Creator Of Gpaint32, Please Report

[Nilsiboy]

2 or 3 days ago, i found the program GPaint32 on Don's GP32 page and thought it would come in handy for the gigas community project, but i read that it supports only 32*32 tiles... so Don, could you please modify GPaint32 so that it supports GIGAS' .raw-files? I know the source is available for download, too, but it would be much easier to do this for you, wouldn't it?

 

[don]

What are Giga's .raw files? Any specs?

 

[Nilsiboy]

they are... i dont quite know...hte tool to convert bitmaps into .raw is called bmp2bin....
sorry, i'm uninformed, I'll search google right now :rolleyes:

EDIT: didnt quite find a description but they seem to be files with just the colour information, no contrast or scuh settings....somewhere it said just the output from the digicams sensor" hope that helps you

 

[Axeman]

Isn;t it just easier to do them on a PC? :blink:

Would be a novelty to do them on the GP, but would probably get really annoying after a bit...

 

[Nilsiboy]

but if you want to cahnge a tileyou wouldnt have to shift the files any more to cahnge it. or if you made a tiny 1 pixel mistake, you could just run GPaint32 and fix it without changing the .bmp, converting it to .raw, deleting old .raw and copying new raw

 

[don]

...I still don't know the size of giga's tiles...

 

[Nilsiboy]

they are all in one file, which is 480*1024 pixels
the sprites are in one 162*8160 file
the attack animations are in one 288*2720 file

and thanks for being such a helpful guy don

 

[don]

The thing is - GPaint32 doesn't save 16bit raw (which basically means you get a more or less exact color value for each pixel), it saves palettized 8bit raw. Apart from that (which could be solvable with a bit of work, tbh), it's just not designed for those large images. Sorry, I really can't be bothered to do a complete revamp of a tool I'm not using anymore at the moment.

 

[Nilsiboy]

sad....but thanks you answered to the thread, now i know it wont happen....until i learn to code...that could take a while