Reference Warrior

Current Versions
RWs(Build 2024.12.12.1444)
RWv (Build 2024.12.12.1323)

What is Reference Warrior?

Reference Warrior is a image viewer and organizer, which will make your day to day creative process easier and more efficient.

The RW Tool allows you to:

• Lock the image viewer and make it transparent so you can trace through to any other 3D or 2D creative software (like digital tracing paper).
• Drag and drop images.
• Opens the following image files - gif(+animation), png(+animation), jpg, bmp, tiff, tga, psd and more.
• Manipulate the reference images by rotating, panning, scaling, setting transparency, copying, adding text etc.
• Create image collections (.rwc) which will group reference images together and remember their scale and position etc.
• You can use the Screen Capture tool (Selection Capture) to create art boards and working references.
• Hide tool allows you to toggle your reference images visibility.
• Keep on top allows you to make your reference images the priority over other windows open in your workspace.
• Tiny and task tray modes means you won’t have your workspace cluttered.
• You can access all the tools from the RW task tray icon at any time.

Reference Warrior is in constant development so please let us know if you have any feature requests or find any bugs – info@wilierco.com

For more info please see the link below:

RW2019R1 Quick Help
RW2018 Quick Help

Latest News

|Pinned 3rd Feb 2021

Reference Warrior is an Internal project

• Reference Warrior is not for sale to the public.
• This may change in the future...

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13th Dec 2024

Reference Warrior Suit Update

• RWs (Build 2024.12.12.1444).
• Reference Warrior End of Year Update. Best wishes see
  you all next year.

23rd Oct 2024

Reference Warrior Suit Available

• RWs (Build 2024.10.21.2006).
• Reference Warrior Suit can now be downloaded from your named server.
• Downloading individual applications will end 31st Dec 2025 as
  we consolidate everything into one package.

6th Oct 2024

Reference Warrior Update

• RWv (Build 2024.10.5.2031).
• RWm (Build 2024.10.4.1432).
• RWaa (Build 2024.10.1.1938).

15th April 2024

Reference Warrior Update

• RWv (Build 2024.4.15.1704).
• RWm (Build 2024.4.12.1234).
• RWaa (Build 2024.4.9.1323).

2nd Jan 2024

Reference Warrior Update

• All RW servers have now been moved.
• Please refresh all testing data.

5th Dec 2023

Reference Warrior End of Year Update
Best wishes see you all next year

• RWv (Build 2023.12.4.1425).
• RWm (Build 2023.11.29.2002).
• RWaa (Build 2023.12.4.1237).

6th Sept 2023

Reference Warrior Viewer Update

• RWv (Build 2023.9.6.1231).

31st March 2023

Reference Warrior Updates

• RWv (Build 2023.3.20.0959).
• RW2019R1 (Build 2023.2.18.1055).
• RW2019R1 will be deprecated...

21st Dec 2022

Reference Warrior End of Year Updates
Best wishes see you all next year

• RWv (Build 2022.12.13.1514).
• RW2019R1 (Build 2022.12.13.1234).

9th Aug 2022

Reference Warrior Updates

• Reference Warrior updates avalible.
• RWv (Build 2022.9.8.0935).
• RW2019R1 (Build 2022.3.8.0944).

30th April 2022

Reference Warrior Updates

• RWrx update avalible.
• Build(2022.4.30.1346).

11th March 2022

Reference Warrior Updates

• RW2019R1 update avalible.
• Build(2022.3.11.1459).

21st Dec 2021

Reference Warrior Updates

• RWrx and RW2019R1 updates avalible.
• A little public video to show how far we've come.
• Thank you.

15th Sept 2021

Reference Warrior Updates

• RWrx beta build update.
• Little thank you video on it's way.
• and who knows maybe, just 'maybe' a little public video to show how far we've come.

6th Jul 2021

Reference Warrior Updates

• RWrx beta build update.
• We decided to do a quick update on RW2019 R1 due to having limited time lately to
  spend on the RW projects. (*Download at your usual servers)
• We will hopefully be at full speed soon.

8th Aug 2020

Reference Warrior beta renamed

• 2020 beta will now be known as RWrx.

12th March 2020

Reference Warrior new beta

• Unfortunately all beta testing is now internal.

31st Dec 2019

Thank you to all

• Last Build and release of 2019 R1:- (2019.12.26.1015)
• See you all in the new year.

17th Sept 2019

Change Over

• Reference Warrior Updates.
• As most people are now using their allotted servers for information
  on updates and releases the wilierco.com website will no longer carry
  Reference Warrior news announcements.
• These webpages will stay in place as legacy help only.

12th Aug 2019

RW2019R1

• Reference Warrior 2019 R1 Update is now available.
• Reference Manager update 20 is now included with new project.
• New Reference Warrior Beta is now available.
• For testing download new dataset.
• Internal projects

4th July 2019

Closed Testing

• Reference Manager update 15 is now available.
• Beta installer testing.
• Closed beta testing.

30th May 2019

Closed Testing

• Reference Manager update 11 is now available.
• With new Midnight_Blue UI.
• Beta installer testing.
• Closed beta testing.

6th May 2019

Closed Testing

• Reference Manager update 10.8 is now available.
• Everyone must update test data now.
• Closed beta testing.

15th April 2019

Closed Testing

• Reference Manager update 10 is now available.
• Closed beta testing.

1st Nov 2018

Closed Release

• New release.
• A warm thanks to everyone who helped in 2018.
  Enjoy, see you all in the new year, stay tuned...
• Closed testing.

10th Sept 2018

Closed Release of Beta Build (0.2.4.0)

• New build release.
• This build will be valid until the 1st of Nov 2018.
• With Reference Manager Update 7.
• Closed beta testing.

6th Aug 2018

Closed Release of Beta Build (0.1.1.0)

• New build release.
• This build will be valid until the 1st of Sept 2018.
• With Reference Manager Update 5.
• It is with great regret there will be no open beta testing.

7th July 2018

Closed Release of Beta Build (0.1.0.8)

• New build release.
• This build will be valid until the 1st of Aug 2018.
• With Reference Manager Update 4.
• It is with great regret there will be no open beta testing.

6th June 2018

Release of Reference Warrior 2018RT1(free to use version)

• This is a free to use version with a single-seat license.
• This version is unsupported and will not be developed further.
• tga, psd, pcx, dds, hdr file types are not supported.
• This was only made possible by donations.

20th May 2018

Closed Release of Beta Build (0.1.0.0)

• New build release.
• This build will be valid until the 1st of July 2018.
• First look at Reference Manager.
• It is with great regret there will be no open beta testing.

11th May 2018

Release of Beta Build (0.0.9.1)

• New build release.
• This build will be valid until the 1st of June 2018.
• You can now open more file types- Photoshop files and Targa files to name a few (tga, psd, pcx, dds, hdr and more.).
• Fixed image name Unicode Bug in Collections.
• it is with great regret there will be no lifting of the beta restriction.

20th March 2018

Release of Beta Build (0.0.8.5)

• New build has been released.
• This build will be valid until the 1st of May 2018.
• Added support for playing Animated Gif.
• Shortcuts Keys(F11 play mode F12 pause).

6th March 2018

Release of Beta Build (0.0.8.0)

• New build has been released.
• This build will be valid until the 1st of April 2018.
• More Shortcuts Keys have been added.

1st Feb 2018

Release of Beta Build (0.0.7.0)

• New build has been released.
• This build will be valid until the 1st of March 2018.
• Shortcuts Keys have been added.