SDLIMAGE™: THE AWARD WINNING VIDEO GAME VISUAL QUALITY BOOSTER

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For years, Sdlimage™ have been working hard at improving award winning video games. Today, Sdlimage™ 9.2 continues on next generation platforms such as PlayStation 3™ & Xbox™360™, performing even better!

Introducing Sdlimage™ 9.2

If you are creating interactive realtime 3D games, Sdlimage™ 9.2 is something you must consider!

Destroy All humans © 2005 by Pandemic Studios/THQ on PlayStation2 and XBox

Visually enhance your game

Sdlimage™ 9.2 is the all-in-one, turn-key solution that provides dramatic quality improvement to real time 3D games. It processes textures and generates mipmaps by using latest image spectrographics analysis, bringing unmatched competitive advantage. By respecting artists' point of view, Sdlimage™ 9.2 emphases achieved results at realtime with no technical constraints — there is no code to be included in your runtime.

Nightmare Creatures 2 © 2000 by Kalisto/Universal/Konami on PlayStation and Dreamcast

Outstanding results

Sdlimage™ has been used for 11 years now, and several games benefited from its unique hi-performance processing algorithm collection.
Its superiority comes from our long experience in the video game industry as Sdlimage™ track record proves it. Whatever your game is — be it cartoon-like or realistic — Sdlimage™ respects your artist genuine artworks as demonstrated in Nightmare Creatures 2 with its unique impressive granitic look.

Winnie The Pooh © 2001 by Disney/NewKidCo on PSOne, Dreamcast and N64

Unique features

Among many features, we can outline some as follows:

Built-in Advanced Signal software Processor that removes texture artefacts generated at runtime and takes the most from your preferred console's Graphics Processor Unit hardware,

Filtered mipmaped texture generation

Reduces the number of colors to the required number whatever the original source is (reducing from true-color to 4-bit color in a snap),

Texture and normalmap preparation for better compression ratio

Hassle-free transparency handling,

All operations are performed offline. No code is required in your runtime thus Sdlimage™ does not grab any bit of power from your 3D engine.

Tigger's Party © 2003 by Disney/NewKidCo on PSOne, Dreamcast and N64

What's in the box?

With Sdlimage™ you get:
— the PC-based library for Windows (.Lib, .DLL, *.h) that nicely fits in your production toolchain.
— Getting Started, a 100-page Book as a PDF file
— a set of sample C++ source files to help you integrate Sdlimage™ 9.2 into your toolchain

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Sdlimage™ 9.2 features

The list of specs is subject to change without notification:

FEATURES	Sdlimage™ 9.2
API	Full C++ api
Maximum texture size	2048x2048 pixels (16 times improvement over v9.1)
Color reduction	Variance minimization: Better dynamic range now supports 7-bit, 1 dropped (13% improvement over v9.0) Include 5 different algorithms — Palette sharing among several images — Tiling support
Quantization matrix	Maximum 256×256 pixels per block
Scaling	Isotropic and anisotropic size enlargement and reduction — Rough or built-in convolution filter — Support for transparency and opacity mask
Transparency	Alpha blending, punch thru and opacity are supported in all functions
Image support	Raw format — Direct memory mapped
Image window	All functions
Filtering	Spacial — Spectral: DCT, Wavelets
Color count	Ultra-fast
Processing speed	Lightning fast
File format supports (both load/save)	RAW formats and BMP, GIF, TGA, TIFF, PNG and more
Pixel format support:	4-bit and 8-bit indexed, A1RGB 12-bit (Playstation One), R5G5B5 15-bit, R5G6B5 16-bit, and A1R5G5B5 16-bit, RGB 24-bit, ARGB 32-bit
Pixel format support for Normal maps and Vector fields:	RGB 24-bit, ARGB 32-bit and up to 3×32-bit floating point

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