Afx Image is a PC program, that creates Images for the AFX from BMPs or JPEGs
It's features are:
- it can load BMPs and JPEGs
- supports both BW and Grey scale mode (linear)
- supports dithering up to 15 levels (you may disable dithering, however)
- Images loaded needn't to be BW or Grey, but may also be true color. The program converts it automatically to grey scales, and combined with dithering, AFX Image is ideal for converting Fotos into AFX format for example, thus
- You can change contrast and lightning settings for destination image, so that the produced image for AFX looks the best
- Supports one or multiple background transparency masks (choose wich color shall be background; it's extracted then, and when drawing the image at the AFX later, background will be transparent)
- it supports tiles: You can cut one single image into up to 255 tiles automatically by entering tile dimensions
- header format also supported (you can disable it, however). When disabling, you can use the produced AFX images with every common graphics engines for AFX calculators. When enabling, you can use it with the special AfxGfx sprite routines
- output formats supported are: Assembler source code, C/C++ source code, Pascal Source code, binary files and Add - In. Selecting Add - In, the image will be integrated into an image viewer template, that you can install to you calc directly
Note:
The Afx Image program (this beta version at least) also is a bit out of date already, as I'm working on the successor version at the moment (that's also why it comes without a doc), and it has problems with Win9x in some points (XP works fine, however, 2k and NT not tested).
Additional functions the successor version will have are:
- not only 2 and 3, but also 5 and 2^n color support
- supports of both linear and column graphics mode
- creation of images not only for AFX, but for CFX as well
- support of RLE compressed images to save valuable memory
- and some other improvements
- I probably also will include an image animator, as the new AfxGfx version will support animated images as well
Of course, this version will come with a doc later.
Have fun with it!
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You should now, that the AfxGfx version I released in the AfxTP package supports images also with headers, that's why you have an "write header" output option in my image creator. The AfxGfx successor version I'm working on at the moment will have too, but the header formats will be incompatible.
The Header format the AfxGfx successor version implements will be the same the AFX image successor version supports then
