Chili GBA

Chili
General
Author	Aleksi Eeben
Type	Development Tools
Version	1.4
License	Mixed
Last Updated	2001/10/14
Links
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Chili is a Game Boy Advance tile editor.

User guide

Basic editing:

• LMB/RMB to draw using color L/R or to select colors from Color box.
• Shift+LMB/RMB to pick color from Zoom box.
• Ctrl+LMB/RMB to draw, fill or color replace using transparent color.
• Alt+LMB/RMB to draw from copy buffer.
• In Shade mode LMB/RMB gradually fades pixel values towards the desired color. Colors L and R define the color range.

Drawing tools:

• Alt+1 - Draw Continuous
• Alt+2 - Draw Dots
• Alt+3 - Shade
• Alt+4 - Filled Box
• Alt+5 - Color Replace
• Alt+6 - Flood Fill

Color Box:

• Double-click on any color to open a standard Windows color picker.
• F3/F4 - Previous/Next Color L
• F5/F6 - Previous/Next Color R
• F2 - Switch Color R to transparent
• Ctrl+1...4 - Switches between recently used L/R color pairs (or color ranges).
• Ctrl+A - (Arrange) swaps two colors in the palette and remaps the current tile.
• Ctrl+D - (Spread) generates a color slide between colors L and R.
• Ctrl+Alt+A - (Adjust) opens a Brightness/Contrast/Saturation dialog.

Export:

• Tile Data is exported in raw binary format. Only the tiles numbered 0 through the current Last Tile setting are exported.
• When using Two-Dimensional VRAM Mapping the end of data is aligned. (A few extra tiles may be included to fill up the last VRAM row).

Bitmap import:

• Images bigger than the current tile size are split into multiple tiles starting from the current Tile Index.
• The slicing is done from left to right, top to bottom.
• The color attribute at top-left corner is assigned to transparent.
• No color reduction is implemented.

Game Boy Advance:

• GBA has 96K of VRAM which is shared by BG character/bitmap data, screen maps and OBJ character data. BG and OBJ both have an own 256 color palette.
• Chili allocates a 32K VRAM block and one 256 color palette per file. Thus, for most practical use you should use a separate file for BG and OBJ tiles.

Screenshots

External links

• Author's website - http://www.aleksieeben.blogspot.com/ (archived)