Contents

• What is pPainter?
• How To Use
• Features
• Credits
• Screenshots
• Requirements
• Running
• Building the Executable (.exe)
• Files
• License

"What is pPainter?"

A simple PSX TIM image editor/viewer built with PyQt6. Supports editing, palette manipulation, and exporting to common image formats.

How To Use:

• Run GTVolTools

• Extract [VOL] as instructed

• Once your VOL is extracted open pPainter

• Load the TIM file you wish to edit which is located in the [carwheel] folder.

• Save file

• In GTVolTools select "Make GT2 VOL from Directory"

• Once process is finished replace the VOL from and original copy of Gran Turismo 2 NTSC using UltraISO

• Save As (Give it your own name)

• Run the new .BIN file in duckstation.

Features:

• Open and edit PSX TIM files (4/8/16/24 bpp)
• Palette editing for indexed images
• Export to PNG,
• Save as TIM or standard image formats

Credits:

• GTModding-Hub
• Adeyblue
• Pez2k
• GTModding-Discord

Screenshots:

Requirements:

• Python 3.8+
• PyQt6
• Pillow
• PyInstaller Install dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Running:

To run the program:

python ppainter.py

Building the Executable (.exe):

1. Install PyInstaller if not already installed:

   pip install pyinstaller

2. Build the executable:

   pyinstaller --onefile --windowed --icon=ico.ico ppainter.py

   • The output .exe will be in the dist/ directory.

3. (Optional) To include the icon and other resources, make sure they are in the same directory as the .exe or specify them in the PyInstaller spec file.

Files:

• ppainter.py - Main application source
• requirements.txt - Python dependencies
• ico.ico, ico.png - Application icons
• ppainter.spec - PyInstaller build specification (optional)
• build/ - Build output directory

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.