Is there a FreeImage Module?
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| I know about a few B3D/BPlus wrappers/decls but I'm not aware of a module for BlitzMax. There's really no sense me writing one if only already exists, but a forum search didn't show anything up so I figured I'd better ask. |
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| No, but I'm pondering writing a DevIL module if that would help any. |
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| Noel, it would be cool to have a DevIL module for BlitzMax. |
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| I thought BMax used FreeImage "in the background" to support some of it's graphics formats, such as .png? Don't know what DevIL is, but more support is better than none! Russell |
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| Russell: http://openil.sourceforge.net/ That's it. It was previously known as OpenIL (open image library), but the name was changed. The formats it can load right off the bat are, according to its features page: .bmp .cut .dcx .dds .ico .gif .jpg .lbm .lif .mdl .pcd .pcx .pic .png .pnm .psd .psp .raw .sgi .tga .tif .wal .act .pal .hdr And those it can save... .bmp .dds .jpg .pcx .png .pnm .raw .sgi .tga .tif .pal .hdr However, it is licensed under the LGPL, so you'll have to use a shared library in order to avoid the viral nature of the GPL and its slightly less evil offspring: the LGPL. |
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| I thought BMax used FreeImage "in the background" to support some of it's graphics formats, such as .png? Doesn't look like it to me. To me, it looks like they just used a couple of libs that FreeImage uses as well, but either way BMax doesn't implement any of the additional formats I wanted to support. Noel: A devIL/openIL module would be great. Sure would save time manually converting textures to DDS everytime if I could have my tools export directly to DDS. |
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