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Toksisitee

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Open source multipurpose tool used in creating maps for Populous: The Beginning.

This repository has been made to improve upon ALACN's original work by fixing bugs, adding quality of life updates, or completely new features. There are multiple forks of the original project out there, but this is the most up-to-date repository.

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New Features​

  • Network support over UDP
  • 8 players support (beta only)
  • Copy, rotate and paste land with objects (CTRL + C, CTRL + V)
  • Copying the entire map (CTRL + A)
  • Importing maps (land) over an existing map
  • Undo/redo for landscape and/or objects changes
  • Many tools that automate tasks
  • Map rotation (R)
  • Shifting entire map to the left/right (SHIFT + PLUS/MINUS)
  • New objects such as "Forbidden" or "Decorations" category
  • Levl3 (beta) format support
  • New Landscape brushes
  • Reset selected markers with DELETE button
  • Ability to quickly place markers (CTRL + LMB)
  • Quick duplicate for objects (N key)
  • General fixes
  • Much more CPU usage friendly
  • More QoL features

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Editor

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Toksisitee

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PopTextureEditor is a multipurpose tool that simplifies texture modding for Populous: The Beginning by doing all the hard work for you, but most importantly in a way that closely replicates Bullfrog's original work. You may preview, export or generate certain data files.

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Editor Editor

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Toksisitee

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Open source Sprite Viewer & Editor tool written in C++/CLI for the game Populous: The Beginning.

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Features​

  • Open banks:
    • Preview scaled sprites (slider) with nearest-neighbor interpolation.
    • Export sprites as bitmaps (individually or in bulk).
    • View offset, index, width, height and raw data of each sprite.
  • Create banks:
    • From bitmaps of any width & height.
    • Append or insert to an "existing" bank.
    • Modify original sprites width & height.
  • Color Palette:
    • Preview color palette.
    • Adjustable color key.
    • Export to bitmap format.
  • Pixel Inspector; hover over an image and a tooltip will appear showing the highlighted pixel's values:
    • Position (current width & height).
    • RGB values.
    • Index in the color palette.
    • Right click to copy RGB values.
  • Sprite Editor:
    • 2 color slots (right/left click).
    • Brush mode; paint individual pixels (r/l click).
    • Color pick mode; copy RGB values from highlighted pixel (r/l click).
    • CTRL + Z (undo).
    • CTRL + Y (redo).
    • Key B (brush mode).
    • Key Y (color pick mode).
  • Sprite Sheet Manager:
    • Generate sheets from frames.
    • Parse & Split sheets to individual frames.

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Editor

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Toksisitee

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Open source Sound Editor tool written in C++ for the game Populous: The Beginning.

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Features​

  • Open SDT banks

    • Sound Banks: Soundd2.SDT contains the grunts of followers, ambient noises, SFX sounds, etc.
    • Drum Banks: PopDrum***.SDT files contain the rhythmic drums.
    • Music Banks: PopDrones22.SDT contains the game music.

  • Preview Sounds

    • Double click any sound entry to listen to the contents.

  • Extract SDT contents

    • Sound and drum banks contents can be exported as WAV files.
    • Music bank contents can be exported as MP2 files.

  • Create SDT banks

    • Create new Sound and Drum SDT banks made of your own sounds.
    • TODO: music bank creation is only half-finished.

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Editor

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Toksisitee

Key remapper for Populous: The Beginning. PopKeyRemapper allows you to remap any action to a different key, including Shift/Alt/Control key modifiers. It only works with the classic (1.03) game version, including online via the MatchMaker.

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