I graduated from grad school a few weeks ago and am now chronically unemployed. As such, have been working on a new APE tool, inspired by other tools from before like APE, APExp, Zoot, and ZT Studio. It will combine the best of Zoot and old APE by letting you generate, edit, and import configuration, as well as let you edit the graphics within the app. You'll be able to add shadow animations, background frames, and eventually I want to have it let you create color swatches and automatically reduce color count for you when you import PNG frames. Ideally you wouldn't have to edit in GIMP at all. I'm calling it APE Studio. Here it is so far:
Current features:
- imports zoo tycoon projects and automatically sorts them by type in a tree structure as shown above
- lets the user edit their project config all within the GUI
- can automatically read in all available lang dll files in the zoo tycoon install folder and let you search IDs from inside of the app
Currently working on improving the lang file browser. I'm trying to get it so you can search IDs and strings from a searchbar and filter by dll file.