Would anyone be butthurt if I release a tool here to convert image files (like .PNG) to Starbound .json drawables format? Basically, image goes in, text you paste into StarCheat comes out. I know they took it down on Chucklefish because of a certain group of eliti-.. I mean, because of concerns that someone could use it to make a goatse sword and show everyone goatse. So should I release it here, or should this be a "hush-hush PM only" sort of thing?
We can always punish people for abusing the tool, so long as people take screenshots and report abusers. EDIT: I'm a fan of open source software and the sharing of software for the betterment of everyone. There'll always be abusers, but at least in this domain, we can take care of them.
Your tool would output scaled and layered drawables like in that technicolor ship hull post you made a while back, yes? I'm very curious about how you approached that problem. I've written a quick and dirty script that cuts the number of drawables needed in about half for most my custom sprites. If people would like to see my source code, I'd be happy to share too, I just need to investigate a little bug before I can release it publicly.
I'm glad someone figured it out! I approached it a lot of times! I eventually even went to Stack Overflow to try and find "the" optimal solution, but I don't think that turned out so well (I can't remember what happened - I think I implemented one of the solutions offered, but then it didn't work so I spent a week trying to debug it and eventually gave up and used a more naive solution). https://github.com/Narks/SBImageConverter This is my git repo, but I do not think it is up to date (and the actual project is buried somewhere in my backups - I had to wipe the machine the project was on). If I recall correctly, I used not only the ?crop directive (to get rectangles), but also exploited it to get 45 degree diagonal lines and right-angled triangles of various sizes. edit: tl;dr its a mess at the moment That repo is not quite set up for creating weapon sprites, though - it's set up to create something else (which I'm not going to explain ). I'll update it and release a tool that the layman can understand when I've made more progress on my other project.
