impcat1.2.1 - App Store

impcat (short for Interactive Miniature Painting Catalogue) is a simulator for photorealistic painting results on gaming and tabletop miniatures.

This tool gives you a variety of miniature images with individually customizable body sections, that you can paint with colours you own or perhaps wish to purchase. It works with predefined colour palettes, using names and values as promoted by their manufacturers.

To achieve a high quality result the system simulates a four step painting process:
Base colouring, layering, shading and highlighting.

Features:
- A set of 6 built-in miniatures, by Artel "W", with up to nearly 30 individually paintable sections
- A set of built-in colour palettes, as well as additional palettes from our DLC server (around 1000 paints to choose from, and growing)
- A file handling system for importing custom image and paint templates (visit impcat.de/faq for instructions)
- Access to a growing online library of free DLCs (visit impcat.de/about for full list of contents)
- An automated complement recommendation mode that lets you select a base colour and then automatically applies harmonizing layer, shade and highlight paints, which you can then customize at will.
- A photorealistic simulation of the applied paints.
- A shopping list generator that collects the data of all applied colours and gives you the links to the corresponding shop pages
- Saving and loading options for your colour configurations
- A colour creating tool, for creating opaque and metallic paints of any colour you like
- A colour mixing tool, for testing mix results of your paints
- A randomizer, for getting colour scheme inspiration by letting impcat ramdomly distribute a set of colours across the model

Version History Age restriction specifications update 1.2.1 Jan 8 Version 1.2 introduces the following (visit https://www.impcat.de/2022/03/31/impcat-ios-1-2-update/ for full details):

Fixes:
- Significantly improved pinch-zoom behaviour
- Colour adjustments (of built-in palettes)
- Alphabetical order of colour palette selection list
- Improved image template quality
- Randomizer Auto Mode switch

Changes:
- Layout adjustments (including iPad optimization)
- Tutorial update
- AV paint palette structure

New Features:
- “Select” hub
- Import XLSX
- Find paint
- Edit “my Paints”
- Create colour sets
- Shifting paints support 1.2 04/17/2022 Fixes:
- Updated from UIWebView to WKWebView
- Layout adjustments of the Save and Load prompts
- Colour Mixer tool was modified for more realistic representations of mixed paints
- Metallic bug resolved: The Colour Picker tool now also gets the metallic intensity of the tapped section and applies it to the selected section(s)
- iOS Status Bar now merges with the UI: Dark background, light content

New Features:
- Image Selector now has an "import SVG" button for direct template imports from your device's storage
- Imported SVG templates (the ones without a preview thumbnail) are being listed alphabetically
- All colour palettes are being sorted alphabetically
- The first found colour list is now being activated on start-up, allowing you to set up a preferred default palette (e.g. by changing its name to start with an "a")
- Save and Load files are being listed alphabetically
- Image softener: Borders of individual sections no longer have super sharp edges, giving the rendering a more photorealistic result

Unresolved:
- No "Import XLSX" option for colour palettes: These still need to be manually copied into the "Colour-Palettes" folder in your Files app
- External URL links open a new Safari browser window, but reload the app when you return, erasing your entire paint session. Therefore the store links from the shopping list have been disabled, until this problem can be resolved 1.1 10/11/2020 1.0 02/04/2020