New release: NearInfinity v2.4-20250225

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Download: NearInfinity v2.4-20250225

Changelog:

• Added new context menu options for text resources (2DA, IDS, INI):
  • Option to open selection or numeric value at current text cursor position as string references
  • Option to open selection or numeric value at current text cursor position as numeric IDS reference
  • Option to open selection or text at current text cursor position as game resource
• Added new Preferences option "Use last available IDS symbol for display" to mimic WeiDU's behavior when resolving IDS tables with multiple definitions
• Added new feature: SPLPROT Converter (found in Tools menu) to encode or decode splprot definitions
• Added portrait icons preview to the icon selection list (e.g. used by opcodes 142, 169 and 240)
• Added a help link to "Use regular expression" checkboxes in various search and check dialogs which opens a page that lists all supported regex features
• Added option to include symbolic spell names in the search for spell resources
• Added workaround to fix missing weapon overlays on some type 7000 creature animations
• Reorganized Preferences categories: created new subcategory "Resources"
• BAM Converter: fixed creation of BAM V2 resources with frames of dimensions >= 1024 pixels
• BAM Converter: improved autodetection of PVRZ compression type for BAM V2 output
• Improved reference search:
  • Implemented missing search for WAV references in BCS resources
  • Improved results of music, resource and string references in script and text resources
• Improved BAM navigation controls (BAM Viewer and BAM Converter): jump to first/last cycle, jump to first/last frame, jump to specific cycle (BAM converter only)
• Improved parsing of effect structures in ITM/SPL resources
• Improved UI behavior of "Search CRE/ITM/SPL/STO" and "Advanced Search" while search operations are in process
• Improved representation of area links in WMP resources
• Improved WAV playback controls: reduces situations where time labels overlap each other
• Improved BAM V2 decoder: invalid texture definitions won't terminate the decoding operation anymore
• Improved ITM/SPL ability flags
• Included party scripts (*.bs) in BCS text search (menu Search > Text Search > BCS)
• Changed behavior of selection lists in resource structures when filter mode is enabled: filter text is not automatically removed when a list item is selected
• Restructured WMP viewer and added support of XNEWAREA.2DA for BG2:SoA worldmap
• Updated opcodes 67, 108, 271, 323
• Show memory usage display only on NI's main window
• Fixed potential locking when opening a new game while a resource still contains unsaved data
• Fixed opening ITM and SPL resources in BG2:SoA (without ToB) which formerly crashed because of missing MISSILE.IDS in this game
• Many internal fixes and improvements