasing. If you render them on bright background, they look like shit on dark BG, if you render them on dark BG, they look like shit on bright BG
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Well, here's a solution:
Just open it in this simple tool, press spacebar, and wait while magic happens, or hit spacebar again to stop the process
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Partially transparent pixels now have color of nearest solid surface, and fit perfectly on any background. Obviously, this doesn't work properly if sprite itself has transparent parts.

I also included a texture padding tool, just left click on empty space and it will generate padding, nothing less, nothing more.
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No more nasty surprises when using mipmaps.

Oh, and before I forget: Press S to save results :D
Here's the download: http://www.mediafire.com/?sjoay9b8cbxcaoz
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Re: Tools so simple nobody else bothered making them

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Yes.

I gotta test this!
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Re: Tools so simple nobody else bothered making them

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Slight upgrade, with some more junk you'll need maybe once or twice:

-different way to fix edges, works with partially transparent sprites, but requires black background (press M)
-Brightness to opacity (press B)
-Remove all transparency (press F)
-Hard transparency, removes everything below 50% and makes the rest fully opaque (press H)
-Make any color transparent (right click)
(I suck at shortcuts, should've made a GUI...)

whole thing should be faster too.

here: http://www.mediafire.com/?lotlaoysqk1caew
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Another upgrade, now with primitive GUI, and even more primitive normal map generator

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http://www.mediafire.com/?o61l867z8ni3e7x
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Re: Tools so simple nobody else bothered making them

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This is cool, thanks.
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