Ilb Maker allows to encode custom ILBs for Age of Wonders, starting from any type of bitmap.
1.0.2.7 Release note:
1 - Open AoW2/SM Ilb files
2 - Work much better
1.0.1.4 Release note:
1 - Add filtering features: from the Filter icon on the toolbar you may open the Filter Tool Window to set a lot of different filters on the images. A preview window will show the effect on current selected image, however during 'Make' task the filters will be applied to all pictures. For now filters may be only added or removed, not modified: you have to delete and recreate it.
2 - Add the Shift X and Shift Y fields: they are in the ilb, so why not to show them?
1.0.0.3 Release note:
1 - Fix a bug with the custom background color that you may choose in the toolbar: it didn't load & save correctly on program start/end, so you may have experience that ilbs were made all with black transparent color.
2 - Add the scroll bar to the area with the pictures.
3 - Set correctly the Ilb Maker version
1.0.0.2 Release note:
1 - Open AoW1 ilbs, both header type 3 and 4.
2 - May set scaling mode for each picture of the ilb. Both fixed or proportional scaling allowed.
3 - Move pictures by drag'n'drop
4 - ...and many other little things
5 - I forgot to update the file version, so it appears to be still version 1.0.0.1, however because I cannot recompile it now, I ike more to upload it anyway
1.0.0.1 Release note:
1 - no help incleded (sorry)
2 - doesn't open the ilb (sorry)
but
3 - it works!! (great)
4 - encodes library with Header Type v4 only
5 - encodes image of Subtype 2 or 3 only
6 - creates any type of picture format that is usefull for AoW
7 - much more versatile than AoWCGE (but doesn't manage the campaign)
little tips about use:
1 - Left Area: list of the images that will be put in the ILB (not tested with more than 700 images, but the code should be able to incremend by 600 images is needed). Can add 1 or more images or delete selected ones by commands in context menu or Ins - Del keys
2 - Right-Top Area: setting for selected picture(s). You may set the type and subtype of the picture(s). Subtype 3 allows to specify blending. The hack combobox allows to specify the unknow 'clip_x' field in some picture formats.
3 - Right-Top-Right: displays the original loaded picture and the resized one (transformet to 8bit or 16bit)
4 - Right-Bottom Area: preview pictures of all 8bit and 16bit images
Now the commands available on the toolbar:
1 - Load from folder: load all bitmaps from a single folder. If named like units should be (pippo_Attack.<row>.<n>.bmp) it will assign to 100.. - 200.. - 300.. etc, otherwise will compact to begin
2 - Open Ilb: import images from an existing ilb (if Debug Log Messages are enabled, some exra information will be print while reading the ilb).
3 - Elaborate Images: convert all pictures to target type according to selected 'scale mode' and 'interpolation mode'. Parameters are customizable for each image.
4 - Make ilb: create the ilb, a dilog will popup to choose it's name.
5 - Make batch: select a folder, then it will explore each subfolder to create automatically the ILBs according to default settings.
6 - Default settigs: set the type of autocreated images.
Tips:
1 - the interpolation mode may cause artifacts in the resized image, so try each of them for best result.
2 - open an existing ilb to know the type of images it use.
Posted on 06/18/09 @ 04:54 PM (updated 08/07/09)