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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2025 9:50 pm Post subject:
Open Source SHP Builder 3.38 Beta 28 is out! A late welcome to the 64 bits era!
Subject description: Zoom to the moon with huge squares!
Howdy everyone! Our beloved April 1st has started in China, Japan, Russia, Australia, and it begins with a big surprise: a new version of Open Source SHP Builder called Open Source SHP Builder 3.38 Beta 28. For those unfamiliar with it, Open Source SHP Builder is a pixel art editor dedicated to old Command & Conquer games, such as Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert 1, Tiberian Sun, Red Alert 2, and the modern OpenRA. It is free, and open-source. It allows you to edit any .SHP animations and graphics used by these games. It provides a friendly user interface and its own set of features to help you create cameos, quickly, replace colors (changing faction from units, for instance), create snow or crashed versions of buildings, import and export several kind of graphics taking into account singularities from all covered games, among many other features. The changes from Open Source SHP Builder 3.38 Beta 28 were announced with the following words at the SVN:
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OS SHP Builder has finally reached the 64-bit era! We have revisited its code to support newer Delphi IDEs and 64 bits. With 64 bits, OS SHP Builder will be able to use more than 3GB of RAM, which allows you to use bigger zoom levels, load more images at once, among other things. The IDE change has also forced us to use different libraries for PNG and GIF support.
Do you believe in that? The last version of OS SHP Builder that brought a new feature was released over 1356 days ago... which is close to 4 years ago. So, it has been a while, isn't it? Now, the support for this beloved program resumes, and we will be fixing bugs as soon as our community reports it, preferentially in our forums.
The 64-bit conversion was not trivial. I had to edit a bunch of files and dive into several .asm codes to adapt them to 64 bits or convert them into comprehensive code. Assembly is not something that I handle well. It took time, but it was worth it, and hopefully, we will see more interesting features appearing in OS SHP Builder from now on!
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Open Source SHP Builder 3.38 Beta 28 is out! A late welcome to the 64 bits era!
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