Once again, we are proud to announce the fourth release of the 0.3.x series. This update is an improvement over KonsolScript 0.3.110724 release. The newly introduced way of exporting PNG with magenta-transparency isn’t intuitive enough for artists to be a work-around for the PNG-loading problem found under Windows 7. To properly fix the problem, the underlying Blitting function (Multiput) was improved.
You can once again ignore what color you have used in the transparent area of your image. What’s more is that Alpha channel of 32 bits-per-pixel images is now fully employed. Meaning, the transparency of each pixel is need-not be at value 0. Even transparency values of 1 to 254 is now being blitted with its corresponding alpha value.
Just how important is this? Well, I for one has been longing for such capability, which was previously available only to Quixie_cairo. This means that I can already use my favorite vector authoring software, Inkscape, to create game sprites without facing the problem of cleaning the non-0 transparent pixels of the produced sprites with Gimp.
Available downloads are installers for Ubuntu and Windows. Again, Ubuntu 10.04/10.10 users should have no problem installing it but 11.04 users will have to install it via terminal.
sudo dpkg -i quixie_0.3.110904_i386.deb
Like always this is kind of a preview release so if you find bugs, please report it to help us fix them.
~creek23
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