[m210®]

I will think about it

[Hank]

Thanks M210 - I used your program for the first time tonight, and the ability to import png files with the transparent data and not to have to mess with Edit Art's pink colour, wow.

[Marscaleb]

I've started using this program, and it is very useful.

But I am a little disappointed to find that I can't specify export options other than to have it be a png or a bmp.

When I export as a png, it exports as true color. If I want to preserve the palette data, then I HAVE to export as bmp.
Altogether, this doesn't add up to much. I can't honestly say that it has cost me more time than it took to write this post, especially since exporting isn't something I need to do very often.
Even so, I do wish I had a couple export options:
-Specify if I want to save as 24-bit or 256 color
-For PNG, specify if I want to save the alpha or a solid color
-For batch export, pad tile numbers (eg 001 instead of 1)
-For batch export, option to rename tiles according to their index in all of the art, not just the index within the given art file. Or at least give a warning that you are about to overwrite some files.

Actually that last one would have saved me a couple minutes of hassle.

But overall a very good product. I look forward to using it more fully.

[Kyanos]

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-For batch export, option to rename tiles according to their index in all of the art, not just the index within the given art file. Or at least give a warning that you are about to overwrite some files.

^ this also.

I'd recommend the naming convention used by the old art2bmp, APLAYER = ART01405.BMP as an example.

[m210®]

Hi. I updated my BAFed to version 1.16. Check it now

[Anvil]

Can you add an option to copy multiple tiles at once to their slots in another art file?

[m210®]

You can do it with Batch Export and after open a new ART file and import pics to it. You also can import other ART file to opened ARTfile

[Danukem]

I started using this yesterday, and it's a very good tool except for one glaring problem: it does not open grp files! This means that I have to export all my art files from the grp first, which is messy.

[m210®]

I will thinking about GRP support, but I don't know when I can do it, because I working on Blood port now

[WolfmanFP]

I tried to run BAFEd under JRE 10, and it threw an exception:

null
	java.desktop/javax.swing.ImageIcon.<init>(ImageIcon.java:217)
	BAFed.initialize(BAFed.java:983)
	BAFed.<init>(BAFed.java:264)
	BAFed.main(BAFed.java:207)

The Windows wrapper also doesn't work under JRE 10 because of a bug in Launch4j (I presume this is what you're using).

[Hank]

Is it just me, or is the link to BAFedgone?

[TerminX]

https://m210.duke4.n...bafed_1.160.zip

[Truck Stop Santa Claus]

Thanks a ton
This is way easier to use then EDITART

[MoonTurtle]

Hello!

I recently updated Java, and for some reason when I try to open Bafed, it won't open anymore, saying that it requires Java Runtime Environment 1.5.0 to run, can you update Bafed to make it compatible with more recent Java updates?

[m210®]

Hi. I almost don't check this thread I think I need to include .jar file in release archive before I make a new version (very not soon)

But in future I want to fully rewrite my editor.

[Zaxtor]

I love DukeRes

Despite new Editart
I still use DukeRes

[m210®]

Hi. I have released the new version of my BAFed.
The interface has been changed and now it is supporting ART files of Blood.

I tried to make my program more convenience. Here is a link: BAFed Enjoy

[Danukem]

I downloaded, but there is no changelog. Were there any other changes besides Blood support? I use BAFed for Duke 3D projects all the time.

[m210®]

Trooper Dan, on 04 July 2019 - 11:42 PM, said:

I downloaded, but there is no changelog. Were there any other changes besides Blood support? I use BAFed for Duke 3D projects all the time.

I haven't thought about changelog yet, sorry But I wrote some here on my site:

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1. BAFed is supporting Build palettes (*.dat), photoshop palettes (*.act) and Microsoft palettes (*.pal)
2. Since v2.0 you can choose a few tiles by mouse and export it to a folder. In the import window, you can choose a few files by mouse with pushed a Ctrl-button.
3. ART files saving feature have been rewritten, therefore ART files of Blood are also supporting now.
4. BAFed is supporting voxel.dat and surface.dat files of Blood.
5. You can resize chosen tile in an opened ART.
6. I made movable preview picture of the chosen tile.
7. BAFed's viewer has zoom feature of up to 999%.
8. BAFed is supporting the clipboard. You can copy any picture to the clipboard and paste it in BAFed and vice versa - you can copy a chosen tile to the clipboard and paste it in any graphical editor.

Also, I remember about GRP support and I already prepared the code of BAFed to make the support.

[m210®]

The new BAFed has written almost from zero, so I can't tell exactly about changes. But here are some of them:

1. The interface has been changed and now it is supporting ART files of Blood.
2. Since v2.0 you can choose a few tiles by mouse and export it to a folder. In the import window, you can choose a few files by mouse with pushed a Ctrl-button.
3. ART files saving feature have been rewritten, therefore ART files of Blood are also supporting now and it's not changing start tile of ART depended on a filename.
4. BAFed is supporting voxel.dat and surface.dat files of Blood.
5. BAFed is supporting the clipboard. You can copy any picture to the clipboard and paste it in BAFed and vice versa - you can copy a chosen tile to the clipboard and paste it in any graphical editor.
6. Animated tiles are highlighting in the tile list.
7. You can fast switch between ART files by "File" menu from an ART list.
8. Quantity of included palettes has been increased.
9. Resizeable thumbnails in the tile list.
10. Thumbnails autozoom feature
11. Tile crc32 info (for def-scripts)
12. Tile palette converting feature has been deleted.
13. *.ini script file import feature has been deleted.

[Danukem]

Thanks for the info!

There is one thing that has been a big nuisance for me when I'm using the batch import tile feature. Let's say I have a bunch of tiles named in my folder:


0.png, 1.png, 2.png, 3.png 4.png, 5.png, 6.png, 7.png, 8.png, 9.png 10.png

If I batch import, it will do it in this order: 0.png, 1.png, 10.png, 2.png, etc

This messes up the order if I am importing character animations. The files I use are auto-named from a sprite sheet unpacker, so I either have to rename them or hide certain tiles and do them bunches. I guess I should have checked before typing all this, but is it fixed in this version?

[m210®]

Trooper Dan, on 05 July 2019 - 01:13 AM, said:

but is it fixed in this version?

Not, because I haven't known about this issue. I'm not sure, but I will try to fix it.

In the other hand, in this version, you can choose files you want partially. For example choose 0 - 9.png, do import, then open the import windows again and choose 10 - 19.png. The older version didn't have such feature.

[Danukem]

The interface is a huge improvement over the old version. Being able to see the whole file at once instead of being constrained to a single row of tile makes it much faster to inspect an art file. And being able to type in the offset numbers instead of clicking to increment them is also much faster.

[m210®]

Yeah, I'm trying to make it more convenient, and I still have some ideas to improve the interface

[Doom64hunter]

Trooper Dan, on 05 July 2019 - 01:13 AM, said:

Thanks for the info!

There is one thing that has been a big nuisance for me when I'm using the batch import tile feature. Let's say I have a bunch of tiles named in my folder:

0.png, 1.png, 2.png, 3.png 4.png, 5.png, 6.png, 7.png, 8.png, 9.png 10.png

If I batch import, it will do it in this order: 0.png, 1.png, 10.png, 2.png, etc

This messes up the order if I am importing character animations. The files I use are auto-named from a sprite sheet unpacker, so I either have to rename them or hide certain tiles and do them bunches. I guess I should have checked before typing all this, but is it fixed in this version?

I actually had this same issue recently, though it's probably more on part of the sprite unpacker to fix rather than on BAFed.
The sprite unpacker should ideally count the number of files and prepend a number of 0 digits to the filename, since that makes more sense with lexical sort ordering, but oh well.

edit:

m210®, on 05 July 2019 - 01:29 AM, said:

Not, because I haven't known about this issue. I'm not sure, but I will try to fix it.

In the other hand, in this version, you can choose files you want partially. For example choose 0 - 9.png, do import, then open the import windows again and choose 10 - 19.png. The older version didn't have such feature.

This pretty much solves the problem though.

[Jblade]

nice work - could you add a keypress or bind to move the actor's alignment as well as the little buttons?

EDIT: n/m, just found out you can press the arrow keys when the alignment box is selected.

[m210®]

Jblade, on 08 July 2019 - 11:24 PM, said:

nice work - could you add a keypress or bind to move the actor's alignment as well as the little buttons?

EDIT: n/m, just found out you can press the arrow keys when the alignment box is selected.

Also you can use PnUp, PnDw, End and Home buttons to navigation

[Doom64hunter]

Feature suggestion:

Drag&Drop sprite offset editing, e.g. you hold the CTRL key and that would allow you to drag the offset reticle around, instead of the sprite itself.
That would be a great help for cases where you need to align a large number of frames.

By the way, the new version is great and has been massively useful so far. Great work!

[Jblade]

also a little suggest, could importing tiles via the batch option keep the previous alignment, rather than resetting it to zero?

[Danukem]

Jblade, on 29 July 2019 - 11:43 AM, said:

also a little suggest, could importing tiles via the batch option keep the previous alignment, rather than resetting it to zero?

It did keep the alignment in previous versions. Yeah, that's a problem if you are replacing an actor tile set.