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Warmonger · Post by **Warmonger** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 7:27 am

I've got a sequence of 90 TIFF files (with alpha) for a SE knob, and I'm at a loss trying to find software that can convert it to a single PNG for SE. I've actually done this before, but I can't find the program (or programs) I used before to do this. What do you guys use?

dx-9 · Post by **dx-9** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 8:18 am

adobe photoshop! with RLH knobrender

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 8:29 am

90 frames? Damn!

Warmonger · Post by **Warmonger** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 8:34 am

I was kinda looking for more specific (and yes, free) software for this purpose. The closest I've found is IrfanView, but it doesn't handle transparency at all, so that's pretty much out of the question.

Warmonger · Post by **Warmonger** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 8:38 am

This is just for the purpose of my own learning, not for use in an actual SE creation, so I'm not really worried about the excessive memory usage of a 90 frame, 256*256 knob.

Warmonger · Post by **Warmonger** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 10:19 am

Well, I got it, but with a little more use of the command prompt than I'd like.

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for %i in (knob*.tif) do convert %i %~ni.png
convert knob*.png -append out.png

convert is one of the tools included with ImageMagick. File format conversion is just the tip of the iceberg with this, and luckily, the append option does exactly what I need it to.

So I guess my search is over. Now if I can just remember the syntax of that damn Windows command prompt FOR loop...

dx-9 · Post by **dx-9** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 10:24 am

why transparency??!

Warmonger · Post by **Warmonger** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 10:43 am

Well, which one would be better in a program?

or

?

Err, I almost forgot that IE doesn't display PNG's correctly, so if you're using it, you probably won't see my point.

quincy · Post by **quincy** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 10:57 am

This might be a bit too techy for some, but if you have any minor programming knowledge you could write a small program to stitch them together, i did it in blitz basic ages ago but any lanuage that can load images (you might need to change format) would be able to do this fairly simply.

Just a thought anyway.

Warmonger · Post by **Warmonger** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 11:00 am

RTFT (Read The f**king Thread).

quincy · Post by **quincy** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 11:10 am

Warmonger wrote:RTFT (Read The f**king Thread).

you said this

What do you guys use?

I answered

ZioKiller · Post by **ZioKiller** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 11:17 am

There's nothing better than IrfanView (free) for converting, cropping, resizing and batch processing.
TrentStitch is good for making one tall image.

Warmonger · Post by **Warmonger** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 11:21 am

Well, the thought of making a program did cross my mind, but why re-invent the wheel? Especially when I would have probably used the ImageMagick C++ API to do the file loading/writing anyway. So for now I'll just use the convert utility to do it, since it works exactly how I want. If I really need to do this more than a couple more times, I'll make a tiny batch file.

I must say, I'm surprised I couldn't find a free app specifically for this purpose. There are some simple stitching programs, but none that are free and properly transfer a TIFF's or BMP's alpha channel over to a PNG. At least, I haven't found any yet.

edit: Yeah, I tried both IrfanView and TrentStitch, and my last paragraph still holds.

Shifrin · Post by **Shifrin** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 10:30 pm

Could be guilty of not reading this thread properly

but Tobybear released some great gfx utils :-

http://www.tobybear.de/p_other.html

In particular StitchStudio!

Shif.

steveholt · Post by **steveholt** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 10:40 pm

TrentStitch is good for making one tall image.

Not with transparency. Use Pngstitch.

Steve

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