Hi jPV and thank you for your top quality software.
I have one question about the RNOEffects.
I have a lots of PNG files with APLHA images, (images are sequences of some effects like fire, smoke and fire with 90 or more frames).
It is possibile to convert batch of images with RNOEffects and save only ALPHA images from PNG files?
I was doing this with FXPaint and it is frustrating to load, invert and save lots of images one by one.
Thank you and best regards

Mm... do you mean that you want to save a blank image with the alpha channel from the original image? Or the alpha channel as a luminance based image or something like that?

Could you send me examples of the original image and resulting image of your FXPaint conversion, so that I would understand better what do you want to achieve?

This is original png file.
https://ibb.co/wNcfdrc

...and this is what I save from FXPaint after.
https://ibb.co/qDrzj3K

I use this images in Lightwave, one for original texture and second bw for alpha transparency.
I was try only smoke effect (90 images converted in fx paint) and its looks great rendered in LW, but its was very time consuming to save 90 images one by one.
Hope this help and thank you

I created a new effect in RNOEffects for this. There's now the "Opacity map" effect, which can be used to create an opacity map image (a grayscale image describing the transparency level) from the alpha channel of the loaded image. You can also apply such a map back to an image to add transparency.

So, to batch convert loads of files, open the Opacity map effect window, leave it in the "Create image" mode, and add files in the Batch convert window and start the conversion process.

Here's a "test" executable, which can be copied over the previous installation: RNOEffects exe


[ Edited by jPV 03.11.2021 - 19:18 ]

Thank you soooo much for this!!!! It is working perfect and its really fast!! :) :)
You are awesome coder and I just send some donation, just to thank you.
Best regards, Tomislav Novosel

Good to hear it works as you wished :) And thanks for the donation!

RNOPDF 1.5:

- Added the JPEG support for exporting
- Exporting can be aborted with the Esc key
- More options when exporting via ARexx
- Added "Search next" and "Search previous" options
- More complete localization support
- Added an Italian catalog (thanks Luca!)
- Older versions of reqtools.library work too (v38)
- Added window resizing options in the Control menu

- Added a french catalog

Thanks a lot jPV for this new version!

RNOArchive 1.1:
- Fixed an issue with directory extraction, which could lead to extraction of unselected files
- The progress bar is updated when unarchiving single dirs or full archives
- Added a work-around for adding whole directories without selecting anything
- Fixed an ARexx port issue
- Other minor fixes

RNOPDF 1.6:
- Fixed the search requester behaviour
- Fixed a window positioning issue on OS3 versions
- Better OpenURL implementation
- Added a French catalog (thanks Yannick!)
- Added a German catalog (thanks Stefan!)
- Made the source code a bit more readable

Added RNOTunes and updated RNOInfoScreen:

RNOInfoScreen 1.8:
- Added the embedded image support for FLAC files
- Added support for RNOTunes
- FLAC metadata is read from a file if a player doesn't support it
- Fixed the album art downloading (requires AmiSSL now)
- External Last.fm support is replaced by a built-in solution
- Added work-arounds to get the program to work on AROS too

More great utilities from our Hooded & Hi-disguised Hollywood Hero - many thanks for all your utilities so far - donation has already been sent (& received).

RNOTunes works really well, and RNOInfoScreen is yet another improvement over the last version

An update to RNORadio has been released.

Version 1.4:
- Fixed transparency issues that were introduced in the previous version
- Fixed compositing support detection (for hardware accelerated transparency)
- Added an option to force the hardware compositing On/Off manually
- Improved background rendering on GUI elements
- Removed wget dependency
- Minor tweaking

And a new video presentation of the program:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=072idj0G_v0

Thanks jPV for this new release!

I hope do excellent software as yours soon (next year)

Quote:
Yeah, keep learning and practising, it really gets fun when you get into it and find new ways to do things :)

RNOXfer updated.

Version 1.4:
- Added editing fields in the server list window
- Added the comment column on the server list
- Added the default local path setting
- Added the private keyfile setting for SFTP connections
- Added a check for server list changes at exit
- Added UTF-8 support to be RFC 2640 compliant
- Massive speedup in directory handling
- More verbose file size comparison when a file exists
- Added an option to save selected files/dirs as a text file
- Fixed advanced.conf handling
- Fixed issues with the settings file format
- Adjusted window sleep modes
- Disconnects from the previous server when double-clicking a new server from the server list
- Uses hURL 2.0 (requires MorphOS 3.16)

RNOWidgets updted.

Version 1.5:
- Fixed compositing support detection (for hardware accelerated transparency)
- Uses openssl3.library instead of AmiSSL for HTTPS URLs
- Linked required plugins in the executable (works better in WBStartup, etc..)
- Updated RSS presets
- Other small changes

Here's a new video of the program too.

BTW. there's an interview about my Hollywood developments in the September 2023 issue of the WhatIFF? magazine if someone is interested about some background stories.

The magazine in the AmigaGuide format is freely available at Aminet.

RNOWidgets 1.6 released:

- Added a fullscreen 5-day forecast display for the Weather widget
- Added a 12-hour option to the Digital Clock widget
- Added support for Atom feeds and renamed the RSS widget as the Feeds widget
- Added fullscreen mode for the Feeds widget
- Added placeholders for date/env content in the Pictures widget's paths/URLs
- Fixed a Pictures widget fullscreen crash issue that was introduced in v1.5
- Fixed a memory leak in the Pictures widget
- Rewrote the weather API code
- Other small changes

Thanks a lot jPV for this new update!