Re: Martin Wright's GFX Tools made portable & UPX Compressed
A pure 11/10 rating.
I declare these to be the MOST POWERFUL GFX Tools (paid or free) to have ever EXISTED, up to this date, on a byte4byte level.
Full size of tools mentioned: UPX Compressed/packed, via LZMA method
Tools:
*Can be stand-alone with the dll's in same folder, work on Windows 98 or newer
- Convimx: 132kb
- DXTbmp: 182kb
- iBrowse: 162kb (not really "needed", but a nice to have, image dir info with single file view at a time)
- Show: 165kb (not really "needed", but a nice to have, best functions/options as a viewer, ie per channel etc)
- TView: 181kb (not really "needed", but a nice to have, all images in a dir viewer as thumbs, low on info)
Dll's needed by each:
*Can be savred if all are present in same folder)
- All DLL's & mwgfxcopy.exe: 905kb
Total: 1727kb
- The smallest (and best) convimx is, alone with all dll's, 1038kb (or 1.013672mb)
* Remove ace file support (remove mwace.dll & mwacevb.dll) and thats 957kb
... 957kb for a 8k image to an 8k DXT dds file BC1/BC1a to BC5, with mipmap generation via a Kiaser filter, and a NoHalo filter too boot!
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Small ps note:
In testing:
- up to 8k image support
* DXTBmp will load a 16k image, but auto-resize "working copy" to 4k automaticlly
- view of "component of image" dir thumbs/dir list with details (1 image viewed at a time) or "per image" with advanced tools
-convert (batch too)
- For dds: importantly BC1 (dxt1/dxt1a), bc3/bc5 = up to 8k.
- Full < yes full, alpha/normal map support (DXTBmp & Show)
They "share" the dll's in the dll pack
A pure 11/10 rating.
I declare these to be the MOST POWERFUL GFX Tools (paid or free) to have ever EXISTED, up to this date, on a byte4byte level.