02-12-2019, 11:33 AM
Good point about .3do colors. I do remember back in the day when people could share liveries from Paintkit easily and the .3do colors were conveniently included in the .pcx files. With the new carshapes, it seems you would have to share both the .bmp/.mip and .3do and even then, the average user would have a hard time editing the colors on the .3do (at the moment, I don't even know how it's done but I think the file is simple enough that I can probably make the tool open the .3do and allow the user to edit via an interface).
I wonder, instead of encoding text within a .gif file, what if the tool exported a .bmp file that had an extra row at the top that has those .3do colors? The tool could be set up to use that row to update the .3do file, and ignore that row when converting to a .mip. This would also enable folks to very easily share liveries like in the old days.
Progress update: I was able to get the tool to take a whole folder and pack all the files to a .dat file... and got the resulting file to work in ICR2! I was able to do this with both samsepi0l's Reynard '89 carset and an Indy 1995 carset with the 40 car patch.
So, my next step is to do is to convert a .bmp to a .mip file, so I need to learn how to downscale an image.
I wonder, instead of encoding text within a .gif file, what if the tool exported a .bmp file that had an extra row at the top that has those .3do colors? The tool could be set up to use that row to update the .3do file, and ignore that row when converting to a .mip. This would also enable folks to very easily share liveries like in the old days.
Progress update: I was able to get the tool to take a whole folder and pack all the files to a .dat file... and got the resulting file to work in ICR2! I was able to do this with both samsepi0l's Reynard '89 carset and an Indy 1995 carset with the 40 car patch.
So, my next step is to do is to convert a .bmp to a .mip file, so I need to learn how to downscale an image.