New release: NearInfinity v2.4-20240424

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Download: NearInfinity v2.4-20240424

Changelog:

• Greatly improved TIS conversion between palette-based and PVRZ-based variants:
  • Added options dialog for setting or tweaking various conversion options to TIS viewer (via Export... > as palette/pvrz-based TIS)
  • Added multithreading support to speed up PVRZ texture encoding
  • Provides option to convert (water) overlays between BG2 <-> BG2EE
  • Provides options to eliminate visual artifacts around borders of door tiles, animated tiles and overlay tiles in PVRZ-based tilesets
  • Added the same TIS conversion functionality to the Mass Exporter when option "Convert TIS to ..." is enabled
• Added a separate syntax highlighting option for trigger and action blocks in in the DLG tree viewer
• Added syntax highlighting for MENU resources
• Added context menu to NPC list panels in GAM resources for quick CRE structure access
• Added option to the File menu and context menu in the resource tree to explicitly open biffed versions of overridden resources if available
• Added quick jump feature to the table view of structured resources: Selecting a cell in the "Attribute" or "Offset" column allows you to quickly jump to the next matching entry when entering characters on the keyboard
• Added PSTEE-specific ARE animation flags
• New Effect structures are always preinitialized with Probability1=100
• Updated ARE rest spawn field for oIWD and oIWD2
• Area Viewer:
  • Added option "Show cell grid" for visualizing search map cells
  • Fixed PNG export of zoomed maps not considering the zoom level when option "Include layer items" was disabled
  • Fixed PNG export of zoomed maps not properly scaling actor and animation bitmaps when option "Include layer items" was enabled
• Improved MUS file parser (fixes BG1 demo music parsing)
• Improved loading times of PVRZ-based TIS resources
• Improved script decompiler: Reduced the probability of triggers with multiple definitions to choose the wrong one
• Improved list of available ARE container types by looking up entries in associated CONTAINR.2DA file in EE games
• Play button in resource lists should be hidden for resource types that don't support playback
• Clarified labels in the context menu for entries in structured resources
• Fixed crashes on Linux caused by "inotify watches limit reached" events
• Fixed some important controls being invisible in the "Open external file" dialog
• Fixed compiling issues with Java 21
• Fixed File Dialogs issues with certain Look&Feel themes (mostly FlatLaf themes)
• Fixed issues with compiling/decompile script actions AddexperiencePartyGlobal() and GivePartyGoldGlobal()
• Fixed NI freezing/crashing when trying to open malformed TOH/TOT files (may happen in IWD2 under certain circumstances)
• Fixed sorting results by 'Attribute/Line' of reference searches if they contained entries with incompatible values
• Fixed showing the wrong path in Open/Save dialogs of BMP/MOS/PVRZ/TIS converters under certain conditions
• Many more internal bugfixes and improvements