New versions of NearInfinity available

Near Infinity (or short: NI) is an open source cross-platform browser and editor for resources of Infinity Engine games.

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Summary of new features: [spoiler]

• Supports the following Infinity Engine games, including expansions:
  • Baldur's Gate
  • Baldur's Gate II
  • Icewind Dale
  • Icewind Dale II
  • Planescape: Torment
  • Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition
  • Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear
  • Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition
  • Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition
  • Planescape Torment: Enhanced Edition
• Supports the following fan-made conversions and compilations:
  • BGTutu and EasyTutu
  • Baldur's Gate Trilogy (BGT)
  • Enhanced Edition Trilogy (EET)
• Supports case-sensitive filesystems (as found on Linux and derivates) without the requirement of tolowered game installations.
• DLC support (which is currently used for the "Siege of Dragonspear" expansion provided by GOG and Stream)
• Native ACM and WAVC sound support (no acm2wav or acmtool required anymore)
• Native Ogg Vorbis sound support
• Native MVE movie playback support (the movie format used in the original BG1/BG2 and IWD games)
• A new area viewer (found in the view tab of each ARE resource entry), featuring:
  • Day and night maps
  • Simulation of different daylight lighting conditions
  • Overlay support (for displaying water, lava, etc.)
  • Visualization of various map structures (actors, regions, doors, animations, ...)
  • Map zooming (fixed zoom levels and auto-zoom)
• Various conversion routines (found under the menu Tools->Convert):
• a powerful BAM Converter
• Image to BMP (supports transparency; required for images displayed in BG(2):EE's item descriptions)
• Image to MOS
• Image to PVRZ
• Image to TIS

Syntax highlighting support and selectable color schemes for BCS scripts, GLSL and SQL resources Extended search (found under the menu Search) and many more... [/spoiler] These are work in progress releases, so you may still find a bug or two, especially in the new features. You might want to browse this thread for more information or visit the download page once in a while to see if updated versions are available. Alternatively you can visit the main branch of NearInfinity, however it is updated much less often. @AstroBryGuy is providing Mac OS X specific app packages of the latest Near Infinity snapshots. It provides a better integration into the system, such as adding a Dock icon or using the system menubar. Note: NearInfinity requires Java 8 or higher. It has been tested mostly on Windows systems, but it should work reliably on any system supported by Java. Feel free to test it, especially the new features, and post your comments, bug reports or suggestions either here or in this thread.