The login and character selection screens will now write to the texture files used by Issue 21 onwards.

"Splash Randomizer" will now attempt to launch paragonchat.exe instead of cohupdater.

Alpha textures will be compressed using -bc3 if nvcompress is used.

Removed separate handling of City of Villains login/character selection screen.

Removed French, German and English UK client selection.

Removed the "Check for updates" feature.

Texture compression: each texture now uses much less space in the harddisk (80% less for loading screens) and generates mipmaps, resulting in much higher quality textures for in-game textures. This can be disabled from the Options tab if you run into any problems with the NVIDIA compression tool.

Added textures: Supercomputer, Mega Monitor, Arachnos poster, Sewer SG Base tileset.

You can now add all the images in a folder to the Randomizer screens at once.

Added emote textures: /em newspaper and /em protest.

Fixed a bug that caused Splasher to write empty login and character selection screens under Windows Vista and Windows XP 64-bit.

Added over 90 textures to the Textures tab and Online Randomizer, including supercomputer, Eye Window, and every texture used in the Arcane supergroup base style.

Online Textures tab: you can now configure Splasher to download up to five images from the web and apply them to any texture you pick. This allows a Supergroup to have dynamically changing billboards on the city and inside the Supergroup base.

Support for PNG images! You can now load them and use them as Image Frames.

Added Movie Posters and Supergroup Base paintings to the Textures tab.

Updated the default Image Frames to reflect NCsoft's full ownership of City of Heroes.

Fixed crash that happened when setting a new login or character selection screen. Some code for the Textures tab was causing trouble.

Added the Grandville animated screens to the Textures tab.

Textures tab. With this new option, you can replace the images of nearly a hundred in-game textures, including Billboards, Graffitis, Whiteboards, and much much more all over the city and inside Supergroup bases!

Option to check for updates once daily. Can be disabled from the Settings tab, or at install time.

Creates a shortcut to launch COV with the Randomizer. This was always possible but most people didn't realize.

New tabbed interface, replacing the multi-window mess.

Huge speed improvement when processing images.

Automatically resizes and increases the color depth of input images.

New preview panel so you can see how the image will look in the game.

Clicking on the preview panel allows you to adjust the brightness levels.

Remade the sound transcoder from scratch for Windows Vista compatibility. It can now read more file formats.

Windows Vista users may need to add Splasher to the list of exceptions in Data Execution Prevention (DEP).

Sound transcoder. You can now set the background music for hero and villain login screens, as well as the background music in Pocket D, and any of the BoomBox tunes.

European login screen for Villains fixed again. It will write the bottom part of the image to uk_text.texture, both when setting it from Splasher, and when using the Randomizer.

Randomizer screens now saved as DDS files to avoid a crash that would happen if you created Randomizer screens and then switched the City of Heroes client language. As a side effect, you can move the .dds files between Randomizer folders.

Fixed a bug that could cause Splasher to convert an image even if it wasn't the right size, causing all the pixels to get juggled up.

Will now check permissions and display an error message if it can't write to the City of Heroes folder.

A few tweaks to the interface: you can move the window while it's converting, it will display the proper file name instead of converted.bmp, etc.

You can now remove all customized screens from the Settings window, restoring the default ones.

Replaced calls to comctl32.ocx with custom controls to save space.

European Image Frames with PEGI ratings instead of ESRB ratings.

Fix for the TGA converter. It was ignoring the vertical flip bit.

Fix for European clients. Will now autodetect the game folder and won't launch the US updater if it exists.

Support for translations. Almost all text in the program is now read from the registry, except some error messages. If you want to translate Splasher to another language, email me.

French translation by Swissy™ from the European forums. Thanks, Swissy™!

European login screen for Villains fixed. Cryptic's bug, not mine: all European languages use the German login screen.

European updater is now detected with the proper file name.

Splash Randomizer! You can now save different images for the Login and Character Selection screens, and get random ones each time you start the game!

Will now remember the last path to CoH/CoV you used. The Randomizer will start the game from this location.

Quick 'n' Dirty, Getting-Shego-out-of-my-hair TGA converter!

Support for the European client. Click the 'Settings' button, then pick English (UK), French or German.

Support for JPEG and GIF files. It'll convert them to BMP and use the converted file, then delete the converted file when you quit the program.

You can now change Character Selection screens!

Uses a new system to add frames to the images. Create a 1024x768 bitmap with anything you want to be added on top of your images, using (255,0,255) as the transparent color.

Automatically detects your City of Heroes folder. You can still change it if you want, but note the next point.

Automatically creates all the required directories to save the textures in. You just point it to the City of Heroes folder, and it creates the entire data structure.

Remembers the last directory you loaded images from.

Progress bar while you're converting the images.

Initial release.

Converts 1024x768 TrueColor BMP files into DDS textures.

Can overlay two 1024x80 BMP files on top of the input image, one at top, one at the bottom.