OpenSAE Symbol Art Editor

OpenSAE (Open Symbol Art Editor) is an editor and generator for the pseudo-vector symbol art graphics supported by the game Phantasy Star Online 2/PSO2 NGS.

Download here: https://github.com/kodemum/OpenSAE/releases

Features

• Reading/writing game .SAR file format as well as the .SAML format used by the other available editors.
• Full-fledged editor supporting groups, rotation, duplications, bulk color adjustment and more.
• Conversion of any bitmap image into symbol arts using image segmentation analysis.
• Browser for viewing all symbol arts in a directory.
• Backup manager for easily saving specific symbol arts from a game directory.
• Multiple UI themes (dark, grey, light)

Bitmap image conversion

OpenSAE supports converting any specified bitmap image (JPG, PNG, etc.) into a symbol art using a range of conversion options to get the best result.

NOTE: Not all bitmaps can be converted with good results depending on the level of detail they contain; some settings work better than others for specific images.

Technical information

• OpenSAE is written in C#/.NET Core 6.0.
• The user interface is written using WPF.
• The installer is MSI based using WiX for Windows Installer and creates shortcuts and file associations, but the app will run as a portable app too.

Third-partly libraries

• Geometrize (bitmap image segmentation): https://github.com/Tw1ddle/geometrize
• ImageSharp (bitmap image processing): https://github.com/SixLabors/ImageSharp
• WiX Toolset (installer): https://wixtoolset.org
• PixiEditor.ColorPicker: https://github.com/PixiEditor/ColorPicker
• WPFDarkTheme: https://github.com/AngryCarrot789/WPFDarkTheme
• Microsoft.WindowsAPICodePack.Shell
• CommunityToolkit.Mvvm