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| November 25, 2006, 22:15 | |
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fenics
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I'm looking for info on the FPG file format(both 16 bit and 8 bit, compressions used, etc). there used to be some info on my div manual (lost it) and on the Flamingbird forum, but it's gone now. Any info on .map, .pal, .fnt, etc files is handy too... I appreciate any help, thanks in advance...  [Edited on November 25, 2006 by fenics] ____________ |
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| November 25, 2006, 23:24 | |
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t money
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what kind of info? do you have a specific question? heres what's in the appendix of the div manual: Head(+0) 'f','p','g'- 3bytes (ascii). 1A0D0A00- 4bytes (hex). Version- 1 bytes(0). Subtotal: 8 bytes. ______________________________________________ Palette(+8) (See PAL file) Subtotal: 768 bytes. ______________________________________________ Ranges of colours (+776) (See PAL file) Subtotal: 576 bytes. ______________________________________________ Graphic Maps contained in the file (+1352) To the end of file, description of a graphic map. Code of the graphic- 1 double word. Length of the record in bytes- 1 double word. Description- 32 bytes (ascii). Name of file- 12 bytes. Width- 1 double word. Height- 1 double word. Points number- 1 double word. Description of point x Points number. Coordinate x- 1 word. Coordinate y- 1 word. Graphic Map Points of the map- Width x Height bytes. Subtotal (per each map): 64+(4x points number)+(width x Height) ______________________________________________ Total: 1352 + Records of the maps. ____________ surrogate: wink... did you say wink, or did you wink? michael: he said that too dad. |
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| November 26, 2006, 00:35 | |
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fenics
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Thanks a lot. Yeah, I meant info about the file format structure. That was what I needed. I still need info on .pal files and 16 bit fpg's and such though.
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| November 26, 2006, 01:57 | |
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PEader
お前はもう死んでいる 1486 posts 
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If you are familiar with C then you could work out the format from the source code for the fpg tool that comes/came with fenix.
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| November 26, 2006, 03:14 | |
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fenics
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I'm not VERY familiar with c, but even so that is very helpfull, thank you
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| November 26, 2006, 15:41 | |
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PEader
お前はもう死んでいる 1486 posts
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Well you can always ask here for help. ;=)
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| November 26, 2006, 15:45 | |
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yonni
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The info on PAL files in the DIV manual: -------------------------------------------------------- PAL Files Head(+0): 'p','a','l' 3 bytes (ascii). 1A0D0A00 4 bytes (hex). Version 1 byte (0). subtotal: 8 bytes. Palette(+8) 256 colour components: Red 1 byte (0..63). Green 1 byte (0..63). Blue 1 byte (0..63). Subtotal: 768 bytes. Range of colours(+776) 16 definitions of range: Number of colours 1 byte (8,16 o 32) Type of range 1 byte (0:direct, 1-2-4-8 editable each "n" colours). Fixed 1 byte (0:no, 1:yes). Black colour 1 byte Colours in the range 32 bytes (according to type). Subtotal: 576 bytes. TOTAL: 1352 bytes. NOTE: To export to other formats, which lack the information about the range of colours, to DIV Games Studio files, the 576 bytes of the ranges must be defined as shown: 16,0,0,16 dup (0), 16,0,0,16 dup (16), 16,0,0,16 dup (32), ... 16,0,0,16 dup (240) These 576 bytes cannot be defined as zeros or they would make the file not valid. -------------------------------------------------------- There you go, hope that helps. ____________ |
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| November 27, 2006, 14:27 | |
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Dennis
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That feels like reading a receipt  That was in the DIV2 manual? [Edited on November 27, 2006 by Dennis] ____________ Kwakkel |
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| November 27, 2006, 18:03 | |
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yonni
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That was the DIV original manual, its an exact transcription.
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| November 29, 2006, 13:53 | |
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fenics
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yeah, very useful, thank you. though I don't really get the whole color ranges thing. if I read in the pixel data(basically just a list of palette indexes o.o), replacing it with rgb values using the 256 color components in the palette, I get a perfect looking picture. well, almost perfect but that has nothing to do with this... what are these color ranges in the palette for? and why are the rgb values of the colors in the palette numbers from 0-63, not 0-254 like I'd.. expect them to be?
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| November 29, 2006, 21:43 | |
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PEader
お前はもう死んでいる 1486 posts
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Quoting fenics: yeah, very useful, thank you. though I don't really get the whole color ranges thing. if I read in the pixel data(basically just a list of palette indexes o.o), replacing it with rgb values using the 256 color components in the palette, I get a perfect looking picture. well, almost perfect but that has nothing to do with this... what are these color ranges in the palette for? and why are the rgb values of the colors in the palette numbers from 0-63, not 0-254 like I'd.. expect them to be? The colour ranges where use inside the Div Games Studio map editor for gradients, maybe for other things also? I think the 0-63 is a throw back to the MS-DOS days. I asked a few times on the forums and nobody answered me. It was quite annoying not being able to use 256 shades. So if you find out why please tell me. Also I think you mean 0-255 ;-) ____________ I see 57,005 people. |
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| November 29, 2006, 23:10 | |
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fenics
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Ah okay, so I don't have anything to do with the color ranges then... Yeah, I meant 0-255 :B still... *waits for someone to explain the 0-63*
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| November 29, 2006, 23:21 | |
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PEader
お前はもう死んでいる 1486 posts
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Quoting fenics: Ah okay, so I don't have anything to do with the color ranges then... Yeah, I meant 0-255 :B still... *waits for someone to explain the 0-63* It is because of VGA. VGA was only able to display a total of 262,144 colours which is 64^3. I'm going to leave it at that. VGA could only display that amount of colours and Div Games Studio's palettes reflect the limitations of that. ____________ I see 57,005 people. |
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| October 1, 2007, 22:29 | |
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fenics
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*snip* problem solved due to reply in chat  [Edited on October 2, 2007 by fenics] ____________ |
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| October 2, 2007, 19:47 | |
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Fiona
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Quoting Dennis: That feels like reading a receipt That was in the DIV2 manual? Haha the div2 manual is perhaps the laziest pile of shit ever, especially in comparison to the div1 manual. If I had bought div2 and hadn't previously used div, I'd have gone "what the fuck" and taken it back. Infact it was just a defective product that should never have been allowed out of the door, we should have all taken it back. [Edited on October 2, 2007 by Fiona] ____________ laffo |
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| October 3, 2007, 09:15 | |
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fenics
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I bought div2 as imported version; it was in english and I had the div1 manual in dutch. They were the same, but the english version was a lot more useful, since it wasn't full of stupid translations of terms that shouldn't even be translated >.>
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| October 9, 2007, 00:23 | |
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Dennis
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Quoting Fiona: Quoting Dennis: That feels like reading a receipt That was in the DIV2 manual? Haha the div2 manual is perhaps the laziest pile of shit ever, especially in comparison to the div1 manual. If I had bought div2 and hadn't previously used div, I'd have gone "what the fuck" and taken it back. Infact it was just a defective product that should never have been allowed out of the door, we should have all taken it back. [Edited on October 9, 2007 by Dennis] ____________ Kwakkel |
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