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- Program Name: Wally
- Version: 1.36B
- Date: 3/23/99
- Authors: Ty Matthews (ty@wwa.com)
- Neal White III (nwhite@softblox.com)
-
- Purpose: Program to manipulate game texture files, including Quake2
- and Half-Life. Allows for enhanced editing, viewing,
- BMP/PCX/MIP import/export, setting of texture flags & contents,
- browsing of a directory, clipboard cut/copy/paste, and on and
- on. Allows for new creation, and loading of existing textures.
- For a more detailed list, check the revision history or the
- FAQ page on our site.
-
- Compiler: Visual C++ 5.0
-
- Where to Get: http://www.telefragged.com/wally
-
- Misc: Wally is and always will be freeware. And as always
- per the standard legal rhetoric, this program is given AS-IS.
- No fitness of merchantibility is either given or implied. If
- something disastrous happens to your machine, I'd feel really
- bad, but I cannot be held liable. By running this program,
- you agree to the terms set forth herein.
-
- Usage: Unzip into a directory, and run Wally.exe. Everything is
- self-contained. Registry settings are made into the
- following key:
-
- "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Team BDP\Wally"
-
- Files Included:
- Wally.exe TheApp!
- Wally.txt You're reading it :)
- Wally.hlp Help File
- Wally.cnt Another Help-related file
- q2pal.act Quake2 palette for PhotoShop
- q2pal.pal Quake2 palette for PaintShop Pro
- q2pal.lmp Quake2 palette for Wally
- q1pal.lmp Quake1 palette for Wally (used for import of MIP files)
-
- Custom Palettes included:
- Standard.pal, rainbow.pal, pastels.pal, metalic.pal, max.pal,
- grays.pal, earth.pal, and blend.pal
-
- Tutorial: Check out the web sites given in "Where to get"
-
- Credits and Acknowledgements:
-
- Id Software... duh. Team BDP for just being the best damn
- TC group on the planet. To ADarcJedi, Ozric, and Talon:
- thanks for putting up with my crap during our all-nighter
- ICQ meetings. Thanks to Neal White III for coming
- aboard and straightening me out :) Mosquito from Quake2.com,
- for painting the awesome splash screen and art. Tom Cleghorn
- for doing up the Help file and tutorial stuff. Aaron
- Stackpole for pointing out the goofy palette file to me, and
- beta testing. Q11 for beta testing and various bug
- reporting/enhancement suggestions. Mike, Jeff Lane,
- and Jim Nobles, thanks for testing this baby!
-
- To anyone I might have missed: sorry!
-
- Revision History:
-
- 0.7 (2/2/1998):
- First public release of Wally
-
- 0.8 (2/16/1998):
- Added some cool stuff:
- - ClipBoard paste
- - PCX import
- - Support for JASC .pal files
- - Wally Options menu
- - Texture pop-up dialog
- - Persistent settings
-
- And fixed others:
- - Fixed texture flags
- - Fixed explorer-type launching
-
- 0.81 (2/23/1998):
- New/Improved:
- - ReMipDeluxe has been implemented :)
- - Added Paste As New Texture
- - Added Drag-n-Drop support for Wally shortcut
-
- 0.90 (3/14/1998):
- Bug Fixes:
- - Draw Tiled
- - Drawing coords bug when scrolled
- - Drawing tools draw connected lines
-
- New/Improved:
- - Undo/Redo up to 50 items
- - Paintbrush
- - Eraser
- - Darken
- - Lighten
- - Scratch
- - Bullet Holes
- - Brush width
- - Brush shape
- - Brush intensity
- - Texture browsing
- - 24bit BMP support
- - 24bit clipboard pasting
- - Quake1 MIP file support
- - Changed File...Import to File...Convert
- - View of all four sub-mips at once
- - Improved drawing code
- - Better drag-n-drop support to Wally icon/screen
-
-
- 1.00 (4/13/1998):
- Bug Fixes:
- - Fixed always too dark scratch
- - Fixed lighten/darken/tint tools after Edit...Paste
- - Fixed browse for directory
-
- New/Improved:
- - Flood fill
- - Big cursor for drawing tools
- - Constraining tool (vertical/horizontal)
- - Pattern paint
- - Added some tool widths (4, 6, and 8)
- - Copy to clipboard, copy to clipboard tiled
- - Mirror, flip, and rotate (left/right, 90-180-270 degrees)
- - Three blend filters (light, medium, heavy)
- - Spray paint tool
- - Color palette toolbar
- - Color Replacer tool
- - Spray Color Replacer
- - 24-bit PCX import
- - Added export of BMP and PCX format
- - Moved multiple options dialog boxes into one
- - Preset texture directory option
-
- 1.01 (4/23/1998):
- Bug Fixes:
- - Fixed wrong sub-mip view bug
- - Fixed cancelling of Browse Directory
-
- New/Improved:
- - Added multiple-file selection for File|Convert
-
- 1.09 (6/10/98): (Public Beta)
- Bug Fixes:
- - Fixed Flood Fill missing areas
- - Fixed unnecessary flashing with Undo/Redo
- - Fixed longer than 32-character filename/directory bug
-
- New/Improved:
- - Line tool
- - Connected Lines tool (PolyLine)
- - Ray Lines tool
- - Added better support for non-Q2 palettes
- - Changed Browse Folder selection to include persistence
-
- 1.10 (7/03/98):
- New/Improved:
- - Rectangle drawing tool
- - Add Noise Filter
- - Brightness/Contrast Filter
- - Improved Blend Filter
- - Improved Filter interfaces
- - User-settable maximum number of Undo levels
- - Auto-update of thumbnail image for Browse view
-
- 1.20 (08/12/98):
- New/Improved:
- - Emboss filter
- - Edge Detect filter
- - Marble Procedural Texture Generator
- - Better PCX export routine
- - Better support for custom palettes, and a big collection of some nice ones
-
- 1.29 (12/31/98):
- New/Improved:
- - Gamma-correction
- - Mirror tool
- - Tiled marble tool
- - Diffuse filter
- - Rivet tool
- - Much improved custom palette editing
- - Improved drag/drop support
- - Batch conversion
- - Texture shift
- - Improved GUI tools
- - User-definable number of undo levels
- - Export to 24-bit or 8-bit option
- - Half-Life support (WAD3 files)
- - Gaussian option for AddNoise filter
- - Auto-zoom the view
- - Much improved 24-bit to 8-bit palette reduction
- - Sharpen filter
- - Offset filter
-
- Bug Fixes:
- - Amount Combo bug
- - Bullet hole access violation bug
- - 24-bit BMP export bug
- - 8-bit BMP import bug with PhotoShop files
-
- 1.30 (1/17/99):
- Bug Fixes:
- - PCX header bug with Corel PhotoPaint images
-
- 1.31 (1/21/99):
- New/Improved:
- - Resize filter!
- - Enhanced Add Noise filter
- - Edit/Load/Save Palette options
- - Color translate feature
-
- 1.32 (1/26/99):
- New/Improved:
- - Most filters converted to 24-bit internally
- - Selection tool!
- - Improved status bar display to include additional info
- - Undo/redo memory compression (conserves RAM)
-
- 1.34 (1/28/99):
- Bug Fixes:
- - Memory compression bug
- - Flashing sub-mip bug
-
-
- 1.34 (2/12/99):
- New/Improved:
- - Most recently used filters shortcut
- - Fine/coarse grid!
- - Reduce colors filter
- - Quake1 MIP and WAD2 full support
-
- Bug Fixes:
- - Undo/redo memory compression bug
- - Initial startup directory bug with custom palettes
-
- 1.34C (2/17/99):
- Bug Fixes:
- - New Half-Life textures not saved properly to WAD
- - Export of images from WAD2 failing
- - Zooming/grid bug, and improved drawing code
- - Loading custom Q2 palette not taking effect properly
- - ReMip bug with multiple threads
-
- 1.35B (2/23/99):
- New/Improved:
- - Cool new about box, with hotlinks to our web site
- - Updated tool subsystem
- - Filter for the list of images in a package file
- - Drag and drop between package files
- - TGA support
- - New Quake1/Quake2 palette options page; more robust support for
- custom palettes.
- - Batch conversion now will allow you to create any supported image type
-
- Bug Fixes:
- - Paste bug with "maintain indexes" palette option
- - Minor gamma status bar bug
-
-