TOWER VIEW

Tower View is a multi image viewer made with rust and powered by Amethyst. Tower's purpose is to offer a simple, light, and perfomant image viewer with a bunch of features adapted to the CG world and digital creation.

Tower View 0.0.1 is perfect for showcasing your texture maps and compare images.

Features TowerView-0.0.1 :

• Load images from CLI tower <image_path>...
• Display 8bit and 16bit images
• Display several images as same time
• Move the active image with alt + drag
• Arrange the images as atlas on the board with key l
• Delete the active image from the view board with key del
• Bring the active image to front, on top of each other with key shift + t
• Adjust channels values with shift + c
• Change active image to the next one present in the current directory with arrow key letf / right
• Caching in background of the images present in the current directory
• Translate camera view with spacebar + drag
• Keep ratio of the camera when window size change
• Camera view zoom in / out with ctrl + drag
• Center camera and cursor when double click, handy to focus a precise image point
• Camera fit the active image with key f
• Camera fit all the images with shift + f
• Camera fit the real image size with key s

Major features TowerView-0.1.0 :

• Display 16f and 32f images
• Support OpenExr format
• Create a tower file format, to save the tower scene
• Create a file settings
• Improve performance
• Better performance managing

Long run features :

• Support OCIO
• Display 3d objects
• Add timeline
• Read images sequences
• Read various video format

Build tower from source :

If you don't want to build from source you can download the binaries https://github.com/col-one/tower-view/releases

After installing correctly rust, https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install

git clone https://github.com/col-one/tower-view.git
cd tower
cargo build --release

Run tower from target directory

target/release/tower some_image_paths

Basic manipulation

There is no "selection" concept with TowerView but an "active" concept, the active image is the first image under the mouse cursor.

• drag and drop one or several images file to add it the scene: gif1 gif2
• ctrl + click drag to zoom in/out: gif
• space + click drag to pan the view: gif
• f key to focus the view on the active image: gif
• shift + f key to focus the view on the whole set of images: gif
• s key to set the view at 100%, the real size of images: gif
• del key to delete the active image: gif
• key l to layout images as a grid atlas: gif
• double click to center view at cursor position: gif
• alt + click drag to move the active image: gif
• shift + t key to bring the active image on top of all others: gif
• arrow left / right key to display the next / previous image of the active image: gif
• shift + c to display channels factor: