Features

• Open and convert both Windows and Build palette files.
• Easy to use tile browser.
• Set and preview tile animation properties.
• Set and preview tile alignment offsets.
• Import and (batch) export BMP files.
• Insert, delete and (batch) clear tiles, or change their canvas size.
• Create new ART files from scratch.
• View tiles at different scales (1x, 2x, 4x 8x).
• Fast tile rendering.

Usage

You need a palette file for the ART file you want to load. Palettes can be in Windows .PAL format, or Build .DAT format. After loading a palette (it's colors will appear in a bar), you're able to load an art file, or create a new one. When creating a new one, an empty 256-tile file is created. When you have loaded a palette, you're also able to save that palette again. This allows for converting between palette formats.

To quickly select the tile you want to view, you can access the Browser from the "View" menu. In this menu you can also enable the alignment crosshair, or change the rendering scale of the tiles. When you have selected the correct tile, you can use the functions from the "Tile" menu on it:

 Compatibility

The program has been tested with the following games' art files:

• Duke Nukem 3D - OK.
• Powerslave/Exhumed (demo) - OK.
• William Shatner's Tekwar (shareware) - OK.
  
• Shadow Warrior - OK.
• Blood (shareware) - ART file too big (4096 tiles).
  

Of course, it's 100% compatible with EditART as well.

• Make New Art Files
• Load Pallete and Save palleete in Win Format or PaintShop Format
• Save Names.h file from grp file to a seperate file
• Import PCX or BMP
• Extract ANY file from Duke.GRP
• Copy and Paste Art tile images(flawless)
• Adjust offsets
• View and set Art tile animation/set speed and animation type
• Print options
• Insert tiles into Exsisting Grp Files(can't make new grps though)
• Cross wires are availiable
• Save single art files
• Display shows all editart readouts..height, width etc...
• Use External programs
• Some very little Quake pak support.

DeeP has powerful graphical importing and level browsing tools. It's easy to export DUKE (or BLOOD, Shadow Warrior, Witchaven and other Build engine games) graphics for custom internal use.

-View Duke Nukem 3D graphics
-Draw on Duke Nukem 3D graphics and create new .ART slots.
-Edit all aspects of any sprite in 2D mode!
-Export and import Duke Nukem 3D graphics as PCX files.
-View Duke Nukem 3D levels in GRP files.
-Browse directories and preview Duke Nukem 3D levels.
-Print Duke Nukem 3D maps.
-Palette conversion control option.
-Display full detail of Duke Nukem 3D maps (sprites, walls, sectors)
-Wireframe and solid 3D preview
-Display 3D Doom and Duke Nukem 3D maps.
-Change multiple wall textures with a single mouse click!

Main features

• Load/Save: Gif, Tiff, Jpg, Pcx, Bmp, Ico.
• 2 pane view, zoomed and 1:1.
• Downsampling/upsampling bit-depth, dithering, halftone, error diffusion.
• Resampling (smart resizing), cropping, rotating, offseting and flipping images.
• 8-bit palette editor: RGB/HLS ramps, colour cubes/stock palettes, reverse ramps, remapping.
• Clipboard support.
• Alpha blending.
• Basic linear/radial gradient fill.
• Undo que for most tools.
• Conversion of image to C/C++ code.
• Transparency support.
• Invert image.
• Convert to grayscale.
• Brightness/contrast adjust.
• Save/load/flip/rotate the current brush.
• Flood fill.
• Basic drawing primitives.
• Polyline editor.
• Text tool.
• Simple scripting language.
• Basic colour management via Little CMS, does RGB<->RGB on load/save to the internal colour space (sRGB), allows viewing of colour profile details.

An archive of various hacked tools put together including DeluxePaint II Enhanced v3.0, DeluxePaint Animation 1.0 and some DeluxePaint related utilities.
(3DR Used(v2) during development of Duke/ .anm files.)

DeluxePaint is an old Amiga paint program written by Electronic Arts which has been ported over to DOS (well sort of). If you wish to create 8-bit animated graphics in DOS, this is the program for you.
Includes:  play.exe

• Complete selection of painting tools — Draw any shape you want, any way you want.
• Turn any image into a brush. You can rotate, flip, shear, resize, smear, and shade it.
• 7 levels of magnification — Paint in magnified mode if you want. Use variable zoom for detailed editing at the pixel level.
• 3-D perspective — Move and rotate images in full 3-D, automatically.
• Use color cycling and gradient fills to create great special effects.
• Stencils — Protect your designs from the slip of the hand or a bad idea. A stencil masks your image so you can paint "behind" and "in front of" it.
• Use the handy Move Dialog to animate brushes in full 3-D — automatically! Ideal for creating spinning titles for low-cost videos.

Includes:

DP2.ZIP - Deluxe Paint II Enhanced V3.0
dp3da1.zip - Deluxe Paint II Enhanced V3.0 and DP Animate
DPA.ZIP - DP Animate
dpaint2e30.zip - Deluxe Paint II Enhanced V3.0
dpanim10.zip - DP Animate

(with various hacks, you should be able to get one of them to work)
 

-Deluxe Paint IIe in any modex resolution, Supports y resolutions of 256 and 512 (by BArtist/Heretics).

-Emulator for Deluxe Paint for 320x240,320x400 & 320x480+ New keys (by ECLIPSE).

-DeluxePaint II keyboard shortcuts (by Raster/xtatic)

Now Includes: dpapcpl.zip
Deluxe Animator .ANM file player Source Code.
 

you will not have to convert your old animations and you will be able to watch them when ever you like without installing the old software used to generate these files.

Electronics Arts' Deluxe Paint II for MS-DOS animation files uses the .anm extension. During the installation of this codec you have the option to associate the .anm files with Windows Media Player.
 

These files exist in this archive.

ART2BMP .EXE ART -> BMP Converter
ART format has many images and flags for animation in a file. ART2BMP will separate to many files and convert to BMP format. It will use a pallet file. (Default is "PALETTE.DAT") And it create a flag file and a log file too.
ART2BMPE.TXT English manual of ART2BMP
ART2BMPJ.TXT Japanese manual of ART2BMP

BMP2ART .EXE BMP -> ART Converter (256 .BMP)
ART format has many images and flags for animation in a file. BMP2ART will join many BMP files and convert to ART format.
It won't get a palette data. Because ART file doesn't have palette data.
BMP2ARTE.TXT English manual of BMP2ART
BMP2ARTJ.TXT Japanese manual of BMP2ART

PALBMP .EXE New BMP file creater (from PAL file)
This software can make a new BMP file with getting palette from a PAL file. And, It can make a color pattern image file too.
PALBMPE .TXT English manual of PALBMP
PALBMPJ .TXT Japanese manual of PALBMP

PALMAKE .EXE Palette file creater
This software can make a new palette file for BUILD from source palette file.
PALMAKEE.TXT English manual of PALMAKE
PALMAKEJ.TXT Japanese manual of PALMAKE

PALMUCH .EXE Be much palette program
PALMUCH overwrights sorce file palette data by other palette file for
BUILD. And it finds the nearest color to change color index.
PALMUCHE.TXT English manual of PALMUCH
PALMUCHJ.TXT Japanese manual of PALMUCH

ENGLISH .TXT You are reading.
JAPANESE.TXT As same contents as "ENGLISH.TXT" Japanese version.

TRANSPAL.EXE - to create a translucence table to PALETTE.DAT.

 

Hex editing allows modifying PALETTE.DAT and LOOKUP.DAT files used by Build engine to introduce up to 128 palettes and shades. You just edit the color tables in a raster graphics editor, save them to a raw format and then insert raw data into the files. I used this trick when making LNGA mod's palette system. Afterwards I decided to make something fully compatible with conventional Duke maps; I hope that such mod will be useful to the mapping community.

The Extended Color Look-up Table Pack or ExtCLUT mod is a quick project designed to add new entries to the standard set of palettes and improve the translucency preserving compatibility with most Duke maps. See Readme.txt for details; also look over the test map.

Duke's palette with repeating colors highlighted. Since their RGB values are the same, some of them can be overridden to serve as special colors for various effects achievable via the translucency table. The mod reserves eight colors for this purpose.

PalMake will convert a PNG file into a new palette based of the original Palette.dat(for shading and transparency data) and make a new *.DAT file for you.

PalShift will allow you to select ranges of colors and shift their Red, Green or Blue values by a negative or positive amount. You can use it to simply tint colors or change them into new ones. This is also fairly early in developement so it may not be perfect and you might be better off creating your own with the first program. But if you lack decent image editing skills/program it might help you out.

Includes: dukeconv.exe

duke3d.act    
Duke Nukem Standard Palette

realms13.act   
3D Realms Title screen palette (version 1.3D - Yellow + Blue)

realms14.act   
3D Realms Title screen palette (version 1.4 - Brown (yuk!))

title.act   
Duke Nukem Title Screen palette (duke standing on dead guy)

scene1.act   
Palette for anim at end of first episode

• Information at the bottom of the screen on and off.
• Save the current tile to a .PCX file
• Perform a screen capture
• Animate the current tile
• Extract the current .ART file from the .GRP
• Transparency on and off
• Water pallette on and off
• A few other functions
• It has a 4095 tile per .ART file limit (there are usually 256 tiles per .ART file).

• View Duke.grp file
• View Art tile images
• Click on an animation file and a list of all art is shown(can't view though)
• View Con files
• Listen to wav/voc files
• Use External programs
• Imports bitmap Images to Art files
• Import wav/voc and midi files(replace exsisting ones)
• List wasted space in grp
• Clean up wasted space
• Copy and paste
• Rename files in grp

The program inserts your ART where it needs to be so you CAN distribute your new ART without re-distributing 3DR's ART, and it greatly reduces your archive size.

AHEAD.EXE .ART file "header" editor (v1.0) enabling the creation and distribution of new monsters and other new art.
DNA.EXE Archiving utility
DNA20.TXT This file
EXAMPLE.ART Example .ART file created using DNA.EXE
EXAMPLE.INI Example .INI file used with DNA.EXE
EXAMPLE.MAP Example .MAP file (not the greatest)
EXAMPLE.TXT Authoring template for EXAMPLE.MAP (and installation guide)
TDNA.EXE Tile information utility
XDNA.EXE Extracting/Creating utility
Notes: Reads a .MAP file and extracts all the images referenced, and extracts the images back into the .ART files.

• Combine the contents of files TILES000.ART to TILES014.ART into a single file
• Will renumber the tiles in <FILE.ART> given a starting tiles number, and write the changes to <NEW.ART>
• Views .ART image files