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PNG Crop is a small program designed for the purpose of cropping PNG sprites used in OpenTTD 32bpp.

It offers 2 methods for cropping:
* automatic mode - automatically crops as much as possible from the sprite reducing it to its smallest size possible
(like Visual PNG codec crop tool). Alpha tolerance option is included.
* manual mode - manually specify cropping coordinates (top left corner and width/height)

PNG Crop can also crop the sprite masks using the same values used for the actual sprite.

If the sprites contain x_offs and y_offs, PNG Crop will adjust these values accordingly.
License: GPL v2 or later

Special thanks to Zephyris for the idea and initial testing.

Version 0.3.1 released
* fixed offset detection

One minor problem, it seems v0.3 doesn't write the new offset data...

*edit* This also happens when autocrop also makes a change to the size of the sprite.

Uh, looks like the changes I made to the detection code were causing the program to think that there weren't any offsets. That's why it didn't write them.

Fixed it in 0.3.1. Redownload from 1st post.

Checked it on the GRVTS sprites and all seems good, it shaves a good bit of the file size!

It could help to code de bridges easier and faster. Thanks.

PNG crop was very useful to code all latest sprites (papermill, oil wells, coal mines, latest Spain set sprites......) I will use it with airport sprites. But there is a problem: we need to make z1 and z2 sprites, not only z0 sprites. All the l

I suggest a program like PNG crop to make the zoom levels z1 and z2 from a sprite with only z0. My idea is that we need a program to make the z1 and z2 levels from all existing sprites. It would make easier this.

This is the correct way to scale the sprites without problems of subpixel offsets in end images:
http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?p=872954#p872954

Maybe, this sourcecode (writen by me) could be useful. You can use it freely I think that the image doesn't need to be scaled in horizontal and vertical directions at the same time. This would make less complex to add the additional lines needed if the offsets are not 0.

It would be nice if the program adds lines to a file called "Output.txt", adding the offsets used in each sprite, and allowing to convert it into a batch file.

When scaling images, this may be an interesting article to read. It turns out that combining pixels may not be as trivial as one would think.
http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/gamma.html

Interesting article! Did some tests in PaintShop Pro 7.0, and it indeed does scaling wrong (as most other software).

But, using the simple algorithm:

- apply gamma 0.454545
- resize
- apply gamma 2.2

makes everything look good enough.

Built-in support for automatic resizing be excellent...

Zephyris wrote:Built-in support for automatic resizing be excellent...

Now OpenTTD has automatic resizing, but the problem is that It's slow and It doesn't give a great quality, because It only resizes the sprites.

I meant for png crop... lol

Zephyris wrote:I meant for png crop... lol

I'm understand.

Yes, It is a great idea.

maquinista wrote:PNG crop was very useful to code all latest sprites (papermill, oil wells, coal mines, latest Spain set sprites......) I will use it with airport sprites.

Glad you found it useful.

maquinista wrote:But there is a problem: we need to make z1 and z2 sprites, not only z0 sprites. All the l

I suggest a program like PNG crop to make the zoom levels z1 and z2 from a sprite with only z0. My idea is that we need a program to make the z1 and z2 levels from all existing sprites. It would make easier this.

Interesting idea, I'll see if I can make one (unfortunately i am extremely busy these days so my programming time is limited )
Most likely, I'll make it as a separate app as that would require less programming time

maquinista wrote: It would be nice if the program adds lines to a file called "Output.txt", adding the offsets used in each sprite, and allowing to convert it into a batch file.

I'll try to add the logging function this monday if time permits it.

As requested, here is PNG Resize