LaMulanaSpriteSwapper

Customize, mix, and match sprite sheets without wangjangling the contents of your data/graphics/00 folder

How to do the thing

• The app will try to auto-populate the game directory for you (Feel free to suggest more defaults)
  • If La-Mulana install directory is empty, enter the path to your game directory, eg: C:\Steam\steamapps\common\La-Mulana
• Select a Sprite from the Sprite list box
  • Any appropriate variants will populate the Variant list box
• Select a Variant (from the second-from-the-left list box)
  • You should see an arbirtary image from the set of those that get replaced (This preview area will eventually be used for thumbnails) (Currently no preview exists anymore)
• Check or uncheck Fresh start if you want to modify already-modified files
  • This will only revert to default before modification for files that are edited by this particular variant (It's complicated)
• Check or uncheck Shuffle colors if you want to randomize how things look a little
  • If you check Chaos shuffle as well, then if the variant has changes across multiple files, it will not attempt to keep them consistent. This causes things to look really silly
• Click Add to queue (Or just double-click the desired Variant) to add it to the list of modifications
  • If you accidentally added something with the wrong settings checked off, you can modify them after they've been added to the queue, using the matching icon checkboxes on the right
• Click Apply to write the changes to your game directory
  • This might take a few seconds if there are many files being touched

The code is ugly, and will be for a while.

FAQ

Why is Fresh Start complicated?

1. Let's say you set Lemeza to Invisible and apply; this modifies like 7 files, and in most cases, only certain parts of those files (Masks will be documented eventually)
2. Now let's say you apply the Moogle variant, which at the moment is only touching 00prof.png

• If Fresh start is enabled, then 00prof.png will be reverted and then converted to the Moogle sprite
• If Fresh start is disabled, then any unmasked area in the variant will be preserved
  • Moogle doesn't edit shields, but Invisible does. So if you use Fresh start, the shields will be reverted to the default value. If not, shields will still be invisible

Why would I want this?

• If you first apply Invisible to Lemeza, then Sunglasses ...
• Fresh start = Enabled -> Put sunglasses on Lemeza
• Fresh start = Disabled -> Put sunglasses floating in the air

Okay but why didn't you start with that instead of the more-complicated Moogle example?

I am not good at this.

Custom sprite creators

• Virus610
  • Lemeza/Moogle
  • Lemeza/Invisible
  • Lemeza/Sunglasses-overlay
  • Tiamat/Tee-amat
  • Tiamat/Invisible
  • Tiamat/rainbow
• Nano
  • Lemeza/Lumisa-Bluemisa
  • Lemeza/Lumisa-KimonoCowgirl

Known Issues

AKA a lazy TODO list/issue tracker

• App still kinda looks like garbage Honestly, I kinda like how it looks, these days
• Code COULD be less garbagey
• Needs more sprites/variants
• Stuff doesn't necessarily look good on all Operating Systems, yet