Why use BrawlCrate?

Why use BrawlCrate? Depends on your use case! Here are some of the advantages of the program relative to BrawlBox:

General

• Improved animation previewer that is more game-accurate relative to BrawlBox versions post-v0.71
• Improved texture rendering system that will detect missing or incorrectly named textures more accurately
• Restored direct Boneflag editing from older versions of BrawlBox
• More features for texture imports
• Files no longer become Write-locked when opened
• Faster update cycle, quicker updater, and settings save between updates
• Improved collada import and export
• Calculate uncompressed size of different files in real-time, allowing easy tracking of filesize limits

Characters

• Automatic generation of metal materials has been improved and expanded
• Metal materials can be toggled and previewed in the model previewer
• Adds automatic generation of Spy costumes
• BrawlEx config files can now be edited directly from the program
• PCS files now use proper compression when saved as PAC files
• Integrated support for DukeItOut's 50 Costume Code
• Allows for usage of a text file list of characters so you don't have to keep track of them

Stages

• Automatically uses improved compression algorithm for stages when available
• Adds duplicate functionality to various file types
• Adds internal documentation for STDTs and Stage Modules
• Adds ability to edit SCLA, or Stage Collision Attribute files
• Greatly improves collision editor, allowing for use of two extra collision types and multiple new flags
• Greatly improves STDT editing, and adds support for editing of other stage table types
• Better parsing of Stage Parameters
• Allows for usage of a text file list of stages so you don't have to keep track of them for your build

Modules

• Modules can now be edited using 2 or 1 byte modes, as well as the default 4-byte mode
• Adds ability to edit and save module annotations, allowing you to take notes on how to edit a module
• Modules no longer get corrupted when saved in the program (and allows buffers to be manually edited)

Music/SFX

• Uses improved BRSTM algorithms from the latest BrawlBox source
• Adds ability to import/export sawnd files to/from a BRSAR

UI

• Adds ability to automatically regenerate stock icon PAT0's
• CSSRoster.dat or CSS.bex from BrawlEx or PMEX can now be directly edited (with drag-and-drop functionality)
• Integrated Color Smash Support

Single Player

• Adds improved Classic Mode parsing, with control over more variables
• Adds improved SSE parsing, with more files able to be edited
• Adds support for loading of text files for Character and Stage lists for custom builds