Graal Previewer
 

Features:
-Multi + Singledirection ganis
-Drag + drop a head/body/sword/shield/gani onto the frame and it'll update.
-Hit save in your image editing program and it'll automatically update in the animation viewer.
-Shields are properly scaled + placed on the character. (Be careful which ganis you use, the iPhone versions place the shield in the character's left hand when facing down, which can affect the results, as the PC version normally places the shield in the right hand when facing down. The program starts with the iPhone idle animation by default.)
-Hats.

http://i.imgur.com/aefgO.gif

This program is mostly to facilitate artists making heads + bodies that want to be able to preview their results in realtime without the hassle of starting up the editor or something stupid like that

It's attached.

EDIT: Attached source.

this would be so usefull, but if u want the avatar on the side to be walking, while previewing, u have to do that to all the different angles :)

Lies.

oh ya, i didnt read the 'its attached' part

oops. I didn't attach it. Hold on, I'll add support for multi-directional viewing as Kiko suggested real quick and then reupload it.

EDIT:

http://i.imgur.com/OBpKV.gif

Added and fixed link.

Nice work.

Thanks, mate. Added the source code to the OP.

Will it run on a Mac?

Unfortunately not. I might be able to make a platform-agnostic version using Mono, but right now it uses p/invoke functions from SFML.NET to render everything. I think I can move it over to Mono-compliant stuff fairly easily, though, so I'll try and do that when I get a chance.

tl;dr, not in it's current state, but I can probably modify it to run on Mono for a Mac with minimal effort.

You shouldn't use Macs, anyways.

Would you be able to add support for custom sprites? Maybe a predefined list of custom sprites (GK, G2K1, etc.). I'd love it for use with my own sprites that have been brought into daylight once again.

You can use any gani you'd like. You just have to drop the images into the images folder and it'll load them up. Do you mean stuff like setting attributes of the gani or updating non-head/body/whatever images in realtime in a similar manner?

sweet

Ideally support for setting attributes. Our character ganis uses attributes 1-10 to account for head, torso, arms, legs, hair, hat, belt, boots, cloak and pauldrons. If somehow your program could account for that, it'd be quite amazing, but I guess it steps more into the turf of a gani editor.

They look pretty.

looks like you've one upped Gunderak's viewer

Gunderaks gunna be sad when he sees this, oh boy!

I can do that no problem. I'll do it tomorrow afternoon during one of my classes.

http://i45.tinypic.com/fdr3eu.png

Is there any reason in particular as to why my head isn't working? This is the original file for my head, but it isn't loading properly on the viewer.

The only way it can differentiate between image types is by dimensions. It looks like it's trying to load your head as a shield. The dimensions for a head should be 32x560. Anything that's not a known dimension (head, body, hat, or sword) is assumed to be a shield when you drag and drop it in.

It is 32x560, and it won't load any other heads. I've tried re-downloading it also. :dazed:

Can you send me one or two images that won't work? And the head you tried to load in the screenshot.

Sure, I'll private message you.

Any progress to that? :o

I forgot about it. I'll do it tomorrow.

Well, you're paying $1,000 for that prettiness alone.

I downloaded this! LOVE IT. Perfect for making customs :D
Edit: Nvrm I got the one from graaldepot people where talking about, this one looks better though 0.0

Updated the gani viewer to support this.

http://i.imgur.com/9yvM6.png

That's the best way I could think of updating attributes.

Added:
-Attribute support
-DEFAULTHEAD, DEFAULTBODY, DEFAULTSHIELD, DEFAULTSWORD, and DEFAULTATTR support.
-Fixed issue where heads loaded as shields.

If you don't feel like dragging and dropping every time you load up the gani, use DEFAULTATTR in the gani file and drop the images in the images folder, I added support for default stuff as defined in the gani file.

Update is attached to the OP. I'd appreciate it if you could confirm that this behaviour works as expected in both loading/rendering and automatic updating when you save the file.

EDIT: Nevermind, I'll put the update here. My edit button disappeared on the OP, kind of lame.

Would be nice if you did the platform agnostic thing. Mac users cant use the level editor or the graalshop, so we really need this..

Maybe if I get a chance tomorrow I'll rewrite it to be Mono-compatible.

Awesome, thanks man, that's gonna be a really helpful tool. :)

Now, you should totally take it upon you to fix/finish Gonstruct too!

Man, now is your time to shine, Java! But alas I am lazy. And busy.

It doesn't seem to like my ganis.

Mmm, ye ol' index out of range error. Lovely stuff.

It's because you have a DEFAULTHEAD setting without anything following it. Here's a patched version that checks for that.

Thanks! :)

Would you be willing to add a way to save defined attributes? Would be very helpful, but chances are I'm the only one even remotely interested in such a feature.

You could just use the DEFAULTATTR stuff in the file. If you can give me a reason as to why DEFAULTATTR wouldn't be suited for what you want to do, I can find the time to add that. Wouldn't be difficult.

I hadn't noticed that it loaded the DEFAULTATTR stuff. Apparently that's because the program thought I would've put them in the ../images/ folder. Is it possible to make it scan all subfolders for the location of images instead?

Yeah. I hadn't thought of making it run out of the Graal folder. I'll allow the user to specify a folder for his Graal installation by the end of the night.

Updated.

Added:
-Can run out of your Graal folder to automatically load images. Drop the GraalViewerRev5 folder in the same directory that holds Graal.exe.

Some images aren't loading properly, namely some GIF images and some old, 4-bit PNG's (Only a few images are actually 4-bit, mostly the default Graal head and body, as they're so damn old) remain unsupported.

Can someone update the OP for me?

Awesome! +repped.

Great work :) Would it be possible to add functionality so it can view ganis which contain particle effects?

Nope, that'd require me to parse GS2 source and also reverse engineer all the particle related functions that Graal has, AKA way too much work.

Thought so :P It's a really nice tool anyway though!

Great name, you named it GraalViewer....
Seriously.

Welp, here's the flamewar, kids.
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e1...ndHereWeGo.gif

virus alert-

wow the source is even attached. no malicious code, hrurrr. speaking of, gunderak's mad that i named it something similar or whatever, but this guy's digging through the source to rip out all my nice features and put it in his ****ey tool

shame, shame, shame

I don't want your crappy code.