Free Image Converter from GSHelper.com

tenrdrmer

Hey Everyone,

Brand new tool from GSHelper.com! GameSalad now supports TGA files which reduce load times for your games. But what if you have already done all your art in .PNG format? This handy converter takes care of the hassle for you!

And best of all, it’s free.

Courtesy of GSHelper.com!

- See more at: http://gshelper.com/shop/tools-2/gshelper-image-converter/

Edit: tga's only work in the nightly builds at the moment. they are hopefully coming soon to the public releases. Right @codewizard ?

CodeMonster

reduce load times? free? how can this get any better thanks @tenrdrmer for this post

ikhoata

Thanks @tenrdrmer.
I tried all the ways to reduce load time (no preload art, less actor at welcome screen...) but it seems no change, still needs 6 seconds to load a 40 MB retina iPad app.
Will try this tool.

tenrdrmer

@ikhoata I don't recommend just flat converting everything. tga's are uncompressed images which means your file size will increase. so start out trying to apply the conversion to just the larger images in your game. its the process of uncorpressing the large ones that slows things down.

Cheers
Aaron

ikhoata

Thanks @tenrdrmer.
This gonna help many devs.

hzapps

Thank you. Your Rock!

gotyours

Cant get it to work on my mac

tenrdrmer

@gotyours can you send us a support ticket so we can try to forge out what's going on?

CodeMonster

yeh this doesnt work on windows

tenrdrmer

Hey Everyone,

Just wanted to let you guys know we now have a Windows version on their too. Its of course free as well.

Enjoy!

Aaron

http://gshelper.com/shop/tools-2/gshelper-image-converter/

fadamion

So this is just recommended for larger images? About what size would that be? thanks for this I've tried it and it works great. I did find out that if you try to open a folder in the "select source file" opener it will crash.

Abigail111

Hi there
Thanks for your sharing.It's really helpful for me.My previous image converter is powerful.But it costs me some money.So i've expected a free image converter for a
long time.I'd like to have a try.Thanks

pinkio75

I've download it but it crashes when i launch it...

tenrdrmer

@pinkio and/or everyone else. If you have a problem with this please contact us at gshelper. This thread is just to announce the tool. GS forums are not here to trouble shoot issues with our products.

Cheers
Aaron