Exporting BMPs instead of PNGs in SLADE?

[Doomkid]

If someone could help me with this that would be fantastic, it's the one and only final reason I still have XWE installed..

 

Is there some way to export sprites/GFX lumps as BMPs rather than PNGs? I still use the version of mspaint that came with win98 to do sprite edits and it doesn't like PNG, and I just generally prefer editing in the BMP format.

[Gez]

The main reason why SLADE only offer PNG as an export format is that it can preserve sprite offsets in the custom grAb chunk.

 

I've made a ticket for it. In the meantime, Irfanview is great for doing batch-conversions.

[Doomkid]

Thanks, Gez!

[ReX]

On 9/4/2019 at 1:50 AM, Doomkid said:

... it's the one and only final reason I still have XWE installed..

That is one of the reasons I turn to XWE. [Plus, it can be used to extract graphics and resources from a bunch of old games.]

 

On 9/4/2019 at 1:50 AM, Doomkid said:

I still use the version of mspaint that came with win98 to do sprite edits and it doesn't like PNG, and I just generally prefer editing in the BMP format.

I, too, like editing BMP format images in MS Paint. Newer versions of MS Paint seemed to have dropped the BMP-editing functionality.

 

Incidentally, I have become fairly proficient in editing JPEG and PNG format images in GIMP, which I highly recommend. Another great program for modifying images is XNView, although there are no pencil or similar tools. (I.e., it can be used for resizing, adjusting color/hue/saturation, editing palettes - especially for assigning transparency, etc.)