HumanStuff Easy Builder Workshop & Texture Library - Add- on Dev Thread

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HumanStuff Easy Builder Workshop & Texture Library

Forgive the TRR image of main menu, I need to film my own. But same deal. Sorry @HaArLiNsH (who made the 2 "technoColor" TRR images, I made into animated WebP's, & have borrowed for prehaps a week...busy busy lol)

MAIN RELEASE THREAD is here:

 

Consists of a pre-made, and image file library populated, "directory structure" to stream line your work with the suggested FREE tools. AKA: NOT for GameData Folder!
* Template folder still under construction. Designed to de droped on the "root" of a drive (like: C:/HumanStuff_EasyBuilderWorkshop/..   Or "D:/" or what ever drive) for use with supplied ".bat" file, Notepad++ & cmder "Quick run commands" (for cmd line tools)

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    NEWEST RELEASE INSTRUCTIONS/BLAH-BLAH

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 FORGIVE COLOR SIZE, MAJOR CHANGES TO PACK WITH IMPORTANT INFO "HIGHLIGHTED"

You can now go from player to self or community modder with ease! 

HumanStuff Easy Builder Workshop & Texture Library v1.1.1 - "Raster", is LIVE Size: 2.4Gb fully zipped "ZIP" archive of 7z's

Fully "unzipped" size: 7.16Gb, fully "installed" + "Library + WORKBIN" (Full pack install) size: Approximately 29.4Gb (7.24Gb Win8.1, 4224mb PAGE FILE, 5.5Gb Library, 12.5GB tools, with unneeded tool/addons installers deleted)

FITS ON A "32GB NAND FLASH SSD" (REALLY 31224MB OR 30.4GB) WITH 1.1GB TO "SPARE" AFTER PAGE FILE (PAGE FILE/FILE CACHE SET TO "SAFE CLEAR" at 1.05Gb,  along with TEMP FILE MAX OF 0.255GB SET TO "SAFE AUTO CLEAN" AT 0.25Gb), I work off a "SD Express 3.1, 1x" 985mb read/write SD Card (set to fixed)  for "D:/" drive

Forgive screenshot age: Ill take newer 1

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Main zip is a "ultra" setting "M$ type zip", Windows XP could open it, 7z support required (They are Format: 7z: LZMA2 on Ultra, Dictionary: 1536mb, Word size: 274, Block: Solid) for internal 7z's

THE WORK THIS TOOK! IT WAS LIKE 22 HOURS STRAIGHT!

DO NOT MOVE FOLDERS/FILES IN "WORKBIN" FOLDER AFTER YOU MOVE THE MAIN "HumanStuff_EasyBuilderWorkshop" FOLDER TO THE ROOT OF A DRIVE

• ROOT = C:\ OR D:\ OR H:\ ETC, EXAMPLE: C:\HumanStuff_EasyBuilderWorkshop\WORKBIN
• THE "*.bat" FILES ARE DESIGNED TO WORK AS FOLDERS ARE "BUILT". ONLY ADD, MOVE DELETE IMAGES TO CONVERT TO DDS AND THE RESULTING DDS FILES.
• MOVING OR RENAMIG THE FOLDERS WILL BREAK THE "EASY" PART OF THE PACK! AND THE "*.bat" WILL REMAKE THE FOLDERS, THEY INTERACT WITH, WHEN RUN

Change Log # //HumanStuff_EasyBuilderWorkshop//

1.1.1

• - NUMBERED INSTALL ORDER FOR TOOLS, PLEASE FOLLOW THAT ORDER! (SEE PICS)
• -FULL "Easy Builder Workshop" Directory (aka: Folder) structure built.
• - ALL *.dds FILES REMOVED
• - ADDED EXR SUPPORT TO TEXCONV CMD LINE TOOL & GUI TOOL!
• - Custom BAT FILES for TexConv for non-CLI accustom users, v.flip is DEFAULT!
• - Auto installer added for all users, great for PROs, LIFESAVER to the learner
• - ALL BUNDLEWARE REMOVED, AV SCANNED LOCAL AND ONLINE, MD5 CHECKED, ALL FIXED PRE-DONE (Ceasium 2 alpha, TexConv CMD/GUI TOOLS, VARIOUS OTHERS, PLUGINS UPDATED)
• - ALL CODECS, LINKS TO RUN TIMES, PLUGINS ETC ARE AS NEW AS TIME OF PACKING (ALWAYS CHECK FOR UPDATES, WEEKLY LIKE SUNDAY AFTERNOON)
• - WINDOWS 64BIT PREVIOUS TO 7 REQUIRE ADDITIONAL RUN TIMES. ASK ME
• - WINDOWS 32BIT PREVIOUS TO & INCLUDING 8.1/10 REQUIRE ADDITIONAL RUN TIMES. ASK ME
• - WINDOWS 32BIT & 64BIT PREVIOUS TO VISTA/7 (READ: 2000/XP, NO MS STORE etc) REQUIRE A SPECIAL PRE-MADE INSTALL IMAGE/DISC/USB & ALTERNATIVE TOOL INSTALLS *ASK ME
• ^*- YOU MUST SUPPLY YOUR OWN COA (KEY) - OR HAVE DOWNGRADE RIGHTS FROM OWNED COA (KEY)
• Out of convention with other mods: I will be including all "READ ME USER" intended Docs to RTF (rich text format, as an 8088 powered PC PC-XT or XT running DOS 3.0 & Windows 1.0 from 1985 can even open them with "MS Write")
• Out of convention with other mods: I will be including all "ADVANCED USER TUTORIALS" as both RFT's & PDF's in Text, Plus Video versions in WMV at "ED" 576p25 (at 16:9, 1024x576p25 & at 4:3, 768x576p25, It will look magical!) 
• VIDEOS: Will be hosted by me on Google drive (it can play them direct!), for download or viewing due to size. NEW linux users...message me for a player with good WMV support, oddly Quicktime is "ok" for both Mac & Linux users to view them.
  • The method: I used a short video clip, in:

 

Table 1: MY PC "CRUSHING" small video of my wife and cat. Spoiled: (ps i totally had to copy past a "box" in to fill in: how do i make a good 1)

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Format	Codec	file Size	Quality	Time to crush (min:sec.)
good	1 region no	to big! 4 max	I want "good+"!	I want under 20:00 (But over 9:59)
.avi	NTSC DV	37.7Mb	Excellent	:8.7
old	works	GOOD	blah	wow
.f4v	Match Source	2.29Mb	Fair	:5.1
GOOD	works	Ok	Good	blah
H.264	Match Source (Keyframe 30)	5.31 Mb	Good	:14.1
ODD	works	better	blah	wow
QuickTime	H.264 (keyframe 30)	4.21 Mb	Fair	:7.8
ODD, but better
its flv	works	GOOD	BLAH
Sorenson Flash	Flv (720)	2.21Mb	Fair	1:04.6 over 1 hour
S-CLASS FOUND!
PERFECT!	GOOD FOR BIG OR SMALL	NICE!!	ALRIGHT!
Squeeze wmv	Custom 576p/25p	2.71Mb	Good-very good	:11.2 < PERFECT!
MAYBE?	MAYBE	MAYBE	MAYBE
Windows Media	Custom 600p/30p	2.59Mb	Very Good	:20.75 < Bit Long, but 30FPS
Conclusion: Squeeze wmv, 576P at 25FPS 4:3 & 16:9, Videos look good but are "small", WMV 9 codec for A/V, Bitrate: 3 Mbps, 25 fps, test sized at 720x576p

 

 

 

Remarks on TexConv CMD & GUI tools: (Additions pre-done, this is not only permitted in EULA, it is suggested until they are default in next releases)

• When loading BMP files, if the WIC codec fails to load the image, the texconv tool will check to see if it's an Extended BMP containing DXT1, DXT3, or DXT5 compressed data. The tool does not support writing Extended BMP files. Typically you need to use -vflip with such files as well.
• PRE-Done: Support for OpenEXR (EXR) can be added to the texconv utility. Uncomment #define USE_OPENEXR in the source, and add the DirectXTex auxiliary module to the project. See Adding OpenEXR for more details including building the OpenEXR library. This adds exr as an option for -ft.

INPUT file-type: The file type for the INPUT texture. Use one of the following. The default value is *.*.

• bmp: Windows BMP
• jpg, jpeg: Joint Photographic Experts Group
• png: Portable Network Graphics
• dds: DirectDraw Surface (Direct3D texture file format)
• tga: Truevision Graphics Adapter
• hdr: Radiance RGBE
• tif, tiff: Tagged Image File Format
• wdp, hdp, jxr: Windows Media Photo
• ppm, pfm: Portable PixMap, Portable FloatMap (Netpbm)
• exr OpenEXR
• or a WIC-supported format (bmp, jpg, png, jxr, etc.).

OUTPUT file-type: The file type for the OUTPUT texture. Use one of the following. The default value is *.dds.

• bmp: Windows BMP
• jpg, jpeg: Joint Photographic Experts Group
• png: Portable Network Graphics
• dds: DirectDraw Surface (Direct3D texture file format)
• tga: Truevision Graphics Adapter
• hdr: Radiance RGBE
• tif, tiff: Tagged Image File Format
• wdp, hdp, jxr: Windows Media Photo
• ppm, pfm: Portable PixMap, Portable FloatMap (Netpbm)
• exr OpenEXR

ADDITIONAL OPEN DOMAIN CREDITS: Pandoc.org, Rodz Labs, Holger Dammertz, xNormal.org, K. Kolasinski, Voidtools (David Carpenter), typora.io, J. Rathlev, IEAP, Uni-Kiel, LIGHTNING UK! XnSoft, Irfan Skiljan, BoltBit,, Mankua Software, Paint.NET., krita.org, BinomialLLC, MS Texconv, OpenEXR, zlib, Meso, u7angel, woei, DarthAazard < me

• To my understanding: Nothing supplied violates EULA/TOS and/or Licences. No tools, documents, etc and/or changes/alterations have been made require licencing, only accreditation, they are on sites/ in the repo PR and suggested by dev's. Any existing readme, etc documents are included.  

PICs:

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TexConv_IMG_2_BC1_UNORM_NO_MIPMAPS.bat IN NOTEPAD++ & THE DXT_BC33 bat IN ACTION (RED IS GOOD ON EYES!)

The Full Detailed List:

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** Warning files : To remind you!

00 ShutUp Win10: If you use win10, You want this.

01 CleanMem: Manages ram better than anything else free

02 Brave Web Browser: Fast, safe, pays you for ads, like $14 USD per month (Please support HumanStuff with a donation of 1 BAT monthly if you could be so kind, that’s about $0.22 USD)

03 HumanStuff Ninite Auto Installer: No crap, no bundle ware, no extra languages, installs to default location, IT’S THE SAFEST WAY TO DO A NEW PC SETUP, IF NOT FROM A DISK IMAGE.

·         Run it again to update all!

·         I could list them all, but a picture is worth a few hundred words:

04 Kapersky free Cloud: The best free AV in tests, if its too ram/cpu “heavy” on your system, Avast is the lightest of the “best” free Anti-Virus, see chart below

04-alt, Avast Free Anti-Virus: https://www.avast.com/en-ca/index#pc GREAT ALTERNATIVE!

Free Anti-Virus Program (and Norton for comparison)	Memory Usage (MB) smaller better	Scan Speed (MB/s) bigger better
Avast Antivirus (Free, post Nirto)	6.6	20.0
Norton Antivirus (Paid)	9.9	36.3
Kaspersky Antivirus (Free Cloud)	23.0	34.4
AVG Antivirus (Free)	29.6	32.4

 

05 Cleaning Tools:

·         BleachBit: So good it was once used for evil, google it

·         Bulk Crap Uninstaller: Cause everyone wants to add crap to installers for some reason

06 Personal Backup: THE BEST free in OS backup for windows. Can backup open/locked files.

07 Windows Enhancements:

·         Auslogic Disk Deframrgmentor: Best free defrag for HDD’s & SSD’s

·         Cmder: Windows CMD line “make easy” tool

·         DoubleCommander QT build: The BEST double pane & tabbed file explorer

·         Ghostscript libraries: You’ll need these, trust me

·         G'MIC: GREYC's Magic for Image Computing is a full-featured open-source framework for digital image processing, distributed under the CeCILL free software licenses

·         NtLite: Intelligent solutions for Windows integration and customization

·         O&O RegEditor: A much better and SAFER reg editor

·         UltraCopier: Because the windows shell one is slow and corrupts big (like huge) files. Replaces the Windows context “copy” menu

·         ImgBurn: The most powerful and expandable with plugins Disc writer/reader, CAUTION stand-alone install may attempt to add bundle ware, Ninite auto-installer auto declines

08 Office Tools:

·         Bulk File Rename Utility: This is a super time saver, espally when you have added an prefix in an image converter

·         Jarte: Makes Wordpad a real word processor (nearly “stand alone” ms-word equal for most tasks) that opens txt, rtf, docx, doc, odf. SAVES TO: txt, rtf, doc, odf

·         Pandoc: cmd tool that can make basically anydocument into anyother type, INSANLY POWERFUL

·         Turtl: A note and bookmark organizer better than evernote, (because Joplin is too large to package and has no on-line installer) JOPLIN IS BETTER

·         Typora: The greatest What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) markdown editor, supports pretty much everything (one beta ends this will go payware, currently its mixed source FREE, when beta ends you may keep or switch to JOPLIN)

09 Image Tools:

·         3D Tools:

o   Material Maker: Free and powerful texture generator/editor

o   Quixel Mixer: THE free 3D tool, along with Blender (or B for Artists)

o   TexGraph: Free, Powerful, light

o   Texture Lab: Free, powerful, full featured, not so light

·         Convert & Optimize Image Tools

o   Caesium Image Compressor 1.7 & 20 Beta (Fixed via PR rebuild, zilflop.dll typo lol, repackaged with PB Installer Maker), CaesiumPH LOSSLESS OPTIMIZER

o   RIOT & ROIT Plugin for other applications: Super good at what its made to do, FREE

o   XnConvert: The most powerful/fastest image converter etc. HAS BULK “BATCHING” FEATURES

o   System Monitoring (for errors in Conversion/Encoding debugging): CPU-Z, GPU-z, HWiNFO and DirectX Dialogistic tool (its built into directx drivers)

·         DDS ENCODE / COMPRESS TOOLS

o   COMMAND LINE, aka CLI, TOOLS:

§  AMD Compressinator CLI tool (zip is misnamed GUI tool, will fix next release)

§  Enhanced Crunch Binomial’s Tree: Makes the LOWEST RAM using DDS files! But the quality isn’t “great”!

§  Nvidia Texture Exporter CLI tools: VERY powerful if abit OLD!

§  TexConv CLI TOOL: THE MOST UP TO DATE DDS COMPRESSOR/ENCODER, GET GUI HERE , https://vvvv.org/contribution/texconvgui , I’ll add it next release.  (PR fixed and OpenEXR support added)

o   GUI TOOLS:

§  AMD Compressinator GUI TOOL: I never have good results with this on anything BUT DXT1-BC1…AVOID!

§  DDS Converter 1.4: The original, still VERY fast for bulk small textures with a display window

§  DDS Converter 2.1: The enchaned version of above, a few old features were removed (so we have both)

§  Nvidia Texture Exporter Tool: THE BEST TOOL with a GUI, BEST QUALITY OF A GUI TOOL, TUTORIAL PDF INCLUDED

o   Image Format Codecs:

§  AV1

§  HEIF

§  HEVC

§  MPEG2

§  VP9

§  EXR/ORA (they are added by Krita)

§  Almost Every other format (added by Paint.net & its Plugins)

o   PC CPU, RAM, GPU Tweakers:

§  MSI Afterburner: The GPU overclocker EVERYONE uses, so SUPER well documented/supported. Light. Has FPS counter, SAFE! Use its forum to find “best average setting” for your GPU

§  AMD or Intel CPU Overclocking tools (Ryzen Master or similar): Get these yourself, correct for your CPU (CPU-Z will give you all info you need), too many “types” to include in pack

§  MSI Kombustor: FREE and light, but it can stress a Titan-X in SLI

o   Normal Map Tools:

§  AwesomeBump: Best advanced Normal map too, that I forgot to add, will add next release, get it here: https://github.com/kmkolasinski/AwesomeBump

§  Dxtbmpx: Super fast and light, powerful

§  ModLab: The hard to get off stream version

§  XNormal: The Normal Map tool

o   Paint.net Plugins:

§  My personal: “Filetypes”, “filters”, “effects”, & “brushes” pack (EVERY file type you need that Paint.net can handle is in here)

§  BoltBits: Enhanced pack

§  G’MIC: for Paint.Net

o   Raster Editors:

§  PixaFlux: Its small powerful and has AWESOME compare image tools (like the best ever)

o   Test Tool:

§  DDSopti: Final version, Awesome DDS testing app

o   Viewer Tools:

§  DDS Viewer: the MS-DX included dds viewer

§  IrfanView64, with all plugins: the fastest image viewer

§  ProgImgView: Powerful image viewer

§  SageThumbs: So windows can make thumbnails of almost any image file type

§  XnView Classic: The most powerful image viewer there is, good companion to IrfanView, due to format support

10 Free Cloud Storage & Sync, Free approximately 1.3Tb:

·         Ymail 1Tb, WFT, 1TB?: YES! google how to use

·         Box 5Gb: Full features, the big daddy of OG clouds

·         Degoo 100Gb: basic but huge! 100mb file size limit

·         DropBox 5Gb: Its dropbox…

·         IceDrive 10Gb: Security focused

·         iDrive 5Gb: Backup focused

·         MediaFire 10Gb: FAST

·         Mega 50Gb: If it wasn’t for Degoo this would be king… almost NO LIMITS

·         pCloud 10Gb: You can stream media directly from it

·         Sync 2Gb: Its not a lot, but you can boost it to 10gb+ free

11 Show Off Tools:

·         PB Installer maker: For packaging zips into self extracting EXE’s

·         KDE Live: The most powerful free video editor, well supported, good for beginner or pro

·         OSB Studio: The streaming software everyone knows, well documented

·         Ocean Audio: Because Audacity is no longer king of the Free Audio Editor hill

12 ImgBurn Plugins: The most powerful and expandable with plugins Disc writer/reader, Ninite auto-installer doesn’t add plugins

99 ALT Links 2 HumanStuff Tools: For users that wish to mix and match tools, I have web links to about 100 free ware apps, I’ve tried them all.

 

 

 

 

 

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This is an image files library for editing your own custom textures, etc. EASY!
Simple to understand Tutorials for KSP, MADE EASY & 100% FREE!

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MAKE A CUSTOM "HEAD" & "SUIT" SET(s) ON DAY 1! ANY "ERA"! "BACKPACKS" "PARACHUTES" & "SKYBOXES" TOO!

Presenting your work, MADE EASY! Image Hosting, Streaming, Video Editing & Production. Every tool, Every "How Too" 100% FREE

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Using a Celeron or Athlon, or OLDER CPU? No GPU? ON 2GB OF RAM? ONLY A 40GB HDD? NO PROBLEM! I'll explain it ALL!

* I tested on a "NEXBOX" T11 Mini-PC Intel Atom Z8300 (1.84GHz, 4-core 64bit), 2GB DDR3 RAM, 32GB NAND Flash & 64GB Class 10 SD-Card, Intel HD 5300 (iGPU shared memory, FULL DirectX 11.2, PART 12). I"M RUNNING Windows 8.1 64bit ON IT. (Detailed below)

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A Kerbal Space Program mod, as an "asset library", that allows YOU to add/edit visuals YOURSELF! With:
All 16bit per channel "Masters" are 16384x16384 KRA (Kirita), EXR, & ORA files
All 8bit per channel files are PDN (paint.net), at all sizes, & WebP at 8192x8192 or under, Tiff @ 16384x16384 (WebP has format limit of 16383x16383)

 

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DO NOT MOVE FOLDERS/FILES IN "WORKBIN" FOLDER AFTER YOU MOVE THE MAIN "HumanStuff_EasyBuilderWorkshop" FOLDER TO THE ROOT OF A DRIVE

• ROOT = C:\ OR D:\ OR H:\ ETC, EXAMPLE: C:\HumanStuff_EasyBuilderWorkshop\WORKBIN
• THE "*.bat" FILES ARE DESIGNED TO WORK AS FOLDERS ARE "BUILT". ONLY ADD, MOVE DELETE IMAGES TO CONVERT TO DDS AND THE RESULTING DDS FILES.
• MOVING OR RENAMING THE FOLDERS WILL BREAK THE "EASY" PART OF THE PACK! AND THE "*.bat" WILL REMAKE THE FOLDERS, THEY INTERACT WITH, WHEN RUN

 

SOURCE: GITHUB, MIRROR: SPACEDOCK (Current: v1.1.1)

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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YOU ARE HEAVILY ENCOURAGED TO POST (SPOILED PLEASE) ANYTHING YOU MAKE. "BEST OF THE MONTH" WILL BE DISPLAYED IN OP!

DISCLAIMER: I AM LEARNING, ALWAYS WILL BE! I AM NOT AN EXPERT, CHECK INFO WITH OTHER "KNOWN GOOD/TRUE" SOURCES

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BEST OF THE MONTH
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@Aazard HumanStuff Texture Pack for TextureReplacer. The only thing made with the "Easy Builder Workshop" so far...

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The "Run On" Run Down
BE WARNED, I TEND TO..."GO ON & ON"

I will try to keep OP populated with SUPER useful info with links & text URL's

All info will be MIRRORED on my HumanStuff GitHub wiki, for preservation/back-up off forums

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This pack does not use PNG files at all (Well a few icons, etc "need" PNG). EXR, WebP & Tiff are VASTLY better in quality and/or size!

• Kirita's KRA & Open EXR extended are "the" 16bpc formats, ORA is "the compressed" 16bpc format

• Paint.net's PDN & WebP are "The" 8bpc formats. Tiff low color (8bpc) Stands in for WebP @ 16384x16384 (As WebP has format limit of 16383x16383)

• I explain everything, using the tools, encoding to dds. You only need to be willing to LEARN, some pretty simple stuff, to make a custom head and suit on DAY 1!

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Add additional "EASE", "LOW EFFORT" & "SPEED" to making GREAT LOOKING TR VISUALS, on suits/heads,

YOURSELF!

With the the Do it Yourself "Easy Head & Suit Builder/Layered Components Workshop (or LCW)

For use with TextureReplacer, perhaps files will work with other texture replacement mods, But thats still untested.

 

• Creations of "Head" face/hair features
• Creations of equipment, flags, patches & logo's (All IRL flags/mission & other patches & any "logo's/symbols" I use are public use and allow "open" use/redistribution) 
• Creation of flight suits, IVA, EIVA, IVA space suites. Visors also
• Creation of Skyboxes & Reflections.
• Includes Normal maps & emissives
• Plus "KSC Staff & Ground Crew" and their props, note the common "Gene Kerman is albino in Mission Control" (but ground crew are 1000% worth it)

 

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ORIGINALLY PART OF HumanStuff TEXTURE REPLACER VISUAL PACK MOD FOUND HERE:

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HumanStuff Wiki
* Needs vast update

Everyone Should Read (they are short and have pretty pics)

 

• 01. FREE Tools, Programs & Info Links Compilation
• 02. Basics: "Alpha" & Non DDS Image Formats Best Uses
• 03. Basics: DDS Image Formats Best Uses 
• 11. Making DXT Textures, NVIDIA's tool, in Photoshop, Stand alone version is similar *
• * This has good DETAILED info BUT details using the Nvidia "photoshop tool" (they have free stand alone also) step by step, #3 above uses the much easier better method that allows "measure twice cut once methodology"

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CREDITS

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Original Head/Face/Hair Textures credited to @Hotaru (sorry @Hotaru), @GregroxMun (Human Colored Faces) & @Errol (Human colored Heads Recolored)
Special thanks to @hemeac (great posts on this subject), @Chubby_Hamster (boot textures) & @Jiraiyah (seeing Green Skull Revived come back gave me this idea) for being able to see how their work was done to make my own. @Oinker reflections, EvnMap reflections and GalaxyTex skybox (super "light touched" darkened, resized/DDS optimized) used with a few touches (mostly not to the art other than trying my hand at darkening them). If I forgot to credit you (or was rude and didnt talk with you/get reply from you 1st) please let me know. My "Maps"/"Templates" for suits/visors and hair are created using @Chubby_Hamster's KSP2 SpaceSuit & Male/Female KSP2 Kerbal recreations as examples, the ones for heads are made using Real Humans by Clifton Marien as an example.
@linuxgurugamer for sampling the "LoadingScreenManager" code, @sarbian& @pap1723, plus the whole "Kerbal Space Program - Realism Overhaul" team for sampling the "DDSloader" & "Loadingscreenchanger"
And many others! Everything used is CC0 to CC4-BY-SA/NC Licenses, BUT 1 is MIT, but labeled "Feel free to use my KSP images in anythiing, with or without credit. They're free for anyone to use for anything." which is @Oinker's reflections, EvnMap reflections and GalaxyTex skybox. I am willing to replace this skybox/ect is required due to it being "MIT", if it applies regardless of the authors express permission

ADDITIONAL OPEN DOMAIN CREDITS: Pandoc.org, Rodz Labs, Holger Dammertz, xNormal.org, K. Kolasinski, Voidtools (David Carpenter), typora.io, J. Rathlev, IEAP, Uni-Kiel, LIGHTNING UK! XnSoft, Irfan Skiljan, BoltBit,, Mankua Software, Paint.NET., krita.org, BinomialLLC, MS Texconv, OpenEXR, zlib, Meso, u7angel, woei, DarthAazard < me

awaiting some replies for other open domain, CC etc sources. All Are allowable under cc 4.0 by ncsa

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 Version Change Log:

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# Change Log # //HumanStuff_EasyBuilderWorkshop//

## 1.1.1
- FULL "Easy Builder Workshop" Directory (aka: Folder) structure built.
- Custom BAT FILES for TexConv for non-CLI accustom users
## 1.0.2
- BigPack "Easy Builder Workshop" Directory (aka: Folder) structure built.
- intended for the "root" of a drive; like: "c:\HumanStuff_EasyBuilderWorkshop" or "d:\", any drive
## 1.0.1
- BigPack "texture library" removed from main HumanStuff TR texture pack.
 

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This pack is designed for use with these 100% FREE tools:

** I can match 95% of tools, listed below, with free online "software as a service" alternatives **

•  WINDOWS 8.1:  here URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows8ISO NOT FREE, BUT 98% CHANCE YOU OWN A LEGAL "KEY" FROM THE PC YOU ARE USING RIGHT NOW TO PLAY KSP

I know "What do I mean?".. it can do anything Win10 can (with MINOR tweaking) & uses the least system resources of a 64bit Windows OS other than XP Pro64. Uses same drivers as windows 10. Last "no MS-spyware mega bundle" Windows too
 Your win7 upgrade, also a win8 & win10 coa ("licence key") or OTHER "upgrade" to Win10 is allowed for Windows 8.1 activation: see here

• Paint.net: GIMP has nothing on Paint.net NOW in v4.x, This thing could be a 1 stop shop for 8 bit per channel work, all the way to mipmaps and encoding to DXT1 to DXT5, BC1, BC1a, BC3, BC3nm, BC6H_SF, BC6H_UF & BC7, UNORM, sRGB & Typeless

Gimps GIMP, like its a gimp! As a free raster editor due to "xfc". XFC is NOT a real image format! I wont go into it. It handles EVERYTHING 8 bit per channel and has "a enhanced version" & massive plugins library. HANDLES ANY 8 BIT PER CHANNEL FORMAT! OPTIMIZED! ENCODES TO dds, GENERATES MIPMAPS, HAS "every tool under the sun plus" FOR 8bpc

• Kirita: here DO NOT DOWNLOAD FROM MS STORE OR STEAM, DEV WEBSITE ONLY URL: https://krita.org/en/download/krita-desktop/

BOW BEFORE ZO.... umm, The worlds greatest free raster image editor. Handles 16 pit per channel. Paint.net has better plugins/features. Handles EXR, ORA and other 16 bit per channel formats

• Nvidia Stand Alone Texture Tool GUI: here URL: https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-texture-tools-exporter

THE BEST GUI DXT/BC ENCODER, HANDS DOWN! Easy, has a display, QUALITY IS AWESOME!

• MS Texcon GUI & Command Line tool: GUI here URL: https://vvvv.org/contribution/texconvgui

The MOST up to date DDS/DXT/BC encoder there is. I will explain its use in EASY DETAILS! MORE UP TO DATE, WITH: Better Speed AND Quality than the, so called, almighty CRUNCH! Uses about 1mb less ram to boot!

For the "CMD TOOL":

 Just download texconv from https://github.com/Microsoft/DirectXTex/releases SEE SUPER INFO SPOILED!

 

Spoiler

 

Stick it in the root of the directory you're going to be running it from, or if you intend to use it a lot stick it in windows\system32.
The file-name parameter indicates the file(s) to convert using dds, tga, hdr, ppm, pfm, or a WIC-supported format (bmp, jpg, png, jxr, etc.).
*Support for OpenEXR (EXR) can be added to the texconv utility. Uncomment #define USE_OPENEXR in the source, and add the DirectXTex auxiliary module to the project. See Adding OpenEXR for more details including building the OpenEXR library. This adds exr as an option for -ft.

AS COMMAND FOR "BC3_UNORM: Img_2_BC3.bat", YOU CAN MAKE IN NOTEPAD++ (or even ms-notepad), JUST COPY/PAST BELOW & SAVE AS A ".bat", ADD AS CONTEXT SHORTCUT TO "cmder" AND RUN FRON A MOUSE CLICK, I HAVE 16 "FAST CMD'S" (MIPMAP & NOT: BC7, BC6H_SF16, BC6H_UF16, BC1, BC3, A8, L8, ALL "NON-sRGB")

** This will go through the correct "NAMED DXT TYPE" directory, & all its subdirectories,  MAKE SURE TOO Make a backup, encoding all *.* (ALL supported image formats) into the BC3 format (adding FULL levels chain of mipmaps), Outputs to the correct "NAMED DXT TYPE" directory
see here.for batch sripting how too

FOR BC3: PLUS USE THE "DXGI_FORMAT" name minus the "DXGI_FORMAT" part, see here, so change BC3_UNORM to BC7_UNORM for BC7, BC6H_SF16 (HDR), BC6H_UF16 (non-HDR) , BC1_UNORM for DXT1, BC1 and BC3 have "UNORM_SRGB" also for sRGB (without its "Linear")
Run it from where you will do conversion,

THIS IS THE COMMAND 

Configurable Variables:

@FORMAT=BC3_UNORM (or whatever)

• This variable is the DDS format, you can change it to any of the following formats:

You can double click a format to select the whole thing, and copy it directly, since they're separated by spaces.

RGBA BGRA DXT1 DXT2 DXT3 DXT4 DXT5 BC6H_UF16 BC6H_SF16 BC7_UNORM BC7_UNORM_SRGB

R32G32B32A32_FLOAT R32G32B32A32_UINT R32G32B32A32_SINT R32G32B32_FLOAT R32G32B32_UINT R32G32B32_SINT R16G16B16A16_FLOAT R16G16B16A16_UNORM R16G16B16A16_UINT R16G16B16A16_SNORM R16G16B16A16_SINT R32G32_FLOAT R32G32_UINT R32G32_SINT R10G10B10A2_UNORM R10G10B10A2_UINT R11G11B10_FLOAT R8G8B8A8_UNORM R8G8B8A8_UNORM_SRGB R8G8B8A8_UINT R8G8B8A8_SNORM R8G8B8A8_SINT R16G16_FLOAT R16G16_UNORM R16G16_UINT R16G16_SNORM R16G16_SINT R32_FLOAT R32_UINT R32_SINT R8G8_UNORM R8G8_UINT R8G8_SNORM R8G8_SINT R16_FLOAT R16_UNORM R16_UINT R16_SNORM R16_SINT R8_UNORM R8_UINT R8_SNORM R8_SINT A8_UNORM R9G9B9E5_SHAREDEXP R8G8_B8G8_UNORM G8R8_G8B8_UNORM BC1_UNORM BC1_UNORM_SRGB BC2_UNORM BC2_UNORM_SRGB BC3_UNORM BC3_UNORM_SRGB BC4_UNORM BC4_SNORM BC5_UNORM BC5_SNORM B5G6R5_UNORM B5G5R5A1_UNORM B8G8R8A8_UNORM B8G8R8X8_UNORM R10G10B10_XR_BIAS_A2_UNORM B8G8R8A8_UNORM_SRGB B8G8R8X8_UNORM_SRGB

AYUV Y410 Y416 YUY2 Y210 Y216 B4G4R4A4_UNORM FP16 FP32 BPTC BPTC_FLOAT

• DXT5 Has compression artifacts, BGRA is basically uncompressed, BC7 is the recommended format to use for Skyrim, fallout 4, Dirt, LOL, DOTA and many other "recent titles"

@FINPUT=InputImages\*

• This variable is the input folder, you can change it to a full direct path like F:\Modding\My Custom Images\* just don't use quotes and make sure to have the * at the end or the script wont work

@FOUTPUT=OutputImages\

• This variable is the same as above but it's the output folder where the DDS images will be created.

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* Direct3D can only create BC resources where the top-level width & height are multiples of 4, -fixbc4x4 ensures this, 
FLAGS, THE MOST IMPORTANT: -pow2: Fits each texture to a power-of-2 for width & height, minimizing changes to the aspect ratio. The maximum size for a dimension is based on the -fl switch (defaults to 16384x16384).
-bc flags: Sets options for BC compression. The flags is a combination of one or more of the following: u: to use uniform weighting rather than perceptual (BC1-BC3) d: use dithering (BC1-BC3) q: Uses minimal compression (BC7: uses just mode 6) x: Uses maximum compression (BC7: enables mode 0 & 2 usage)
-tonemap: Applies tonemap operator based on maximum luminosity to ensure HDR image data is adjusted to an LDR range, -xlum: DDS files with L8, A8L8, or L16 formats are expanded to 8:8:8:8 or 16:16:16:16. Without this flag, they are converted to 1-channel (red) or 2-channel (red/green) formats.
-wiclossless: Enable lossless encoding when encoding WIC images. Applies to jpg, tiff, and jxr, sepalpha: Separates alpha channel for resize/mipmap generation. This implies an alpha mode setting of DDS_ALPHA_MODE_CUSTOM as this is typically only used if the alpha channel doesn't contain transparency information.
& FINALLY: -pmalpha: Converts the final texture data to use premultiplied alpha. This sets an alpha mode of DDS_ALPHA_MODE_PREMULTIPLIED unless the entire alpha channel is fully opaque. -alpha: Converts a premultiplied alpha image to non-premultiplied alpha (a.k.a. straight alpha).
nogop= VERY SLOW MODE (BUT BEST QUALITY), -vflip = Perform VERTICAL flip of image (IF NEEDED), nologo = Suppress copyright message. -wicq number: Provides an image quality setting to use when encoding WIC images ranging from 0.0 to 1.0. Applies to jpg, tiff, and jxr.

MIPMAPS: Why to 1 to 16, avg 4 "levels"?.. the "smallest" mipmap allowed is 4x4, each "level" of mipmap is "half (/2 @ POT) level over it (main image is "level 0") so each 1024x1024, could have MAX, 8 levels of mipmaps (@ 16K 128 levels, theoretical). IMHO, 512x512 is as "small" as you need, 1 @ 1K , 2 @ 2K, 4 @ 4K, 8 @ 8K & 16 @ 16K

 

THE WORK! aka "TexConv_IMG_2_BC3_UNORM_MIPMAPED.bat"

ECHO OFF
Setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion

::Variables
SET @FORMAT=BC3_UNORM
SET @InputFolder=%~dp0Input_IMG_TO_BC3\
SET @OutputFolder=%~dp0Output_DXT5_BC3\
SET @TEXCONVEXE=%~dp0texconv.exe
SET @TEXCONVEXE02=%~dp0texconv.exe
:: Check for texconv.exe
IF EXIST "%@TEXCONVEXE%" SET @TEXCONVEXE=1
IF "%@TEXCONVEXE%"=="1" GOTO EXESTATE_1

:EXESTATE_0
TITLE - ERROR! texconv.exe not found!!!
COLOR 04
ECHO: && ECHO: && ECHO:
ECHO                 === ERROR! texconv.exe not found!===
ECHO:
ECHO     Install Path: "%~dp0texconv.exe"
ECHO:
ECHO    The script needs texconv.exe in order to work properly.
ECHO:
ECHO    Please make sure texconv.exe is in: "%~dp0"

ECHO: && ECHO:

GOTO CONT01


:EXESTATE_1
TITLE - Texconv.exe found!!!
COLOR 0A

ECHO: && ECHO: && ECHO:
ECHO                 [ texconv.exe Is Installed! ]
ECHO:
ECHO     "%~dp0texconv.exe"
ECHO:
GOTO CONT00
:CONT01
ECHO: && ECHO:
ECHO        Please copy/move the missing texconv.exe executable to where the script needs it to be and refresh this window.
ECHO:
:CONT00
IF "%@TEXCONVEXE%"=="1" GOTO START
ECHO: && ECHO: && ECHO     [Press any key to refresh the window] && PAUSE>NUL
GOTO SetTexConvPath

:START

:: Customize CMD Window
TITLE HumanStuff TexConv Batch Directory Script v1.0.2
PROMPT $G
COLOR 04
CLS

:: Make The Folders
IF NOT EXIST "%@InputFolder%" MKDIR "%@InputFolder%"
IF NOT EXIST "%@OutputFolder%" MKDIR "%@OutputFolder%"

::Run TexConv.exe
::-srgb was added because PNG images were getting high contrast colors
::Sorry about the messy code but this was harder to do than it sounds

FOR /R "%@InputFolder%" %%i IN (*.*) DO (
set word=%@OutputFolder%
set str=%%~dpi
CALL :REPLACESTRING
SET @IFOL=!@OSTRING!
CALL :MKFOL
SET @ISTRING=%%i
CALL :TexConv01
)

PAUSE
GOTO SCRIPTEND

:MKFOL
IF NOT EXIST "%@IFOL%" (
	MKDIR "%@IFOL%"
)
GOTO SCRIPTEND

:TexConv01
IF NOT "%@LOGO%"=="" SET @LOGO=-nologo
"%@TEXCONVEXE02%" %@LOGO% -srgb -nogpu -pow2 -vflip -if triangle -bc u -f %@FORMAT% "%@ISTRING%" -o "%@OSTRING%" -y
ECHO:
SET @LOGO= 
GOTO SCRIPTEND

:REPLACESTRING
call set str=%%str:%@InputFolder%=%word%%%
set @OSTRING=!str:~0,-1!
GOTO SCRIPTEND

:SCRIPTEND

 

 

YOU CAN ALSO UNCOMPRESS .dds BACK TO tiff or exr 

 

• UNITY ENHANCED CRUNCH: Hard to find "newest version/branch" URL: https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/crunch/tree/unity

WHEN "LEAST RESOURCES USED BY TARGET" (in our case the "end user" of the texture etc) TRUMPS QUALITY...NOTHING MATCHES THIS!
 

• "VVVV's" DDS Converter: here URL: https://vvvv.org/contribution/dds-converter

Its the old "DDS Converter 2.1" updated!, Combined with MS tool its good for BULK

• IrfanView64 (full plugins) & XnView Classic (USE Extended), plus XnView MP (for plugins)

These 2 (well 3) viewers can see ANYTHING! They have great tools tool. But 99% only for viewing.

• XnConvert: here URL: https://www.xnview.com/en/xnconvert/

NOTHING handles what this does, as well. I tested this to make 1000 (all copies) DXT1-BC1 heads frpm webp files in SECONDS! (on a Ryzen 5 3600XT). It doesnt have options for DXT encoding, just auto BC1/BC1a, & it doesnt do mipmapping, & it "pure CPU"..But it auto detects alpha and uses DXT1a (BC1 with 1bit alpha)

• RIOT & Caesium Image Compressor Tools:

The best combo, hands down

• Quixel Studio, AwesomeBump & xNormal Tools:

The best combo for normals, with Paint.net's normal plugin, hands down

MUST HAVE's for Easy of life: * If you need more 100% FREE Cloud storage, VPN, or Emails Message me, I can supply you with over 3TB free (requires 19+ Cloud providers, 4 on list will give you 1.15TB EASY & FREE)

• YMail: 1TB FREE CLOUD Yahoo mail gives us up to 1 TB of free storage, plus a nice, fairly well "accepted" secondary email. How to use it? < LINK, Basically limitless document, file, web linketc, etc storage
• Ninite: MY PICKS take this link. An all in one installer:AUTO INSTALLER/UPDATER! SAFE! FREE! AWESOME CHECK IT OUT NOW lol
• NTlite: Integrate updates, drivers, automate Windows & apps setup. Speedup Windows based dev tasks & have it all set for the next time. Optionally remove OS components, simplify installs. Reduce attack vectors, free up drive space. You can do all on your existing Windows in-place, no re-install
• Abiword: v2.86 is last for Windows. Because we dont need LibreOffice for "simple" rich text. ITS like 500% faster, ever better than Jarte for "speed"
• Sumatra PDF: Same reason as Abiword, SPEED & SIZE
• O&O RegEditor: Because like Ram, Page file, defragmentation & all the other "basics", MS Stopped caring in the Year 2000 
• Auslogic Disk Defrag Free: The best defragger for Windows & SSD's. Its also 100% free, like they did with page file & ram, MS just stopped caring in the year 2000
• DirectX & Drivers: I can not stress this enough. Update these OFTEN, from the website's of makers not Windows update. "Studio/Artist Driver packs" are in fact better for artists..wow
• BLEACHBIT: SO GOOD, IT WAS ONCE USED FOR EVIL? (RUMOURS SAY) CCleaner would be deleted by this as "junk"
• Classic Shell: unless your first windows was Windows 8....
• CleanMem: Cause MS stopped saving you ram with windows 98se, after that they just said "buy more"
• Bulk Rename utility: OMG the time saved...the time...
• DoubleCommander, QT build beta: Again the time and confusion it saves to have a tabbed double pane file explorer. (the Qt beta is only so it can "match themes", like dark theme in windows 7+, beta isnt needed if you dont care)
• Notepad++: < this should be everything that you dont use LibreOffice for. Its also a (not so) "simple" IDE
• LibreOffice: MS Office ++...enough said. Its better than Jatre, has plugins out the...umm...documents folder
• Pcloud: Not the best, but FREE 10GB more? Plus you can stream music and, with some playing, video directly from it
• Mega: 50gb cloud free, with auto upload? too useful for backups
• Degoo: 100GB cloud default free...more?, without referrals +125mb per day (+0.5gb per referral), if you watch a video ad, on mobile, max 1TB. Lacks Megas ability to deal with files over 100mb (split zip big files @ 97mb per "part")
• Brave: A safe but fast web browser. Uses anything Chrome does. Has better security than Firefox
• Kaspersky AV Free: If you use nothing but this, at least its very good.
• SpyBot S&D Free: You must immunize! why get infected, to clean, then infected again next week? A super good malware scanner too 
• CPU-Z/GPU-Z: simple, compact, informative about the system your looking at.
• 7Zip: Zip method: Zip > Deflate64 (A 32BIT CPU WITH "64BIT SUPPORT" IS FINE WITH THIS) > Max word size > max compression. = smallest files with no corruption. Normal windows Winzip can see/unzip this (CKAN too)
• MSI AFTERBURNER & KOMBUSTOR, + AMD/NVIDIA/INTEL "CPU/GPU TOOLS": Get the most out of your system safely. Test the result before use! 115% stock is considered "average/safe", as "a rule of thumb" 
• Redo Rescue & Rescucezilla: Because Clonezillia has no GUI & Iperius isnt user friendly, this is an easy backup solution combo (output to your mega drive "local folder" and/or degoo cloud, "split zip" it, @ 97mb "parts", need be)
• Joplin: Logs, note, super hidden info/link....logs...to do's... lists... etc that you cant lose. Basically limitless document/web link storage
• AIO Run times: LINK so useful I'm linking it. This is 90% of the run-times even an advanced user should need.
• HWiNFO: EXPANSIVE INFO.Cause you really need to see details that other monitors dont give you
• Cmdr: Run powershell...run... This is a real cmd prompt tool...

"CRAZY POWER USER" TOOLS, for "Advanced users":

• * WinSCP: FTP the, better, easy way
• * Visual Studio 2019: Viewing .cs projects. SUPER informative. "The IDE / Scripting tool", unless your a huge Mac head or Linux guru...
• * Pandoc: Document Converter; RichText to MarkDown & Wikimedia, plus. If you need to convert files from one markup format into another, pandoc is your swiss-army knife. Pandoc can convert between the following formats:  LOOK AT THIS WILD FORMAT "CHART" (warning: ?chart??):
  Spoiler

  

  
  * Just follow the rules of "what markdown can do", formatting wise (common "Lorem ipsum", aka "gibberish/dummy" entry, the areas for imgur images inserts), inside libreoffice, life saver 
• * HxD: CONFUSING, POWERFUL, a "Hex editor"
• * MS DirectX "ToolKits": hhttps://github.com/Microsoft/DirectXTK/ & GET BOTH DirectX11 XTK & DirectTEX TOOL "REAL" DirectX "mode" testing (like your GPU is DX12, you want to test DX9c, 10.x or 11.x) READ this info https://walbourn.github.io/directx-tool-kit-for-directx-12/
• * Mint Linux: Simple, current, popular, well supported. Good dual boot option. "REAL" OpenGL testing (Unless your a Mac user)
• * Genie: Notepad++'s "big bro"

 

Showing off:

• Imgur: Because instagram is... well not for this type of stuff... and its awesome. Basically limitless image storage.
• ImgBB: Any Format, what Imgur cant do, this can! APNG & GIF move over Animated WebP is here Basically limitless image storage 2.
• ShareX: Nothing takes an "easy custom" screenshot like shareX, nothing. 
• OBS: Its THE streaming software, super supported
• Kdenlive: This is "easy pro level" video edition software. Very well supported by user base
• PeerTube: Cause Youtube has...odd policies. Basically limitless video storage

THE "BIG LISTS": Spoiled due to size

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Tested, to ensure user "smoothness" on ANY PC, with: TL;DR: An "Average" $20 USD, used, "Year 2010" (4-Core/64bit) Desktop PC, might be faster & have more/better CPU/RAM/GPU/DISK

A "NEXBOX" T11 Mini-PC Intel Atom Z8300 (1.84GHz, 4-core 64bit), 2GB DDR3 RAM, 32GB NAND Flash & 64GB Class 10 SD-Card, Intel HD 5300 (iGPU shared memory, DirectX 11.2). I"M RUNNING Windows 8.1 64bit ON IT.

OS ("Trimmed" with "NTLite" < use this), "SYSTEM APPS", AV/SECURITY ON 32GB "C" DRIVE, ALL NON-"STARTUP" APPS/FILES ON 64GB SD-CARD AS "D" DRIVE, MODERATE USE OF "CLOUD STORAGE" (AS DOWNLOADS FOLDER, LOL). Note: max shared video memory is 2gb, 2.5gb with registry editing, I have it 64mb, thats "minimum" 

I was willing to spend $20 bucks, on ebay it was this or a HP T610 "Thin Client", this is more reasonable/newer (DirectX 11.2 FULL/12 PART supporting iGPU & a Quad Core 64Bit CPU). * The ability to run 64Bit Programs & DirectX 11 support is considered the min to "run" ksp (without witchcraft)
 

NOTE ABOUT THIS PC: 

• Boots: 35 sec to desktop,
• Opens Kirita (no image): 1m17sec,
• Opens LibreOffice to menu: almost 2min,
• "LOL" on "low, everything" 720p: avg 37fps (wow),
• KSP v10.1 720P low launching kerbalX: avg 31fps full KSC scene "viewed" in launch.
• Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, current release, 1080p: everything "as good as possible" 60fps (max refresh of iGPU is 60hz, I assume I "hit the wall")
• Open Kirita 16bpp 16k image: 16 minutes! (without cleanmem it sometimes "locks up", leaves under 20mb ram "free")
• Open Paint.net 8bpp 16K image: just over 5min (without cleanmem it sometimes "locks up", leaves under 40mb free < odd why 20mb "more" than 16bpc?)
• 3dMark dx12: Demo and 1st "timespy" test "run" (as a slide show) All tests fail to report
• The "Firestrike" test @ 720p lowest is avg 19fps, stand-alone run

This PC Nvidia GUI tool: (all UNORM, no dx10 headers)

• ENCODE 4K Suit, 1 "EVAtexture.webp" file FROM 32bit WebP TO DXT1-BC1 fastest on "GPU" (lol), gamma correct, no mipmaps": 2m 45sec ish, 
• ENCODE 4K Suit, 1 "EVAtexture.webp" file FROM 32bit WebP TO DXT5-BC3 slowest "CPU", gamma corrected, with 4 levels of mipmap, kiaser window filte, pre-multiplexed & exported alpha: 12m 15sec ish

Texcon CMD tool:(all UNORM, no dx10 headers)

• ENCODE 50 2K "kerbalHead.webp's" files FROM 24bit WebP TO DXT1-BC1 fastest on "GPU" (lol), no mipmaps, gamma corrected, V.flip, rest to "defaults", RUN via bat file in ROOT of C:/workbin (on NAND 32gb, no over-write/no backup/no test): Just under 25 minutes! Better Speed/Quality than CRUNCH!

"New out of the box" Screen shot/Media material from manufacturer of system.

 

FULL "Really Big" LIST::

Image Editors: * YOU WOULD BE SURPRISED HOW POWERFUL COPY/PASTE IS, IN THE BEGINNING OF LEARNING THIS

• Kirita: is your most "powerful" (and complex) image editor. It can handle EXR/RAW "16bit images" Requires pugins for optimal use. *Typically not for DDS files.
• Paint.net: is your most "versatile" (and not too complex) image editor. It can handle DDS files, MipMaps & Encoding by default. "8bit images" ONLY. I suggest "optimized png" and normals plugins. *Typically for advanced plugins retouches DDS files "detailed" viewing.

DDS encoding: past using paint.net on simple stuff. Remember to "use the slightest sharpening" & ALWAYS convert images over 4K to 16bit PRE-DDS encoding

* DO: Use DXT5 BC3 for everything (other than A8/L8). The quality is just better. Sure its bigger, but I'm sure alpha info can be "wiped"...somehow?. (Oddly few color maps "need" alpha, atleast from what I see)
* DO NOT use cuda/gpu accelerated encoding in "production work"..its just not as nice as "pure CPU" on "slowest
* DO NOT save normals as low quality "grey scale"...use as much/many shades as possible, all "normals" should be grey as "dds" files
* DO NOT use BC6h or BC7 until I figure out what is going on with them and unity & KSP. You can turn off alpha on DXT-5 BC3 in the "DDS Converter" tool. I need to test, but if its good, DXT1 holds VERY little benifit to a "Mordern Gaming PC, with a GPU" user
* DO NOT use a DirectX 10+ "Header" or "wrap to output range". The header makes KSP just not see the file, and wrapping to output range can make wild artifacts (but not always, I'd test if you want to see)

• AMD "GPU OPEN" GUI TOOL: WARNING- NO!...I just cant get this to behave. Saves as ".DDS" not ".dds", Images just dont work out. Nvidia tool is just better made for GUI use 
• VVVV DDS Converter, GUI: Easy, Simple effective for "light" or "bulk" work. I wouldn't call it "production quality" though...but super good for smaller stuff. It likes png's and jpgs (I suggest png's with the "optimized" Paint.net plugin, NO "extra compression"! Best you'll get from it) 
• Nvidia Texture Tool, Standalone GUI: is your most "powerful" (and useful) image encoder. It can handle EXR/RAW "16bit images", just dont toss it uncompressed Tiff or TGA's. I suggest EXR > ORA > TIFF with RLE > WebP as "text" with NO COMPRESSION! > JXR/JPEG200 (< 24BIT ONLY) > "optimized" PNG.  In that order
• TexConvGUI: MS Texconv cmd tool with a GUI. Better than DDS Converter, not as fast for testing, just avoid BC6h/BC7. It does like EXR & TIFF, Sadly lacks a image preview like DDS Converter

Image conversion\Viewing:

• Irfanview64: With full plug-in pack. Its Fast and handles all images we will view but EXR. has some ok features  but its 99% a viewer ONLY
• XnView Classic: No free viewer is this powerful. over 500 formats supported. Better "tools" than Irfanview, but its 99% a viewer only still
• XnConvert: Once you learn it...yikes its good. Spend some time reading on it and its so useful. Note: its dds is "DXT-1 BC1"/No "Alpha"/No Mipmaps, ONLY. it wants POT (power of 2) sizes or it gets...odd
• Ceasium Image Compressor: Less a compressor than optimizer/converter. In my tests no GUI tool is this good. with alpha webp support I made a 26kb file 7kb...no visual loss
• RIOT: As an app and plugin for IrfanView and XnView its unmatched for cleaning garbage, like a 4gb comment in meta data (writing a book?)

Showing off:

• Imgur: Cause instagram is... well not for this type of stuff... and its awesome. Basically limitless image storage.
• ShareX: Nothing takes an "easy custom" screenshot like shareX, nothing
• OBS: Its THE streaming software, super supported
• Lightworks: This is "easy pro level" video edition software. Very well supported by user base
• PeerTube: Cause Youtube has...odd policies. Basically limitless video storage

Easy of life: * = CAN BE A BIT "ADVANCED"

• Auslogic Disk Defrag Free: The best defragger for Windows & SSD's. Its also 100% free, like they did with page file & ram, MS just stopped caring in the year 2000
• DirectX & Drivers: I can not stress this enough. Update these OFTEN, from the website's of makers not Windows update. "Studio/Artist Driver packs" are in fact better for artists..wow
• BLEACHBIT: SO GOOD, IT WAS ONCE USED FOR EVIL? (RUMOURS SAY) CCleaner would be deleted by this as "junk"
• Classic Shell: unless your first windows was Windows 8....
• CleanMem: Cause MS stopped saving you ram with windows 98se, after that they just said "buy more"
• Bulk Rename utility: OMG the time saved...the time...
• DoubleCommander, QT build beta: Again the time and confusion it saves to have a tabbed double pane file explorer. (the Qt beta is only so it can "match themes", like dark theme in windows 7+, beta isnt needed if you dont care)
• Notepad++: < this should be everything that you dont use LibreOffice for. Its also a (not so) "simple" IDE
• LibreOffice: MS Office ++...enough said. Its better than Jatre, has plugins out the...umm...documents folder
• Mega: 50gb cloud free, with auto upload? too useful for backups
• Degoo: 100GB cloud default free...more?, without referrals +125mb per day (+0.5gb per referral), if you watch a video ad, on mobile, max 1TB. Lacks Megas ability to deal with files over 100mb (split zip big files @ 97mb per "part")
• Brave: A safe but fast web browser. Uses anything Chrome does. Has better security than Firefox
• Kaspersky AV Free: If you use nothing but this, at least its very good.
• SpyBot S&D Free: You must immunize! why get infected, to clean, then infected again next week? A super good malware scanner too 
• CPU-Z/GPU-Z: simple, compact, informative about the system your looking at.
• 7Zip: Zip method: Zip > Deflate64 (A 32BIT CPU WITH "64BIT SUPPORT" IS FINE WITH THIS) > Max word size > max compression. = smallest files with no corruption. Normal windows Winzip can see/unzip this (CKAN too)
• MSI AFTERBURNER & KOMBUSTOR, + AMD/NVIDIA/INTEL "CPU/GPU TOOLS": Get the most out of your system safely. Test the result before use! 115% stock is considered "average/safe", as "a rule of thumb" 
• Redo Rescue & Rescucezilla: Because Clonezillia has no GUI & Iperius isnt user friendly, this is an easy backup solution combo (output to your mega drive "local folder" and/or degoo cloud, "split zip" it, @ 97mb "parts", need be)
• Joplin: Logs, note, super hidden info/link....logs...to do's... lists... etc that you cant lose. Basically limitless document/web link storage
• * Github desktop: You need this if you use Github (uploading/forking), DO NOT USE WEB INTERFACE for "work"
• * SearX: The meta search engine google fears
• * WinSCP: FTP the, better, easy way
• * AIO Run times: LINK so useful I'm linking it. This is 90% of the run-times even an advanced user should need.
• * HWiNFO: EXPANSIVE INFO.Cause you really need to see details that other monitors dont give you
• * Cmdr: Run powershell...run... This is a real cmd prompt tool...
• * Visual Studio 2019: Viewing .cs projects. SUPER informative. "The IDE / Scripting tool", unless your a huge Mac head or Linux guru...
• * RichText to MarkDown/Wikimedia: Just follow the rules of "what markdown can do", formatting wise (common "Lorem ipsum", aka "gibberish/dummy" entry, the areas for imgur images inserts), inside libreoffice, life saver

"CRAZY POWER USER" TOOLS

• * NTlite: Integrate updates, drivers, automate Windows & apps setup. Speedup Windows based dev tasks & have it all set for the next time. Optionally remove OS components, simplify installs. Reduce attack vectors, free up drive space. You can do all on your existing Windows in-place, no re-install
• * qDir: Cause you need double "double commander", you multi-tasker
• * Trails (Qubes OS better), ProtonMail & VPN, Secondary "popular" email provider (you dont use normally), ClamWin & Magic Wormhole: you might be searching "odd places", for deep searches, this is a nice safe way to download scan and send yourself files
• * Windows Server 2003 x86/x64 dual boot "gena" iso. If it has a x86 cpu and 64mb ram..that boots...this boots it into a "real usable environment" with network & "modern" tool support.
• * The Windows 8.1 version of above
• * MediCat USB & All in One System Rescue Toolkit: Like the above 2 , but for If your working with a Mac or Linux only system
• * DaVinci Resolve: makes Lightworks look like MS-Movie maker
• * Ceasium, ImageMagick, Nvidia & MS DXT cmd line tools: nothing is this powerful, or easy to mess up
• * HdX: CONFUSING, POWERFUL, a "Hex editor"
• * MS DirectX "ToolKits": "REAL" DirectX "mode" testing (like your GPU is DX12, you want to test DX9c, 10.x or 11.x)
• * Mint Linux: Simple, current, popular, well supported. Good dual boot option. "REAL" OpenGL testing (Unless your a Mac user)
• * Genie: Notepad++'s "big bro"

 

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QUALITY OF FORMATS ORDERED (as masters & "Production" files):

When I mention bpp below it refers to the "channel", not "color depth". both 8bpc and 16bpc have a range of supported color depth, 24bit and 32bit included (48bit on 16bpc) 

WHEN "RGB @ 24BIT" 2BPP IS "4 COLORS/SHADES" 4BPP IS 16, 8BPP IS 256 (ADD "ALHPA/32BIT" ITS , 4096) 16BPP IS 65,536 (ADD "ALPHA/32BIT" ITS 16,777,216)

*OPEN RASTER (ORA): Why? I know its just a implementation of 16bpp TIFF, but its used for "16bpp only". This helps compartmentalize 16bpp from 8bpp, so we dont try to open a 16bpp TIFF in Paint.net, the same reason we use both KRA & PDN

Start: 16bpp: KRA (16bit) > (o)EXR(e) (16bit) > OpenRaster (ORA) (16bit storage sized) ** TIFF UN > Compressed (8bit, to share between editors) **  8bpp: PDN (8bit) > WebP "Uncompressed AS TEXT" (8bit) >  WebP "Compressed AS TEXT" (8bit storage sized) > "Optimized Uncompressed" PNG (8bpp least "quality"!) = Product: DDS DXT5-BC3 (8bit)

* PURPLE IS THE "LEAST LOSS" PATH, less format conversions (if you start PDN or KRAboth are considered a "free format") and "resizing" = better, work from 16k in 1 format > scale/convert ONCE (remember sharp/16bit!) > REDUNDANTLY backup > Save as "final production" format > encode and/or export to "distribution format" (final product) 
Example: Make a "new" 16K canvas as KRA or PDN > once done save as (open) EXR (extended) (if 16bit) or TIFF compressed as text (if 8bit) twice, once as vertically mirrored > Save each, as a backup, as ORA (for 16bit) or WebP (for 8bit) > "resize" down, if needed > encode the vertically mirrored EXR/WebP to DXT5 BC3 > thats your dds
* DXT5 BC3 seems ideal for everything, not the "nm" type, just BC3...odd, reading says otherwise...but testing gives comparisons...DXT5 BC5 is just a magic format for "quality" normals and colormaps

At 8K a 120mb KRA becomes: a 90mb EXR, 16bpp, a 27mb ORA, 16bpp, or a 11mb RLE Compressed TIFF, 8bpp, 5.5mb UNcompressed WebP, 8bpp, or a 1.4mb Compressed WebP, if 8bpp ..becoming an 85.3mb DXT5 BC3 dds file (64mb not mipped), or a 42.7mb DXT BC1 dds file (32mb not mipmapped)

This is why I store "library" files as WebP/ORA lossless compressed, @ "eack 1K 32bit" (with alpha, 1024x1024) the file size is, 8bpp WebP: under 180kb (0.175mb, 8K = 1.4mb), 16bpp ORA under 3.5mb (16K = 56mb), per image, at max quality

*WebP has format limitation of 16383x16383, for 16K (16384x16384) images @ 8bpp (ONLY for distribution! Always encode to dds at 8bpp from a TIFF!) use:

• Tiff: with RLE Compression (in Kirita: ZIP > Max > using "Horizontal Differencing") this will be 22.25mb @ 16K 8bpp (or 1.4mb per 1024x1024 image "size" @ 8bpp)

DDS ENCODING & DXT FORMATS
* Needs better custom made examples *

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COMPARING IMAGE FORMATS

 

WebP -We use WebP (& Tiff "for 16K") to COMPARTMENTALIZE 8bpc from 16bpc, "for under 16K", DXT/BC encoders "DO SEE" this format!
WebP is an open image format released in 2010 that uses both lossless and lossy compression. It was designed by Google to reduce image file size to speed up web page loading: its principal purpose is to supersede JPEG as the primary format for photographs on the web. WebP is based on VP8's intra-frame coding and uses a container based on RIFF.

In 2011, Google added an "Extended File Format" allowing WebP support for animation, ICC profile, XMP and Exif metadata, and tiling.

The support for animation allowed for converting older animated GIF to animated WebP.

The WebP container (i.e., RIFF container for WebP) allows feature support over and above the basic use case of WebP (i.e., a file containing a single image encoded as a VP8 key frame). The WebP container provides additional support for:

• Lossless compression – An image can be losslessly compressed, using the WebP Lossless Format. BYE-BYE PNG
• Metadata – An image may have metadata stored in EXIF or XMP formats....."What's the Big Deal? It's just Metadata.".... lol BYE-BYE, WE WILL DELETE YOU
• Transparency – An image may have transparency, i.e., an alpha channel. BYE-BYE PNG
• Color Profile – An image may have an embedded ICC profile as described by the International Color Consortium. ODDLY: BYE-BYE xfc
• Animation – An image may have multiple frames with pauses between them, making it an animation. BYE-BYE GIF

PNG - old, big, lossy, its not a "bad" format, like jpg isnt... its just not optimal, DXT/BC encoders "DO SEE" this format! (who cares)

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The PNG (Portable Network Graphics) file format was created as a free, open-source alternative to GIF. The PNG file format supports eight-bit paletted images (with optional transparency for all palette colors) and 24-bit truecolor (16 million colors) or 48-bit truecolor with and without alpha channel – while GIF supports only 256 colors and a single transparent color.

Compared to JPEG, PNG excels when the image has large, uniformly colored areas. Even for photographs – where JPEG is often the choice for final distribution since its compression technique typically yields smaller file sizes – PNG is still well-suited to storing images during the editing process because of its lossless compression.

PNG provides a patent-free replacement for GIF (though GIF is itself now patent-free), and can also replace many common uses of TIFF. Indexed-color, grayscale, and truecolor images are supported, plus an optional alpha channel. The Adam7 interlacing allows an early preview, even when only a small percentage of the image data has been transmitted. PNG can store gamma and chromaticity data for improved color matching on heterogeneous platforms.

PNG is designed to work well in online viewing applications like web browsers and can be fully streamed with a progressive display option. PNG is robust, providing both full file integrity checking and simple detection of common transmission errors.

Animated formats derived from PNG are MNG and APNG, which is backwards compatible with PNG and supported by most browsers.

 

PNG, APNG, MNG has largely been superseded by WebP.

HDR raster formats - We MAY START using JPEG XR to COMPARTMENTALIZE BC6H for HDR (if ever), unsure, DXT/BC encoders "DO SEE" this format!
Most typical raster formats cannot store HDR data (32 bit floating point values per pixel component), which is why some relatively old or complex formats are still predominant here, and worth mentioning separately. Newer alternatives are showing up, though. RGBE is the format for HDR images originating from Radiance and also supported by Adobe Photoshop.

OpenEXR - DXT/BC encoders "DO SEE" this format!, the "end-all/be-all" format, but WebP holds 24bit & 32bit 8bpc images far "smaller" at same quality as it, inside its "format size limit" (WebP is good for us upto 8192x8192), We use EXR to COMPARTMENTALIZE 8bpc from 16bpc
in the future we may use with/beside a 24bit 16bpc format to further COMPARTMENTALIZE image "types", to save confusion & prevent errors

A high dynamic range raster file format, released as an open standard along with a set of software tools created by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), under a free software license similar to the BSD license.

It is notable for supporting multiple channels of potentially different pixel sizes, including 32-bit unsigned integer, 32-bit and 16-bit floating point values, as well as various compression techniques which include lossless and lossy compression algorithms. It also has arbitrary channels and encodes multiple points of view such as left- and right-camera images

OpenEXR, or EXR for short, is a deep raster format developed by ILM and broadly used in the computer-graphics industry, both visual effects and animation.

OpenEXR's multi-resolution and arbitrary channel format makes it appealing for compositing, as it alleviates several painful elements of the process. Since it can store arbitrary channels—specular, diffuse, alpha, RGB, normals, and various other types—in one file, it takes away the need to store this information in separate files. The multi-channel concept also reduces the necessity to "bake" in the aforementioned data to the final image. If a compositer is not happy with the current level of specularity, they can adjust that specific channel.

OpenEXR's API makes tools development a relative ease for developers. Since there are almost never two identical production pipelines, custom tools always need to be developed to address problems, e. g. image manipulation issue. OpenEXR's library allows quick and easy access to the image's attributes such as tiles and channels.

OpenRaster - Thanks Adobe, but WHY? if DXT/BC encoders "saw" this it would be the "end-all/be-all" format. We use ORA to COMPARTMENTALIZE 8bpc from 16bpc

A file format proposed for the common exchange of layered images between raster graphics editors. It is meant as a replacement for later versions of the Adobe PSD format. OpenRaster is still in development and so far is supported by a few programs. The default file extension for OpenRaster files is ".ora"

Designed as a replacement to the Adobe Photoshop PSD file format. Widely used as a cross-application file format for layered images. Adobe allowed this by releasing the format's specifications publicly. In 2006 Adobe changed this license to only grant access to and use of the specifications and documentation "for the purposes of internally developing Developer Programs in connection with Adobe Software products and incorporating portions or all of the Sample Code into Developer Programs. In response to these restrictions, the OpenRaster format was proposed by KDE and Krita developers Boudewijn Rempt and Cyrille Berger at the first Libre Graphics Meeting at Lyon, France in the spring of 2006 and is drawn from the Open Document Format

 

• General GOOD INFO ON FORMAT:
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  • full freely available documentation
    OpenDocument type of file format (archive with multiple files inside)
    extensible, but private undocumented extensions should be excluded, any extension should be added to the spec and documentation of the file format
    applications are not expected to support all features of the file format, but when manipulating the file they should not lose any information they cannot handle
  • Metadata
    
    storage of metadata using {XMP – Dublin Core – IPTC} tags
    possibility of storing metadata tags per layer
    storage of Exif tags
    all text data in Unicode (UTF-8 or UTF-16)

   

  • Layers
    
    storage of multiple layers
    storage of each layer's coordinates
    storage of blending (compositing) options for each layer
    storage of adjustment layers
    storage of layer effects
    groups of layers
    color information – profile, colorspace
  • Other
    
    storage of paths, clipping paths and text on path
    selections and masks
    embedding documents within OpenDocument frameworks
    support undo, history of commands and actions (like PSD)
  • Proposals and extensions
    
    palette
    embedded fonts (proposal to extension)
    multiple pages
    animation support using multiple pages and a timer (like PSD)

   

   

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JPEG-HDR - We MAY START using JPEG-HDR to COMPARTMENTALIZE 24bit 8bpc, unsure, JPEG-2000 is related, DXT/BC encoders "DO SEE" this format (as jpeg-2000)!

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a file format from Dolby Labs similar to RGBE encoding, standardized as JPEG XT Part 2.

JPEG XT Part 7 includes support for encoding floating point HDR images in the base 8-bit JPEG file using enhancement layers encoded with four profiles (A-D); Profile A is based on the RGBE format and Profile B on the XDepth format from Trellis Management.

 

JPEG XR - We MAY START using JPEG XR to COMPARTMENTALIZE 24bit HDR 16bpc, or if quality trumps size, replace WebP,  unsure, DXT/BC encoders "DO SEE" this format!

JPEG extended range (or Jpeg xr and/or jxr) is a still-image compression standard and file format for continuous tone photographic images, based on technology originally developed and patented by Microsoft under the name HD Photo (formerly Windows Media Photo). It supports both lossy and lossless compression, and is the preferred image format for Ecma-388 Open XML Paper Specification documents.

Support for the format is available in Adobe Flash Player 11.0, Adobe AIR 3.0, Sumatra PDF 2.1, Windows Imaging Component, .NET Framework 3.0, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Internet Explorer 9, Internet Explorer 10, Internet Explorer 11, Pale Moon 27.2. As of August 2014, there were still no cameras that shoot photos in the JPEG XR (.JXR) format.Capabilities

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JPEG XR is an image file format that offers several key improvements over JPEG, including:

Better compression
JPEG XR file format supports higher compression ratios in comparison to JPEG for encoding an image with equivalent quality.

Lossless compression
JPEG XR also supports lossless compression. The signal processing steps in JPEG XR are the same for both lossless and lossy coding. This makes the lossless mode simple to support and enables the "trimming" of some bits from a lossless compressed image to produce a lossy compressed image.

Tile structure support
A JPEG XR coded image can be segmented into tile regions. The data for each region can be decoded separately. This enables rapid access to parts of an image without needing to decode the entire image. When a type of tiling referred to as "soft tiling" is used, the tile region structuring can be changed without fully decoding the image and without introducing additional distortion.

Support for more color accuracy
JPEG XR supports a wide variety of image color representations in addition to the conventional 8-bit-per-sample YUV (formally YCbCr) 4:2:0 encoding that is typically used for the original JPEG standard.
For support of images using an RGB color space, JPEG XR includes an internal conversion to the YCoCg color space, and supports a variety of bit depth and color representation packing schemes. These can be used with and without an accompanying alpha channel for shape masking and semi-transparency support, and some of them have much higher precision than what has typically been used for image coding. They include:

• Low bit-depth packings of RGB into 16 bits per pixel using 5 bits for each channel or 5 bits for red and blue and 6 bits for green
• 8 bits per component (sometimes called true color) packed into 24 or 32 bits per pixel
• 10 bits per component in a 32 bit packed representation (one of several higher-precision varieties of color representation known as deep color)
• 16 bits per component as integers, fixed-point numbers, or half-precision floating-point numbers packed into 48 or 64 bits
• 32 bits per component as fixed-point numbers or full-precision floating point numbers packed into 96 or 128 bits (for which lossless coding is not supported due to the excessively high precision)
• JPEG XR also supports 16-bit per component (64-bit per pixel) integer CMYK color model.

16-bit and 32-bit fixed point color component codings are also supported in JPEG XR. In such encodings, the most-significant 4 bits of each color channel are treated as providing additional "headroom" and "toe room" beyond the range of values that represents the nominal black-to-white signal range.
Moreover, 16-bit and 32-bit floating point color component codings are supported in JPEG XR. In these cases the image is interpreted as floating point data, although the JPEG XR encoding and decoding steps are all performed using only integer operations (to simplify the compression processing).
The shared-exponent floating point color format known as RGBE (Radiance) is also supported, enabling more faithful storage of High Dynamic Range (HDR) images.
In addition to RGB and CMYK formats, JPEG XR also supports grayscale and multi-channel color encodings with an arbitrary number of channels.
The color representations, in most cases, are transformed to an internal color representation. The transformation is entirely reversible, so that this color transformation step does not introduce distortion and thus lossless coding modes can be supported.

Transparency map support
An alpha channel may be present to represent transparency, so that alpha blending overlay capability is enabled.

Compressed-domain image modification
In JPEG XR, full decoding of the image is unnecessary for converting an image from a lossless to lossy encoding, reducing the fidelity of a lossy encoding, or reducing the encoded image resolution.
Full decoding is also unnecessary for certain editing operations such as cropping, horizontal or vertical flips, or cardinal rotations.
The tile structure for access to image regions can also be changed without full decoding and without introducing distortion.

Metadata support
A JPEG XR image file may optionally contain an embedded ICC color profile, to achieve consistent color representation across multiple devices.
Exif and XMP metadata formats are also supported.

 

HEIF/AV1 - Ok Mac head, teach me your "witchcraft" (please I mean that)
The High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF) is an image container format that was standardized by MPEG on the basis of the ISO base media file format. While HEIF can be used with any image compression format, the HEIF standard specifies the storage of HEVC intra-coded images and HEVC-coded image sequences taking advantage of inter-picture prediction.

BAT - See PNG- superseded by JPEG 2000

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BAT was released into the public domain by C-Cube Microsystems. The "official" file format for JPEG files is SPIFF (Still Picture Interchange File Format), but by the time it was released, BAT had already achieved wide acceptance. SPIFF, which has the ISO designation 10918-3, offers more versatile compression, color management, and metadata capacity than JPEG/BAT, but it has little support. It may be superseded by JPEG 2000/DIG 2000: ISO SC29/WG1, JPEG – Information Links. Digital Imaging Group, "JPEG 2000 and the DIG: The Picture of Compatibility."

FLIF (Free Lossless Image Format) – WAITING FOR THIS!!!

A work-in-progress lossless image format which claims to outperform PNG, lossless WebP, lossless BPG and lossless JPEG2000 in terms of compression ratio. It uses the MANIAC (Meta-Adaptive Near-zero Integer Arithmetic Coding) entropy encoding algorithm, a variant of the CABAC (context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding) entropy encoding algogithm.

TGA (TARGA), obsolete  TIFF - We use Tiff to COMPARTMENTALIZE 8bpc from 16bpc & "Share", at max quality, between Kirita & Paint.net - "IF A FILE FORMAT WAS YOUR COOL UNCLE OR SLIGHTLY OLDER NEIGHBOR" WHEN YOU WERE A TEENAGER....

Replaced by Tiff, which is being vastly replaced by EXR. ORA, WebP, Jpeg-XR & "Advanced Container" formats like KRA/PDN. Tiff is stiff VERY useful in editing as a "sharing format" with 8 & 16 bpc, support PAST 32bit color &, basically, universal support across OS's, applications & web browsers. 

• It can have "Lossless Compression" also, in many formats, but "RLE", sometimes called "ZIP with Horizontal differencing", offers THE BEST ratios at file size and quality 
• We will consider this a wise old format of the "previous era", but we arnt "digital art pros" Tiff can do more than I understand, its MORE than fine 
• DXT/BC encoders "DO SEE" this format!

VICAR file format (NASA/JPL image transport format)- WOOT!!!

Container formats of raster graphics editors
These image formats contain various images, layers and objects, out of which the final image is to be composed

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AFPhoto (Affinity Photo Document) ** NO **
CD5 (Chasys Draw Image) ** unfimilar, honestly **
CPT (Corel Photo Paint) ** NO ** (very out performed)
PSP (Corel Paint Shop Pro) ** NO ** (very out performed)
SAI (Paint Tool SAI)** unfimilar, honestly **

KRA (Krita) - A LOVE SONG, AS AN IMAGE FORMAT, We use KRA to COMPARTMENTALIZE 16bpc from 8bpc

THE best, like better than Photoshop "the best" (if you use it "along side" Paint.net) 16bpc EXR, ORA, Tiff High (16bpc) and RAW, plus more 

MDP (Medibang and FireAlpaca)  ** unfimilar, honestly **

PDN (Paint Dot Net) - A POP SONG, AS A FILE FORMAT, We use PDN to COMPARTMENTALIZE 8bpc from 16bpc

THE best, like better than Photoshop "the best" (if you use it "along side" Kirita) 8bpc EVERY FORMAT (basically) OPTIMIZED, DDS ENCODES, GENERATES MIPMAPS! Plus more 
 

PSD (Adobe PhotoShop Document) ** NO ** $$$$$$ but thanks for open sourcing ORA
 

* XCF (eXperimental Computing Facility format, native GIMP format)  ** NO ** (very out performed, not even an image format or "real" icc represented), FOR MIT, not paint by number

xfc is a file container for many things, not suitable for production images! Sorry GIMP, just copy KRA format..its open source too

Vector formats -booo, these freak me out

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Further information: Vector graphics
As opposed to the raster image formats above (where the data describes the characteristics of each individual pixel), vector image formats contain a geometric description which can be rendered smoothly at any desired display size.

At some point, all vector graphics must be rasterized in order to be displayed on digital monitors. Vector images may also be displayed with analog CRT technology such as that used in some electronic test equipment, medical monitors, radar displays, laser shows and early video games. Plotters are printers that use vector data rather than pixel data to draw graphics.

 

SVG - THE DEVIL!  If some Inkscape guru wants to explain this in detail I will put it in the OP in a section with details "spoiled"
SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is an open standard created and developed by the World Wide Web Consortium to address the need (and attempts of several corporations) for a versatile, scriptable and all-purpose vector format for the web and otherwise. The SVG format does not have a compression scheme of its own, but due to the textual nature of XML, an SVG graphic can be compressed using a program such as gzip. Because of its scripting potential, SVG is a key component in web applications: interactive web pages that look and act like applications.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_file_formats
Pay special attention to PNG vs WebP, both Uncomprssed & Losslessly Compressed
Note on 24bit: WebP is likley the "best ratio" of size to quality with 32bit support. For 24bit I would bet $$ its still "best ratio", jxr (jpeg xr), jpeg200 jgp xr
 

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 Both AVIF and HEIF are currently being considered as possible replacements for the universal JPEG format because, among other technical contributions, both can reduce file size by about 50% while maintaining equivalent quality. As of May 2020, there is no native browser support for HEIF, while both Google's Chromium and Mozilla's Firefox have experimental AVIF support. Facebook supports the upload of HEIC but converts to JPEG or WEBP on display.

 

 

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 "WORKS ON MY PC"

    Note on HumanStuff Easy Builder Workshop ...in almost 10 years there was a single other attempt at this, by TextureReplacerReplaced by @HaArLiNsH. 

• This isnt as advanced as it uses TR mod (not doing it myself), But I promise to add EVERY SINGLE TEXTURE POSSIBLE

 FORGIVE COLOR SIZE, MAJOR CHANGES TO PACK WITH IMPORTANT INFO "HIGHLIGHTED"

You can now go from player to self or community modder with ease! 

HumanStuff Easy Builder Workshop & Texture Library v1.1.1 - "Raster", is LIVE Size: 2.4Gb fully zipped "ZIP" archive of 7z's

Fully "unzipped" size: 7.16Gb, fully "installed" + "Library + WORKBIN" (Full pack install) size: Approximately 29.4Gb (7.24Gb Win8.1, 4224mb PAGE FILE, 5.5Gb Library, 12.5GB tools, with unneeded tool/addons installers deleted)

FITS ON A "32GB NAND FLASH SSD" (REALLY 31224MB OR 30.4GB) WITH 1.1GB TO "SPARE" AFTER PAGE FILE (PAGE FILE/FILE CACHE SET TO "SAFE CLEAR" at 1.05Gb,  along with TEMP FILE MAX OF 0.255GB SET TO "SAFE AUTO CLEAN" AT 0.25Gb), I work off a "SD Express 3.1, 1x" 985mb read/write SD Card (set to fixed)  for "D:/" drive

Forgive screenshot age: Ill take newer 1

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Main zip is a "ultra" setting "M$ type zip", Windows XP could open it, 7z support required (They are Format: 7z: LZMA2 on Ultra, Dictionary: 1536mb, Word size: 274, Block: Solid) for internal 7z's

THE WORK THIS TOOK! IT WAS LIKE 22 HOURS STRAIGHT!

DO NOT MOVE FOLDERS/FILES IN "WORKBIN" FOLDER AFTER YOU MOVE THE MAIN "HumanStuff_EasyBuilderWorkshop" FOLDER TO THE ROOT OF A DRIVE

• ROOT = C:\ OR D:\ OR H:\ ETC, EXAMPLE: C:\HumanStuff_EasyBuilderWorkshop\WORKBIN
• THE "*.bat" FILES ARE DESIGNED TO WORK AS FOLDERS ARE "BUILT". ONLY ADD, MOVE DELETE IMAGES TO CONVERT TO DDS AND THE RESULTING DDS FILES.
• MOVING OR RENAMIG THE FOLDERS WILL BREAK THE "EASY" PART OF THE PACK! AND THE "*.bat" WILL REMAKE THE FOLDERS, THEY INTERACT WITH, WHEN RUN

Change Log # //HumanStuff_EasyBuilderWorkshop//

1.1.1

• - NUMBERED INSTALL ORDER FOR TOOLS, PLEASE FOLLOW THAT ORDER! (SEE PICS)
• -FULL "Easy Builder Workshop" Directory (aka: Folder) structure built.
• - ALL *.dds FILES REMOVED
• - ADDED EXR SUPPORT TO TEXCONV CMD LINE TOOL & GUI TOOL!
• - Custom BAT FILES for TexConv for non-CLI accustom users, v.flip is DEFAULT!
• - Auto installer added for all users, great for PROs, LIFESAVER to the learner
• - ALL BUNDLEWARE REMOVED, AV SCANNED LOCAL AND ONLINE, MD5 CHECKED, ALL FIXED PRE-DONE (Ceasium 2 alpha, TexConv CMD/GUI TOOLS, VARIOUS OTHERS, PLUGINS UPDATED)
• - ALL CODECS, LINKS TO RUN TIMES, PLUGINS ETC ARE AS NEW AS TIME OF PACKING (ALWAYS CHECK FOR UPDATES, WEEKLY LIKE SUNDAY AFTERNOON)
• - WINDOWS 64BIT PREVIOUS TO 7 REQUIRE ADDITIONAL RUN TIMES. ASK ME
• - WINDOWS 32BIT PREVIOUS TO & INCLUDING 8.1/10 REQUIRE ADDITIONAL RUN TIMES. ASK ME
• - WINDOWS 32BIT & 64BIT PREVIOUS TO VISTA/7 (READ: 2000/XP, NO MS STORE etc) REQUIRE A SPECIAL PRE-MADE INSTALL IMAGE/DISC/USB & ALTERNATIVE TOOL INSTALLS *ASK ME
• ^*- YOU MUST SUPPLY YOUR OWN COA (KEY) - OR HAVE DOWNGRADE RIGHTS FROM OWNED COA (KEY)
• Out of convention with other mods: I will be including all "READ ME USER" intended Docs to RTF (rich text format, as an 8088 powered PC PC-XT or XT running DOS 3.0 & Windows 1.0 from 1985 can even open them with "MS Write")
• Out of convention with other mods: I will be including all "ADVANCED USER TUTORIALS" as both RFT's & PDF's in Text, Plus Video versions in WMV at "ED" 576p25 (at 16:9, 1024x576p25 & at 4:3, 768x576p25, It will look magical!) 
• VIDEOS: Will be hosted by me on Google drive (it can play them direct!), for download or viewing due to size. NEW linux users...message me for a player with good WMV support, oddly Quicktime is "ok" for both Mac & Linux users to view them.
  • The method: I used a short video clip, in:

 

Table 1: MY PC "CRUSHING" small video of my wife and cat. Spoiled: (ps i totally had to copy past a "box" in to fill in: how do i make a good 1)

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Format	Codec	file Size	Quality	Time to crush (min:sec.)
good	1 region no	to big! 4 max	I want "good+"!	I want under 20:00 (But over 9:59)
.avi	NTSC DV	37.7Mb	Excellent	:8.7
old	works	GOOD	blah	wow
.f4v	Match Source	2.29Mb	Fair	:5.1
GOOD	works	Ok	Good	blah
H.264	Match Source (Keyframe 30)	5.31 Mb	Good	:14.1
ODD	works	better	blah	wow
QuickTime	H.264 (keyframe 30)	4.21 Mb	Fair	:7.8
ODD, but better
its flv	works	GOOD	BLAH
Sorenson Flash	Flv (720)	2.21Mb	Fair	1:04.6 over 1 hour
S-CLASS FOUND!
PERFECT!	GOOD FOR BIG OR SMALL	NICE!!	ALRIGHT!
Squeeze wmv	Custom 576p/25p	2.71Mb	Good-very good	:11.2 < PERFECT!
MAYBE?	MAYBE	MAYBE	MAYBE
Windows Media	Custom 600p/30p	2.59Mb	Very Good	:20.75 < Bit Long, but 30FPS
Conclusion: Squeeze wmv, 576P at 25FPS 4:3 & 16:9, Videos look good but are "small", WMV 9 codec for A/V, Bitrate: 3 Mbps, 25 fps, test sized at 720x576p

 

 

 

Remarks on TexConv CMD & GUI tools: (Additions pre-done, this is not only permitted in EULA, it is suggested until they are default in next releases)

• When loading BMP files, if the WIC codec fails to load the image, the texconv tool will check to see if it's an Extended BMP containing DXT1, DXT3, or DXT5 compressed data. The tool does not support writing Extended BMP files. Typically you need to use -vflip with such files as well.
• PRE-Done: Support for OpenEXR (EXR) can be added to the texconv utility. Uncomment #define USE_OPENEXR in the source, and add the DirectXTex auxiliary module to the project. See Adding OpenEXR for more details including building the OpenEXR library. This adds exr as an option for -ft.

INPUT file-type: The file type for the INPUT texture. Use one of the following. The default value is *.*.

• bmp: Windows BMP
• jpg, jpeg: Joint Photographic Experts Group
• png: Portable Network Graphics
• dds: DirectDraw Surface (Direct3D texture file format)
• tga: Truevision Graphics Adapter
• hdr: Radiance RGBE
• tif, tiff: Tagged Image File Format
• wdp, hdp, jxr: Windows Media Photo
• ppm, pfm: Portable PixMap, Portable FloatMap (Netpbm)
• exr OpenEXR
• or a WIC-supported format (bmp, jpg, png, jxr, etc.).

OUTPUT file-type: The file type for the OUTPUT texture. Use one of the following. The default value is *.dds.

• bmp: Windows BMP
• jpg, jpeg: Joint Photographic Experts Group
• png: Portable Network Graphics
• dds: DirectDraw Surface (Direct3D texture file format)
• tga: Truevision Graphics Adapter
• hdr: Radiance RGBE
• tif, tiff: Tagged Image File Format
• wdp, hdp, jxr: Windows Media Photo
• ppm, pfm: Portable PixMap, Portable FloatMap (Netpbm)
• exr OpenEXR

ADDITIONAL OPEN DOMAIN CREDITS: Pandoc.org, Rodz Labs, Holger Dammertz, xNormal.org, K. Kolasinski, Voidtools (David Carpenter), typora.io, J. Rathlev, IEAP, Uni-Kiel, LIGHTNING UK! XnSoft, Irfan Skiljan, BoltBit,, Mankua Software, Paint.NET., krita.org, BinomialLLC, MS Texconv, OpenEXR, zlib, Meso, u7angel, woei, DarthAazard < me

• To my understanding: Nothing supplied violates EULA/TOS and/or Licences. No tools, documents, etc and/or changes/alterations have been made require licencing, only accreditation, they are on sites/ in the repo PR and suggested by dev's. Any existing readme, etc documents are included.  

PICs:

Spoiler

TexConv_IMG_2_BC1_UNORM_NO_MIPMAPS.bat IN NOTEPAD++ & THE DXT_BC33 bat IN ACTION (RED IS GOOD ON EYES!)

The Full Detailed List:

Spoiled:

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** Warning files : To remind you!

00 ShutUp Win10: If you use win10, You want this.

01 CleanMem: Manages ram better than anything else free

02 Brave Web Browser: Fast, safe, pays you for ads, like $14 USD per month (Please support HumanStuff with a donation of 1 BAT monthly if you could be so kind, that’s about $0.22 USD)

03 HumanStuff Ninite Auto Installer: No crap, no bundle ware, no extra languages, installs to default location, IT’S THE SAFEST WAY TO DO A NEW PC SETUP, IF NOT FROM A DISK IMAGE.

·         Run it again to update all!

·         I could list them all, but a picture is worth a few hundred words:

04 Kapersky free Cloud: The best free AV in tests, if its too ram/cpu “heavy” on your system, Avast is the lightest of the “best” free Anti-Virus, see chart below

04-alt, Avast Free Anti-Virus: https://www.avast.com/en-ca/index#pc GREAT ALTERNATIVE!

Free Anti-Virus Program (and Norton for comparison)	Memory Usage (MB) smaller better	Scan Speed (MB/s) bigger better
Avast Antivirus (Free, post Nirto)	6.6	20.0
Norton Antivirus (Paid)	9.9	36.3
Kaspersky Antivirus (Free Cloud)	23.0	34.4
AVG Antivirus (Free)	29.6	32.4

 

05 Cleaning Tools:

·         BleachBit: So good it was once used for evil, google it

·         Bulk Crap Uninstaller: Cause everyone wants to add crap to installers for some reason

06 Personal Backup: THE BEST free in OS backup for windows. Can backup open/locked files.

07 Windows Enhancements:

·         Auslogic Disk Deframrgmentor: Best free defrag for HDD’s & SSD’s

·         Cmder: Windows CMD line “make easy” tool

·         DoubleCommander QT build: The BEST double pane & tabbed file explorer

·         Ghostscript libraries: You’ll need these, trust me

·         G'MIC: GREYC's Magic for Image Computing is a full-featured open-source framework for digital image processing, distributed under the CeCILL free software licenses

·         NtLite: Intelligent solutions for Windows integration and customization

·         O&O RegEditor: A much better and SAFER reg editor

·         UltraCopier: Because the windows shell one is slow and corrupts big (like huge) files. Replaces the Windows context “copy” menu

·         ImgBurn: The most powerful and expandable with plugins Disc writer/reader, CAUTION stand-alone install may attempt to add bundle ware, Ninite auto-installer auto declines

08 Office Tools:

·         Bulk File Rename Utility: This is a super time saver, espally when you have added an prefix in an image converter

·         Jarte: Makes Wordpad a real word processor (nearly “stand alone” ms-word equal for most tasks) that opens txt, rtf, docx, doc, odf. SAVES TO: txt, rtf, doc, odf

·         Pandoc: cmd tool that can make basically anydocument into anyother type, INSANLY POWERFUL

·         Turtl: A note and bookmark organizer better than evernote, (because Joplin is too large to package and has no on-line installer) JOPLIN IS BETTER

·         Typora: The greatest What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) markdown editor, supports pretty much everything (one beta ends this will go payware, currently its mixed source FREE, when beta ends you may keep or switch to JOPLIN)

09 Image Tools:

·         3D Tools:

o   Material Maker: Free and powerful texture generator/editor

o   Quixel Mixer: THE free 3D tool, along with Blender (or B for Artists)

o   TexGraph: Free, Powerful, light

o   Texture Lab: Free, powerful, full featured, not so light

·         Convert & Optimize Image Tools

o   Caesium Image Compressor 1.7 & 20 Beta (Fixed via PR rebuild, zilflop.dll typo lol, repackaged with PB Installer Maker), CaesiumPH LOSSLESS OPTIMIZER

o   RIOT & ROIT Plugin for other applications: Super good at what its made to do, FREE

o   XnConvert: The most powerful/fastest image converter etc. HAS BULK “BATCHING” FEATURES

o   System Monitoring (for errors in Conversion/Encoding debugging): CPU-Z, GPU-z, HWiNFO and DirectX Dialogistic tool (its built into directx drivers)

·         DDS ENCODE / COMPRESS TOOLS

o   COMMAND LINE, aka CLI, TOOLS:

§  AMD Compressinator CLI tool (zip is misnamed GUI tool, will fix next release)

§  Enhanced Crunch Binomial’s Tree: Makes the LOWEST RAM using DDS files! But the quality isn’t “great”!

§  Nvidia Texture Exporter CLI tools: VERY powerful if abit OLD!

§  TexConv CLI TOOL: THE MOST UP TO DATE DDS COMPRESSOR/ENCODER, GET GUI HERE , https://vvvv.org/contribution/texconvgui , I’ll add it next release.  (PR fixed and OpenEXR support added)

o   GUI TOOLS:

§  AMD Compressinator GUI TOOL: I never have good results with this on anything BUT DXT1-BC1…AVOID!

§  DDS Converter 1.4: The original, still VERY fast for bulk small textures with a display window

§  DDS Converter 2.1: The enchaned version of above, a few old features were removed (so we have both)

§  Nvidia Texture Exporter Tool: THE BEST TOOL with a GUI, BEST QUALITY OF A GUI TOOL, TUTORIAL PDF INCLUDED

o   Image Format Codecs:

§  AV1

§  HEIF

§  HEVC

§  MPEG2

§  VP9

§  EXR/ORA (they are added by Krita)

§  Almost Every other format (added by Paint.net & its Plugins)

o   PC CPU, RAM, GPU Tweakers:

§  MSI Afterburner: The GPU overclocker EVERYONE uses, so SUPER well documented/supported. Light. Has FPS counter, SAFE! Use its forum to find “best average setting” for your GPU

§  AMD or Intel CPU Overclocking tools (Ryzen Master or similar): Get these yourself, correct for your CPU (CPU-Z will give you all info you need), too many “types” to include in pack

§  MSI Kombustor: FREE and light, but it can stress a Titan-X in SLI

o   Normal Map Tools:

§  AwesomeBump: Best advanced Normal map too, that I forgot to add, will add next release, get it here: https://github.com/kmkolasinski/AwesomeBump

§  Dxtbmpx: Super fast and light, powerful

§  ModLab: The hard to get off stream version

§  XNormal: The Normal Map tool

o   Paint.net Plugins:

§  My personal: “Filetypes”, “filters”, “effects”, & “brushes” pack (EVERY file type you need that Paint.net can handle is in here)

§  BoltBits: Enhanced pack

§  G’MIC: for Paint.Net

o   Raster Editors:

§  PixaFlux: Its small powerful and has AWESOME compare image tools (like the best ever)

o   Test Tool:

§  DDSopti: Final version, Awesome DDS testing app

o   Viewer Tools:

§  DDS Viewer: the MS-DX included dds viewer

§  IrfanView64, with all plugins: the fastest image viewer

§  ProgImgView: Powerful image viewer

§  SageThumbs: So windows can make thumbnails of almost any image file type

§  XnView Classic: The most powerful image viewer there is, good companion to IrfanView, due to format support

10 Free Cloud Storage & Sync, Free approximately 1.3Tb:

·         Ymail 1Tb, WFT, 1TB?: YES! google how to use

·         Box 5Gb: Full features, the big daddy of OG clouds

·         Degoo 100Gb: basic but huge! 100mb file size limit

·         DropBox 5Gb: Its dropbox…

·         IceDrive 10Gb: Security focused

·         iDrive 5Gb: Backup focused

·         MediaFire 10Gb: FAST

·         Mega 50Gb: If it wasn’t for Degoo this would be king… almost NO LIMITS

·         pCloud 10Gb: You can stream media directly from it

·         Sync 2Gb: Its not a lot, but you can boost it to 10gb+ free

11 Show Off Tools:

·         PB Installer maker: For packaging zips into self extracting EXE’s

·         KDE Live: The most powerful free video editor, well supported, good for beginner or pro

·         OSB Studio: The streaming software everyone knows, well documented

·         Ocean Audio: Because Audacity is no longer king of the Free Audio Editor hill

12 ImgBurn Plugins: The most powerful and expandable with plugins Disc writer/reader, Ninite auto-installer doesn’t add plugins

99 ALT Links 2 HumanStuff Tools: For users that wish to mix and match tools, I have web links to about 100 free ware apps, I’ve tried them all.

 

 

I am currently retesting all tools (and a few alternatives). 

GOAL: Completely FOSS (FREE & OPEN SOURCE TOGETHER) on as much as possible with the "best in class" choices stream lined.

Namely: I WOULD LIKE A FEW FOSS WITH WINDOWS "installer" options (IE easy for a novice user or one thats "just uzip" that a can build a self-extracting installer for)

Office suggestions for:

• Jarte Replacement: Need a FULL featured word processor(+) thats "light"(small, uses little cpu/ram LIKE UNDER 10mb ram) & supports open/save of doc, (docx?), rtf, odf & txt/md (thats all we need) Bonus reads: powerpoint & Excel. NEEDS: CURRENT SUPPORT (no abiword)
• LibreOffice Replacement:: Need a FULL featured Office suite (LOCAL/On PC) thats "light"(small LIKE UNDER 99mb installer "exe" file, uses little cpu/ram LIKE under 100mb ram) & supports open/save of doc/docx, powerpoint & Excel  (thats all we need) NEEDS: CURRENT SUPPORT (no oldies)
• Turtlr vs Joplin: Joplin wins...How do we zip its installer under 99mb without "splitting it", if required I will split it
• Typoria: is in beta, not FOSS after, Joplin may be ok as a temp MarkDown editor, but we want a light "live view" WYSIWYG markdown editor, with "full formatting" toolbar and past from rtf/doc/docx/odf

WHO KNOWS UNITY CRUNCH CLI WELL?? I know Texconv, but I need to build similar *.bats for nvidia, amd and Unity Crunch as well

Image tools:

• Normal tools & "Node" tools, WE NEED TO STREAM LINE DOWN TO "ALL WE NEED", not excess
• Blender vs B for Artists....thoughts?
• Image testing vs source image... SOMETHING A NOVICE COULD READ WITH A SMALL TUTORIAL (10 min Video, few pages of PDF/rtf)
• WHY IS GIMP BROKEN IN COLOR REPRODUCTION! WHY xfc? Isnt xfc an experimental file container for scientific dev?

Image Formats:

• OpenEXR, ORA, TIFF (hi & low) HDR radiance & Webp, OptiPNG (necessary icon evil, best option to HUGE TIFF's, TGA's or 32bit JPEG types's) are all in. We could use an other format to focus on in the JPEG arena, jxr? jpeg2000? HEIF? AV1? Thoughts?? Too BIG?
• L8 (weird, its not a DXGI-DXT format) its A8L8, I dont know how to make with Texconv, but Paint.net can do it (google it for now, I'll post a how too later)
• Better HRD format? 16pbc & 8bpc? thoughts
• WHO "OPTIMIZES" these formats in their past experience? WHAT IS THE "END ALL BE ALL FREE APP" SUPPORTING THEM ALL, OR IS BEST RESULT "FOSS STITCHED TOGETHER" or PAID ONLY

DDS: DXT-BC1, DXT5-BC3, DXT-nm (which is useless just use BC3), Uncompressed dds L8 all work, even 256 levels of grey for normals (heads/suits tested) = good BUT:

• WHY DONT BC6H_UF-16 & BC6H-SF16 (any type) OR BC7 work in KSP and/or TR? They are vastly better than DXT5-BC3
• WHY is AMD/OPEN GPU Compressonator GUI making "bad" DDS (not dds) files? I can see them but I dont make textures for other games to test them on

IDE Like MS Visual Studio Or Mobo: I NEED ADVICE HERE BAD! VS2019 is "creepy M$", mono is...not to be suggesting to a learner on Windows (its install...)

•  Eclipse: <LINK. BETTER? CAN THIS REPLACE M$-VS2019 IDE?? and/or MONO IDE??
• Its a Java based IDE (integrated development environment). By Eclipse Foundation, Inc.(Ninite support it and/OR VS Code)

Textures (2D Color maps) Normals (as textures but grey), Emissives (new to me), Icons (help!), Planets & Celestial bodies (Wanted?)

• The last big super post for a long one promise..... 
• Who knows textures, see anything missing you can point me too? ANYTHING UPSIDE DOWN? ANY dds's "HIDING FROM ME" IN PACK?
• Same on normals
• what are "Emissives" do we need, how do they work?
• Icons: Who knows what we can access & HOW?!? MUST THEY BE PNG?! or "bigger" or "lower quality" formats only?

Planets & Celestial bodies Wanted?:

• Kerbin, mun, minminus..heck the "sun"...all of them are everywhere upto 16K, I can find and optimize them...
• IF PEOPLE WANT THEM VOTE IN POLL! < sneaky poll announcment Nin-Ja-AH!,
• Next poll = MASCOT IMAGE VOTE!

MAX SIZE: 16383x16383, WebP lossless (1.98mb) vs Opti-PNG max quality (6.37mb)..

• LOOK AT DPI!

 oh poop wthis was work:

TexConv_IMG_2_BC3_UNORM_MIPMAPED.bat

ECHO OFF
Setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion

::Variables
SET @FORMAT=BC3_UNORM
SET @InputFolder=%~dp0Input_IMG_TO_BC3\
SET @OutputFolder=%~dp0Output_DXT5_BC3\
SET @TEXCONVEXE=%~dp0texconv.exe
SET @TEXCONVEXE02=%~dp0texconv.exe
:: Check for texconv.exe
IF EXIST "%@TEXCONVEXE%" SET @TEXCONVEXE=1
IF "%@TEXCONVEXE%"=="1" GOTO EXESTATE_1

:EXESTATE_0
TITLE - ERROR! texconv.exe not found!!!
COLOR 04
ECHO: && ECHO: && ECHO:
ECHO                 === ERROR! texconv.exe not found!===
ECHO:
ECHO     Install Path: "%~dp0texconv.exe"
ECHO:
ECHO    The script needs texconv.exe in order to work properly.
ECHO:
ECHO    Please make sure texconv.exe is in: "%~dp0"

ECHO: && ECHO:

GOTO CONT01


:EXESTATE_1
TITLE - Texconv.exe found!!!
COLOR 0A

ECHO: && ECHO: && ECHO:
ECHO                 [ texconv.exe Is Installed! ]
ECHO:
ECHO     "%~dp0texconv.exe"
ECHO:
GOTO CONT00
:CONT01
ECHO: && ECHO:
ECHO        Please copy/move the missing texconv.exe executable to where the script needs it to be and refresh this window.
ECHO:
:CONT00
IF "%@TEXCONVEXE%"=="1" GOTO START
ECHO: && ECHO: && ECHO     [Press any key to refresh the window] && PAUSE>NUL
GOTO SetTexConvPath

:START

:: Customize CMD Window
TITLE HumanStuff TexConv Batch Directory Script v1.0.2
PROMPT $G
COLOR 04
CLS

:: Make The Folders
IF NOT EXIST "%@InputFolder%" MKDIR "%@InputFolder%"
IF NOT EXIST "%@OutputFolder%" MKDIR "%@OutputFolder%"

::Run TexConv.exe
::-srgb was added because PNG images were getting high contrast colors
::Sorry about the messy code but this was harder to do than it sounds

FOR /R "%@InputFolder%" %%i IN (*.*) DO (
set word=%@OutputFolder%
set str=%%~dpi
CALL :REPLACESTRING
SET @IFOL=!@OSTRING!
CALL :MKFOL
SET @ISTRING=%%i
CALL :TexConv01
)

PAUSE
GOTO SCRIPTEND

:MKFOL
IF NOT EXIST "%@IFOL%" (
	MKDIR "%@IFOL%"
)
GOTO SCRIPTEND

:TexConv01
IF NOT "%@LOGO%"=="" SET @LOGO=-nologo
"%@TEXCONVEXE02%" %@LOGO% -srgb -nogpu -pow2 -vflip -if triangle -bc u -f %@FORMAT% "%@ISTRING%" -o "%@OSTRING%" -y
ECHO:
SET @LOGO= 
GOTO SCRIPTEND

:REPLACESTRING
call set str=%%str:%@InputFolder%=%word%%%
set @OSTRING=!str:~0,-1!
GOTO SCRIPTEND

:SCRIPTEND

 

 

I'd like as much feedback from users as possible the 1st little bit...to smooth out pack, please

Tool Update:... 1At a time from now on... JARTE is failing me....and its a hog for being "wordpad+-"

A simple tool that doesnt work well is a hindrence, not a help. I spend more time doing the "can I, on free jarte?,.. can jarte do that at all?", Abiword died on Windows.. OO-Writer is monolithic core now after OO 4.x (soffice really) so its all or none...

SAVED BY: * Thank's @RonaldMcRagan on FOSSHUB forum for answering my

Atlantis Word processor: FREE, Limit of 2 documents open at once on free ware (not a bad limit, if they had to add 1) 3mb download, uses 5mb ram and like no noticeable cpu power... Faster than greased pigs

Here is the installer: 3.03mb beating 105mb apps? what is this assembly written? 

 

• Was "NOVA", now its Atlantic "lite", DESTROYS Jarte in testing, abitity, speed, CPU/RAM (5mb with 2 open docx) use & size (3mb).

see here Spoiled AND BIG WITH PICS 

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3mb

Makes sense:

Has Windows QT support (themes matching)

Super Customization in Tool bars:

Supported document formats

Atlantis supports documents of the following formats:

• Rich Text Format (RTF) < so does my toaster
• MS Word 6.0/95/97/2000/XP/2003 binary format (DOC) < so What
• MS Office Open XML format (DOCX) < nice
• OpenDocument format (ODT) < better
• Atlantis Encrypted format (COD) <<< ding ding @ privacy 
• MS Write (WRI) < holy F, I was just joking about this a few hours ago (1985 baby!)
• Plain text (TXT)

Free tools

  PDF Printers: CutePDF, PrimoPDF

See how to save Atlantis documents as PDFs.

 

  WordWeb Thesaurus

   tweak_epub to make changes to existing eBooks in the EPUB format. 

 

See how WordWeb integrates with Atlantis.

 

Sample documents & templates

Click here to browse our collection of sample documents and templates.

Atlantis sound schemes

The Atlantis setup installs the Atlantis Basic Sound Scheme with sounds for a small set of events (including typewriter sounds). But you can also download and install any of the custom sound schemes listed below:

  100 and 1 sounds (size: 0.5 MB)

 

  Wildlife (size: 1.8 MB)

To install any of these sound schemes, do the following:

1. Download the zipped sound scheme to your hard drive and unpack it to the "My documents\Atlantis" folder on your computer.
2. Launch Atlantis, then choose Tools | Customize | Sounds...
3. Click the topmost Browse... button, then locate the newly unpacked sound scheme file (with ASN extension).

4. Add-on spellcheckers

   Additional spellcheckers are available for a variety of languages. Use the links below to download required add-ons:

     Bulgarian   Czech   Danish   Dutch   Estonian   French   German (new spelling)   German (new + old spelling)   Greek   Hungarian   Irish   Italian   Latin   Latvian  

     Lithuanian   Norwegian (Bokmal)   Norwegian (Nynorsk)   Polish   Portuguese   Russian   Serbian   Slovak   Slovenian   Spanish   Swedish   Turkish   Ukrainian

   The word processing functions:

   • Document creation and formatting is easy, using a customizable and expandable collection of document templates and sample letters.
   • Comprehensive Style Sheet support is available for advanced users.
   • A customizable and expandable Clip Library is stocked with text and graphic items ready to be inserted in larger documents whenever suitable. The Atlantis original collections of clips include everyday phrases, letter writing elements, clip art, etc.
   • Of course, all the traditional font and paragraph formatting commands are present:
     • choice of typeface, font size, font color. A state of the art typeface preview.
     • bold, italic, underline, strikeout, double strikeout, superscript, subscript, small caps, all caps, shadow, outline, emboss, engrave.
     • choice of 17 underline styles; choice of underline color.
     • character spacing, scaling, kerning, vertical offset.
     • fully customizable tab stops.
     • left/right paragraph indent, first line indent and outdent.
     • spacing before/after paragraph, 6 types of interline spacing.
     • keep with next paragraph, keep intact, page break before, widow/orphan control.
     • and plenty more, only a key press or mouse click away...
   • More than 20 fields are supported. The corresponding items are quickly inserted and automatically updated by Atlantis. Fields make document and template creation very flexible. What's more, we have made sure that fields are not restricted to advanced users: using fields in Atlantis is child's play!
   • Words can be hyphenated across lines automatically or manually.
   • You can create newspaper-type columns, divide documents into sections, each section with its own page settings.
   • You have two graphic-type formatting modes to change font color and highlight text. You will use specific mouse pointers to format text in the same way as you would with a paint brush.
   • Atlantis introduces a revolutionary approach to document formatting with a Format Palette and Brush. Even the most complex formatting jobs can be done exclusively with a brush-like mouse cursor and a palette loaded with formatting templates. You can use the Atlantis default palette or customize your own format palettes in any way you like.
   • The Format Palette is only one of the instruments present on the Atlantis Control Board. The Atlantis Control Board brings together all the tools and commands that are required to create both simple and complex documents with the greatest of ease. Each panel of the Atlantis Control Board is dedicated to one specific characteristic of the active document. You have separate overviews of the document Headings, Bookmarks, Sections, Styles, or Lists, with all the related commands directly available from each specific panel of the Control Board. Tools and commands to manage Headings are on hand on the "Headings" panel, tools and commands to manage Bookmarks are on hand on the "Bookmarks" panel. Etc. This gives you unequaled power and flexibility.
   • The AutoCorrect feature of Atlantis has fully customizable multilingual options, and will dramatically simplify your word processing life. It combines flexibility with power for unparalleled control over the typing and formatting of documents. Some of the Atlantis AutoCorrect functions are still unheard-of in today's top-end word processors. Texts are proofread in the background "As-You-Type", or, optionally, when typing is complete.
   • A multilingual spellchecker will help you create documents with perfect language. Spelling is checked "As-You-Type", or, again, optionally, when typing is complete. Original Atlantis Spellcheckers are available for 16 languages or dialects. And of course, you can create and augment as many custom dictionaries as you wish.
   • Power Type is a typing assist adding unique functionality to Atlantis. Working in close cooperation with our proprietary spellchecker engine, Power Type collects statistical information about the texts that you type, creating a smart database of the words that you use most, and also of their usual environment. When you start typing the same words again, Atlantis gives a warning sound, pops a small window up, and displays a list of words beginning with the same characters. But this is not all. The Atlantis Power Type has learning abilities. As time goes by, the Power Type database gets smarter, and you will notice that the typing suggestions are more and more appropriate. Of course, the Atlantis Power Type is invaluable for people with disabilities. But also for slow "one-finger" typists.
   • The Overused Words feature will help creative writers avoid repetitions and clichés if they want their texts to be read with any interest or pleasure. The Overused Words feature will show detailed statistics about repetitions and word frequency. This will tell you where words need to be replaced with synonyms, or whole paragraphs reworked.
   • To improve the reading and understanding of the documents you create in Atlantis, you can add bookmarks, hyperlinks, table of contents to them. Atlantis can build table of contents automatically at the press of a few keys.
   • All documents created in Atlantis can be "Saved As Web Page", i.e. saved as HTML. This will help owners of personal Web sites, and also e-book creators tremendously. Atlantis also has a command to convert any document to an eBook with just a few mouse clicks.
   • You will find comprehensive support for all types of lists, bulleted and numbered, whether simple (one level) or outline (multilevel). Where numbered lists are concerned, we have placed the highest emphasis on reliability. You will design foolproof numbering schemes from simplest to most complex with the greatest of ease. And, uniquely, you will be able to fix the wrong numbering of lists created in other not so smart word processors.
   • Headers and footers are fully supported. And so are footnotes and endnotes. You can insert footnotes and/or endnotes, choosing from a wide range of different reference marks. What's more, and quite uncommonly, you can configure footnotes and endnotes differently from one document section to the other.
   • Use tables in your documents to present text information and numerical data.

   Documents are safe with Atlantis:

   • Against system lock-ups or crashes, Atlantis can automatically safeguard all open documents at regular intervals.
   • Atlantis can also create automatic and regular backups of all open documents. Successive versions of each document are saved to a special folder. In this way, you can always go back to earlier versions of your working documents.
   • You can create documents in a proprietary encrypted COD file format. Atlantis uses a very powerful 256-bit encryption algorithm. With Atlantis, your private documents are as safe as Fort Knox!

   Document support is comprehensive:

   • Document size is literally unlimited.
   • Multiple document formats are supported, insuring maximum portability on all systems: RTF, MS Word DOC 6.0/95/97/2000/XP/2003, DOCX, ODT, etc.
   • Batch conversion.
   • Support for document projects.
   • Multiple graphic formats can be used to complement text:
     BMP, EMF, WMF, JPG, GIF, PNG, PCX, TGA, TIF, PCD, etc.
   • You have an option to save documents in a supercompact lightweight RTF format. Combined with the Atlantis internal Zip compression, this option is ideal for files traveling on the Internet.

    

   The interface is fully customizable:

   • Atlantis can be customized to suit your own needs and preferences: the menus, hot keys, and toolbars are fully customizable on a per-user basis. Each particular toolbar can be toggled on and off at will.
   • You can choose from a variety of proprietary Color Schemes to personalize the Atlantis GUI. You can even create your own Atlantis Color Schemes.
   • Original background Sound Schemes can be used, modified, or created anew.
   • You can have favorite fonts: Atlantis will automatically place them at the top of the font list. You can even choose to have a menu with your favorite fonts only.
   • Just as any other software, Atlantis will normally ask confirmation before going ahead and carry out important actions like saving files or deleting items. If you always click the same button (Yes, No, Ignore, etc) in such dialogs, you can save a custom default answer for each of them individually and de-activate the corresponding message dialog. Of course each of these confirmation messages can be re-activated on demand.
   • If you are a power user, you will take advantage of a whole array of command-line parameters to launch Atlantis with specific options.

   Handling documents is easy:

   • Atlantis has a Multiple Document Interface (MDI). You can open as many documents as you want.
   • Navigation among open documents is quick and easy, using a Document Bar with name-tabs. With drag & drop, the name-tabs can even be reordered in any suitable way. And, just like the Windows Taskbar, the Atlantis Document Bar can be resized to accommodate multi-tier rows of document name-tabs.
   • A dual set of commands is available for each of the 4 toolbars: at the flick of a switch, you will alternate between the Atlantis Main and Alternative sets of toolbar commands.
   • Both a horizontal and a vertical ruler can be displayed with full state-of-the-art controls.
   • The wheel mouse advanced functions are fully supported.
   • You can use the Easy Hand "grabbing" mode of the cursor to navigate effortlessly up and down documents.
   • Using the Fast navigation tool of Atlantis, you can mark important locations of the currently open documents, then switch among those locations with a simple keyboard shortcut.
   • Scrolling up and down documents is done "live" and with great precision.
   • Most commands are available at the click of a button or at the press of a hot key.
   • A favorite working folder can be assigned to Atlantis.
   • Often used documents can be registered as "favorites" for quick and easy access.
   • You can specify which supported file types will automatically open in Atlantis following a double-click in Windows Explorer.
   • Atlantis has internal commands to compress and save as Zip the active document, or all open documents.
   • You can attach documents to a message directly from Atlantis, using the Send by Email command. You can send documents "AS IS", or as compressed ZIP files. The file zipping is done by Atlantis.
   • The printing options are those of a top-class word processor: printing range, reverse order, odd/even pages, number of copies, collate, scaling to paper size, two-sided printing on duplex and non-duplex printers, printing simple and compound booklets, economy mode with 1 to 16 pages per sheet. And two special Atlantis command-line switches to send documents directly to the printer without displaying any dialog.
   • Using the Atlantis Address Books, envelopes can be created for single or multiple addressees, attached to documents, and printed for private or bulk mail use.

   Document viewing is very comfortable:

   • Print Layout and Draft view modes.
   • The Atlantis display is unflickering, and 100% WYSIWYG.
   • A "Full Screen" mode is available to maximize the working space.
   • You can choose from a whole array of zooming factors (including "Page width" and "Text width") to fine-tune the document onscreen display.
   • A "Magnifying Glass" tool is on hand for instant high/low magnification of a fragment of text.
   • The "Preview" mode gives you perfect control over the printed output.
   • The Spotlight mode creates a distraction-free environment by dimming out everything except the fragment of document you are working on.
   • Work on two parts of a document at the same time with the Split feature.

   Document editing is most convenient:

   • Fragments of text are easily selected with keyboard or mouse.
   • Selections can be done in the traditional way by full lines or paragraphs. But you can also select multiple fragments of non-contiguous text. Or whole "column blocks", if suitable.
   • You can activate an option so that whole words are automatically selected by the mouse pointer.
   • Drag & Drop editing is fully supported: you can move or duplicate text to another location with a simple glide of the mouse pointer.
   • You can duplicate a selection, change its case pattern, or move it up or down with the cursor keys.
   • When you select text with the mouse or keyboard, Atlantis can automatically highlight other instances of the selected text in the document window.
   • Using a "Paste As Environment" special option, the clipboard contents can be pasted so that they blend in with the formatting found at the insertion point.
   • You can insert files, pictures with various text wrapping styles, special symbols, the current date or time, addresses, etc. Addresses can be imported from CSV files, e.g. from MS Outlook Express.
   • The color count of inserted pictures can be reduced to minimize the document size.
   • Atlantis has a smart Cut & Paste feature with automatic management of blank spaces.
   • There is unlimited undo/redo, Group Undo, Undo After Save.
   • The "Find/Replace" dialog has a very useful "Find And Select All" option. When you have found and selected non-contiguous fragments of document in such a way, you can format them all at one go in any suitable way, or you can copy or move them.
   • Regular expressions can be used to find text that matches a given pattern and optionally replace those matches with new text.
   • Paragraphs can be sorted in ascending or descending order.
   • Page numbering is fully supported.
   • You can easily get detailed statistics on a selection of text or on the whole document.
   • You can send selections of text directly to the printer.
   • You can save selected portions of document as RTF, DOC, DOCX, or COD files; pictures as graphic files.
   • You can store multiple clipboard items for later retrieval in a most practical Clippy Bank.
   • Items that you send to the Windows clipboard are stored by Atlantis, and are made available from a pull-down clipboard menu on the Atlantis toolbars.
   • Writing time & speed can be displayed on the status bar, and a writing target can be set for any document.
   • A "Calculate" function adds computational capability to traditional word processing.

 

 

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[Guest]

Ok so u have 2 (3) great options: awesome app now abandoned (markup), typoria (soon pay ware, after beta) stuff like toast (nuget/chocolaty not good for novices or me supporting) or a no msi zip for win on the best true free (marktext)  

You need to support ppl that know md and ppl that can barley use anything not M$, on windows, needing a "stand human" level "exe install" ....options DRY UP

SO...You need to make an installer for that git project with "advanced users type no msi/exe install" (for use by novices)? 

PAQUET BUILDER

Its not a common issue in my life.....: Eat sweet LMZA2 solid block compression MarkText Win x64 v0.16.2 (worked on Caesrum 2.0 "no msi/exe" zip beta too)

• I can even prompt user with their EULA and software licencing ... typoria who/what..soon payware
• I'm totally buying this full licence  for $99
• NSIS might be ok, but its "basic" this is "FEATURE RICH"

• DCP Setup Maker is FOSS/100% FREE, has multi OS support (READ LINUX, Mac OS & Windows)... I might need to rethink Paquet builder?

Edited October 9, 2020 by Guest

[Guest]

Testing of Cleanmem (HUGE AT 4mb) vs other apps:

MemPlus - slightly less efficent, but its FOSS

Mem Reduct - BOOM, and its tiny! 357kb!! Plus over 170% the ram cleared to Clearmem on my "2gb ram tiny box" min spec tester pc (and keep clear, bot ram > page/cache > ram)

MEMORY BOOSTER - right size for a manager (1mb) POWERFUL FEATURES, but no updates in over 3 years...that reeks of "I got disinterested in my project app".. shame it it was kept up it might have won

Ok today we saved over 700mb on pack and have "bettered" the tools we use, and got more towards our PURE FOSS goal, I hope to finish by Sunday. auto installer and dds/img tools need a 2nd look

• Jarte is replaced by Atlantis Lite Office 
• I contacted kurtzimmermann, about ImageFinder (finds similar images by data, not file name, 100% FOSS), RegCool (replaces O&O Regedit, 100% FOSS & WAY BETTER) , TweakPower (Replaces any other "booster/tweaker" 100% FOSS) & HDCleaner (Replaces Glary Utilities and its seeming better in tests)
• Classicshell is no longer supported > OpenShell replaces it and is better, supported and 100% FOSS, SSuite Mac Dock for PC is "acceptable" lol SSUITE ROCKS look at this site!
• LibreOffice & OpenOffice are too heavy, Replaced by Spread32 (its 3.75mb unziped/installed excel: xlsx, xls, pxl, csv and txt files), Atlantis lite (3mb install file txt/rtf/doc/docx/odf), SumatraPDF (5mb pdf/ebub etc), Impressive (24mb Powerpoint/slides)
• Cleanmem has been replaced with Mem Reduct
• Kaspersky is abit heavy (on my tester system) replaced with: Avast with Nitro is 93% as "good" and only like 50% the resources (plus Avast is on the auto installer)...so SWITCH!
• Super Anti spyware is an "on demand scanner"...and spybot/avast/etc sees everything it does, so its wasting ram/cpu and drive space.. GONE
• Typoria isnt reallt open source forever, Marktext is good!. JOPLIN is replace by turtle...its small, its "light", FOSS and covers like 5 others apps duties (briefcase, bookmark, notes, ..so its a saving to add marktext/turtl
• Redo Rescue/Rescuezilla are big live discs, not exactly good for our uses. We want "open file copy/VSC" and the "only" decent truly free app with that is "Personal backup".. and the author is HIGHLY interactive and an excellent coder, app is good and light!
• KDENlive can do audio...do we need Ocean Audio or Audacity like toold???? sound isnt really modded....is it? And only presenters should need advanced audio editing outside modding.

So thats good for today...lots of testing all day

TEXTURES!

Who reads cyrilic? I have a msl head (looks metal) about 17 normals, mixed red and gold all in "russian"??

I located what look like "the sky with clouds" 6 images so its a "cube map"?

Should I get planet/moon maps?

Edited October 10, 2020 by Guest

[Guest]

oh yea, oddly packaging is easy. we can even make humanstuff minus tools, an exe install!

Heckk even tools could be done like this, but it would need to be "silent" or VERY long, so no auto tools, but I can auto generate the "unpacking" of the mod, with user prompt pauses.

IS ANYONE USING AMD COMPRESSINATOR GUI? Its just odd, I'm removing in 24 hours unless users request we keep trying it for tutorials and videos

I can not get it to do anything correctly

I will be dropping dds converter 1.4 from pack, the other dds converter 2.1 version in testing seems to make equal images but its FASTER

for CLI tools I feel we are getting best results on either end of size vs quality, from Texconv and Crunch,..... nvidia ones are OLD. 

so we should keep nvidia gui, dds converter 2.1 gui, texconv cli/gui and crunch cli (evens to "4 tools" 1 with both gui and cli). Paint.net can fill in any found gaps temporally (its infact fairly good at dds encoding for an image editor, better than some "dds tools")

xNormal & njob seems a yes, Awesome bump too. Quixel I dont know much about.

NeoTextureEdit or  Material maker seem the best in class FOSS for what they do. Pixaflux/texture lab are interesting looking...but we are slimming down

B for Artists RIPS BLENDER UP! I tested it today (cluelessly) 

convert etc image tools...ceasium is good but doesnt do the "good formats", ROIT is neat, but nothing has XnConverts power (all others but g'mic, ceasium 2.0, RIOT, and Xnconvert needs to go, maybe ceasium if they dont add webp ora or exr.....).

Greenstone is lighter than shareX and its ok, FreeShooter is WILDLY light, at 295kb! but has least goodies

Edited October 10, 2020 by Guest

[Guest]

HI ppl! .....I am so pleased!

I got a bunch of emails about this. Version 2.0.1 "Vector" is uploading now

I think I have got 2 about my other "HumanSTuff Texture pack", about minors issues in earlier builds.

This one...I got maybe 15, asking about how to install this or install order clarification.

So good news, we can learn textures not weird install orders, of open source "cryptic tools". NOW YOU WILL BE FULLY GUIDED, you need ONE WORKING FINGER TO COMPLETE THIS INSTALL

I'D LIKE SOME FEEDBACK...so 1st posted feed back  = Full reveal of change log

Edited October 11, 2020 by Guest