Breakthrough for Entertainment and Game Design Development
Image comparison and configuration management tool detects even small changes in art assets.
(PRWEB via PR Web Direct) June 28,
2005 -- As games have become more and more sophisticated over the years, so have
game design development tools. Game development teams that create rich graphics
for consoles like Nintendo DS and Sony Play Station 2 have to keep track of
image changes throughout the project. Until recently tracking these subtle
changes has been a time consuming procedure.
Now ionForge, a leading
provider of next-generation source control and configuration management tools,
has released their imageDiff software as a stand-alone product. Previously only
available as part of ionForge's Evolution, imageDiff is available as a free
download for a limited time at http://www.imagediff.com
"This visual image comparison
is going to dramatically improve the development cycle of game and entertainment
projects," noted Lucas Heneks, Lead Developer of Entertainment and Game Tools
for ionForge. "With imageDiff you can compare two images side by side and see a
difference mask that shows you the exact pixels that changed. We see this as a
major advancement in source control and configuration
management."
"imageDiff is a wonderful tool for teams that work on large
projects where more than one person is working on the same image," said Linda
Langenbacher, president of Artistic Solutions and Productions (ASaP) a creative
production company focused on product development. Artists in the ASaP creative
team have been responsible for high profile projects inside Disney, Warner
Brothers, Mattel and DreamWorks.
"It can be very difficult to track
changes in an image throughout the life of a project and see how it started out.
imageDiff will facilitate this process," said Langenbacher
imageDiff
gives users the ability to compare images of different formats with each other,
including JPG, GIF, BMP, TIF, PNG and track changes across different file
formats. By making this possible it will help ensure that gaming and
entertainment projects are completed accurately, as well as on time and on
budget.
While ionForge has made the download freely available to artists
and developers at this time, they are requesting that anyone who downloads the
software make a donation to the Jamaican Cancer Society (JCS) to honor one of
the original members of the ionForge development team, Francis Salmon. Salmon
and his father both passed in the last year from pancreatic cancer. Throughout
the later stages of their illness, and afterwards, the Jamaican Cancer Society
was very helpful and comforting to the Salmon family, as they are for many
families every year.
"We are hoping that by making imageDiff easily
available it will not only help game development and
entertainment projects with their image comparison and configuration management,
but also assist the JCS reach out to even more families," said Nick Ni, founder
of ionForge. The software tool can be downloaded at http://www.imagediff.com
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