!KISSTools doll creation utility

!KISSTools is a set of file conversion utilities to enable RISC OS users to create and edit their own dolls.

For !KISSTools to be useful, you will need the KiSS General Specification (KiSS/GS), which is available from The Big KiSS Page. If you dig around, the same site contains Dov Sherman's guide to creating KiSS dolls.

!KISSTools provides the following:

• CEL to Sprite conversion
• Sprite to CEL conversion
• KCF to Palette conversion
• Palette to KCF conversion
• Automated CEL or Sprite repaletting
• Palette shrinking (i.e. reduce the number of colours used by a cel)

and all functions can be used either from the command line or the Wimp.

Click here to download !KISSTools V1.00 (73K, Sept 2003).

This version includes limited support for Cherry KiSS.

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!MakeKISS

!MakeKISS is a sophisticated KiSS doll editing package, with the ability to create and manipulate dolls in all sorts of ways. As of V3.00, !MakeKISS is 26-bit/32-bit neutral, which means it will run on all versions of RISC OS from 3.5 onwards.

!MakeKISS provides nearly all the player functionality of !PlayKISS and the file conversion functionality of !KISSTools, and provides the following features:

• Image editing
  • Size
  • Background colour
• Object editing
  • Position
  • Fix value
• Cel editing
  • Associated palette
  • Offset (for KISS/GS2 cels only)
  • Drawing order
  • Set mask
  • Transparency
• Miscellanous
  • Easy creation of new doll templates
  • Limited undo facility
  • Fully interactive editing (ie all changes are reflected in the image immediately)
  • FKISS debugger
  • Palette editor
  • Cel editor (via OLE)
• New features in V3
  • Full support for FKISS4, including cel groups, hints and new cel attributes;
  • Iyonix compatible.
• Limitations
  • French KISS
    This version of MakeKISS does not provide any support for the creation of FKISS scripts. The debugger, however, is a powerful tool to help you track down problems in existing scripts.
    
  • Cherry KISS
    !MakeKISS has not been extensively tested with Cherry KISS true colour sets, so if you try it you're on your own (although I will try to fix any reported bugs).

Although !MakeKISS is a powerful utility, it is neither quite as neat a pure KISS viewer as !PlayKISS, nor quite as flexible for file conversion as !KISSTools; if you are serious about your KISS, you will need all three (I would do a special offer to everyone who bought all three, but as they're all free anyway there's not a lot I can do).

Download !MakeKISS V3.05 (228K, August 2007).

Unfortunately, downloading !MakeKISS probably won't be enough - you'll also need the user guide. This is written in HTML, because I felt the best way to explain the various dialog boxes was to give you pictures of them.

Download !MakeKISS User Guide (371K).

Updated for MakeKISS V3.00.

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lharc archive/dearchive utility

Unfortunately, although SparkFS will read .LZH files, it won't write them. To fill this gap, I've produced an up-to-date port of the Unix "lharc" utility. This is not the first port of this program by any means, but all the earlier ports had problems.

Of course, if you haven't got SparkFS, you can use lharc to decompress KiSS dolls into an X-File, raFS volume or (if using an E+ formatted disc), a standard RISCOS directory.

Click here to download lharc V0.31 (50K).

As lharc is a command-line utility, I've also produced DtLHARC, which is a desktop front end, and altogether easier to use.

Click here to download DtLHARC V0.15 (65K).

NB DtLHARC requires that lharc (V0.28 or later) is available in your library folder.

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