Images decoding

[CoffeeStraw]

Be able to convert small images (like 150x150) to pixels could be used to reduce a lot of effort in manually producing shapes, boosting productivity. There are a lot of libraries in Python that could help in this task, like Pillow.

[Youka]

Additionally a reduction of output shapes by vectorization of (raster) images would be appreciated. If images aren't for particle effects, every bit of less subtitle code has a lot worth for generation time and render performance - especially because most are simple drawings for main audience "anime".

[Doko-Demo-Doa]

Back then there are two base scripts that we used to make KFX. One is ssa_pwaa_xd.pyc by Tenka Muteki:

ssa_pawaa_xd.zip

and another one is PyFX by 50119 which is MIA for a long time. It is actually based on ssa_pwaa_xd though.

PyFX.zip

This is an example script we created (use it with ssa_pwaa_xd): Clannad_OP.py

Hope they are useful for later references. Please note that they were legacy scripts and only work with Python 2.5.4 and below (with PIL installed).

[CoffeeStraw]

Thank you for your references. I've taken a look at them, but they're quite outdated and the code doesn't look that good...

Using PIL, this is quite an easy task to do in Python 3. I will surely like to have this implemented to let users do not use directly PIL, but we have other priorities right now (still, PRs are always well seen!).

[CoffeeStraw]

Additionally a reduction of output shapes by vectorization of (raster) images would be appreciated.

Probably, we could use the project pypotrace to import this feature. I still have to further investigate on it.