Open Source SHP Builder 3 Goes Beta!!! Sign Up Now!

[Banshee 28]

After 5 months of hard work, Stucuk and I have finally finished the first public beta version of OS SHP Builder 3. The program has drastically changed with many new features and a quite improved interface that allows multiples files to be edited at once. Here's the list of features, although we might have added more than this:

 

 

 

2.99.01 (aka 3.0 Beta 1)

- revisions by Banshee and Stucuk

 

 

- -> Added: Multiples Documents Interfaces. You can open the ammount of shp limited by your RAM at the same time. Each SHP may gain its own preview window.

- -> Added: Import Improved: More optimize options, more Colour Conversion Methods, ability to set a size for all frames independent of their original size and use pixel resizing or canvas resizing to ajust them.

- -> Added: Undo added! You can undo all your mistakes.

- -> Added: Resize Canvas.

- -> Added: Cameo Generator! It fully generates your cameo for RA2 and TS with few clicks of the mouse. It also comes with TS cameo backgrounds from SMIFFGIG and RA2 cameos made by ArgCmdr.

- -> Added: Preview has gained magnify (zoom) options.

- -> Added: Colour scheme support and instantaneous colour replacement. Also added support for Pal Pack I and II. Thanks to ArgCmdr.

- -> Added: 24 Bit Effects Colour Replacement. This is a variation of the colour replacement that allows you to add and reduce ammount of red, green and blue in the colours not specified at the Colours To Spare box.

- -> Added: Palette Conversion Colour Replacement. You can now do proper conversion between different palettes without screwing up the colours or appealing to PSP for every single frame (or exporting and importing again all the time).

- -> Added: PCX support added and although the Open Dialog box doesnt view it, you can import them as SHP or add them as cameo backgrounds (which we dont recommend).

- -> Added: The greatest majority of the old features are extremely faster. This includes: Import, AutoShadows, Colour Replacement, Sequence Maker, etc...

- -> Added: The usage of the select tool has been extended. You can now replace colours only in a selected area of the picture or make a cameo from the selected area of the picture.

- -> Added: New Shape: Elipse.

- -> Added: Colour Replacement is now ranged (from frame X to Y). Also, the normal colour replacement gained 13 spots, so you can replace 18 colours at once. Once you selected a colour to be replaced and a colour to replaced this colour, the program auto checks it for you.

- -> Added: You can now set which animations the sequence maker will have in the preferences. You can save them and load them whenever you want as well as export it to friends.

- -> Added: Fully compatibility with all custom schemes and palettes created with Open Source Palette Editor 1.1.

- -> Added: Batch tool and improved export tools.

- -> Fixed: Inumerous problems that were happening in the import image as SHP section and other loads of bugs...

 

 

I'd like also to thanks the following people for helping us to reach this beta:

 

- Olaf Van Der Spek for creating XCC and making of it open source. Without him, we wouldnt be able to decode/encode the SHP (TS) files.

- ArgCmdr for Pal Pack I and II and for Cameo Background Pack I and II.

- Blade for his excelent cameo tutorial at his old site.

- Kravvitz for helping even more to perfect the cameo generator.

- SMIFFGIG, for the TS cameo backgrounds.

- Those who made the MS Paint graphics also deserves their credit

- And all of those who contributed with suggestions to improve the program.

 

 

And this is how I could short the features. I believe in this future this program might be as good as photoshop, except that it will be specially focused for TS and RA2 modders.

 

 

Anyway, if you wanna sign up for beta testing, helping us to track down the bugs of the program as well as helping us to make the current features of the program even better, please sign up at this topic. But do it fast, as the number of beta spots are limited. Those who had their nicknames mentioned in the special thanks have a special beta spot awaiting for them if they want.