Please help me retexture bmp files.

[Datadayne]

Ok, befor I posted this, I did try to find answers on google and other related forums. But no luck.

So how do I get my retextured bmp files (which I converted to png files with a program called imagicon) to load into my games. I know it can be done because in one of the threads, posed by enix-sama, he retextured some characters and got it to load up in the game. I know the textures he retextured were once bmp files because I tried to retexture them myself.

Please help!

 

[mudlord]

From what I know about retexturing, some BMP's when dumped are actually CI based files...But generally, BMPs should be left in thier original format, and not compressed, when doing the retexturing....

But however, PNG's can also be CI based...to store transparency data, which means in future, possibly, BMP dumping can be removed from the plugin, to help with space issues when dumping/loading hi res textures..(thats if of course, BMGLib supports writing colour indexed PNGs...)....

But to load textures, you must makes sure the filename you output is EXACTLY the same as the original. Any change to the filename at all, and it won't load.

 

[Mollymutt]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. You do NOT need to retexture bmp files. Check out any of the packs that have been uploaded. They are all png files. Anything that's in the bmp folders is also in the ci_by_png folder. I have been at this for a long time now, and I can assure you that there is nothing in the bmp files that you need. In fact, I don't think the plugin will even load anything else but png files. The only two folders that I've ever used are the ci_by_png and the png_by_rgb_a.

 

[Datadayne]

Thanks mudlord! I finaly got it to work. I needed to a program called RLE8demo.
You need to encode it to RLE instead of converting it to png.

Again thanks for the keywords and the quick reply.

 

[Datadayne]

Hey mollymut, are you using the 6.1.1 beta? because I used to get those folders when I used the beta plugin. But changed back to 6.1.0. There are textures that are bmp that I do want to retexture. Like in TWINE, most of the textures are bmp's, if you want to retexture them, then you need to RLE encode it.

Heres the link to the demo product.
http://www.codeproject.com/bitmap/rle8bitmap.asp

 

[Mollymutt]

Like I said, I never saw the need to . I don't even look in those folders.

 

[M[u]ddy]

Like in TWINE, most of the textures are bmp's, if you want to retexture them, then you need to RLE encode it.

Everything thats in the bmp folder can be found in one of the png folders, too.
The bmps are just converted pngs to make them load faster, but since a bmp pack would be much to large (about 1GB) you should not use them.
Converting bmps to pngs whouls be unnecessary complicated since there is already a file , dumped in the right format.

 

[Datadayne]

No, I did not convert them to png. I run it throught RLE to encode it.

 

[Mollymutt]

But the point is that everything you need is in the png folders.

 

[Terranigma]

In fact, I don't think the plugin will even load anything else but png files.

Actually, that's not true. When I was testing out Harvest Moon, I was able to mess around with the BMP files and it loaded. I'm not saying you should bother with them, but I'm just saying they will load.