mkg3a - a tool to create Prizm .g3a files

[Tari]

I've been working on this most of the weekend thus far, so here's mkg3a, a utility to create Prizm .g3a files from raw binaries, designed for use with the GNU toolchain.

mkg3a-0.1b: http://www.taricorp.net/projects/mkg3a/mkg3a-0.1b.tar.bz2

Usage information is in the included README, you'll need cmake and a functional C compiler to build it. It should compile properly on any system with a working standard library, although my bitmap-handling code won't work on big-endian systems yet (you can remove the #error directive and build it anyway, but icons will be broken).

Icon support is currently limited to .bmp files with 24-bit color depth (I tested with ones generated by Paint.NET), but it should be able to support any image file once I implement the MagickCore-based icon handling (hopefully in the next version).
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[Ashbad]

This sounds awesome! You just convinced me that I need to buy a prizm now

I'm assuming the icons get scaled down somehow into true color format? How do they look after losing the 8 bits of depth?
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[Tari]

[KermMartian]

Ashbad, take a look at some of the existing prizm add-ins that Merth, Tanner, and myself have made; we've completed or made significant progress on quite a few applications between us. Tari, this is stupendous, I will be trying it out as soon as the crashiness issue is resolved with the GNU toolchain.
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[KermMartian]

*bump* Needs moar uploading to the Cemetech Archives! Specifically, the Prizm Tools directory:

http://www.cemetech.net/programs/index.php?mode=file&path=/prizm/tools/
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[Tari]

Submitted, now pending approval. I may have a look at packaging it up for various distributions later today so there can be packages out there for those users who find installing software from source to be confusing.
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[TheStorm]

Unless Tari beats me to it I'll build a mingw based version of it later today.
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[TheStorm]

The crashiness was a gcc thing, but you can use this tool with binaries built with any of the SDK setups. Unless I'm missing something and someone figured it out and didn't tell me.
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"Always code as if the person who will maintain your code is a maniac serial killer that knows where you live" -Unknown

"If you've done something right no one will know that you've done anything at all" -Futurama

"Have a nice day, or not, the choice is yours." Tom Steiner

<Michael_V> or create a Borg collective and call it The 83+
<Michael_V> Lower your slide cases and prepare to be silent linked. Memory clears are futile.

[Ashbad]

[KermMartian]

Jonimus, I know, but this doesn't do me any good for Obliterate unless I have a GCC toolchain that can mess with 64-bit integer types for me. There was a rumor on #cemetech yesterday that you had resolved the problems.

Ashbad, my point was that you can take a look at the icons that Merth, Tanner, and I made for our programs and see that you don't suffer too much from the loss of color depth for icons.
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[Tari]

Meet mkg3a 0.1c. This version includes fixes to the CMakeLists to build properly when using the included getopt implementation, and adds help information on the -i option.

Download: source code or Windows binary.
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[KermMartian]

That's great, Tari! I will certainly grab this immediately. The problem is that we still don't know what's wrong with the completed binaries.
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[Tari]

To keep this thread somewhat up-to-date, the toolchain now works. See elsewhere for that.

Someone was looking for a tool to convert the Prizm's 16-bpp images into some more useful image file, so I finally got around to that now. Here's icodump, which dumps the icons from a g3a file. Simple enough to do something similar for any other sort of file; just ask, and I can do it.

http://media.taricorp.net/icodump.exe (temporary download while I figure out where these other utils should go in the long run)
[link broken indefinitely, you'll have to build icodump yourself]

I also changed mkg3a to make unspecified icons all black rather than leave them uninitialized, so here's a new binary for that as well.
http://media.taricorp.net/mkg3a.exe
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[KermMartian]

I believe that Fishbot/Qwerty was the one looking for that. Nice job on putting it together so quickly. How big is it? If it's decently small, you should readme and zip that icodump tool and submit it to the archives.
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[Tari]

It's tiny (binary ~8kb), but not release-quality at all. That binary, for example, still has debug output of row offsets while writing image data. Sometime when it's more properly complete, sure, I'll upload it, but not now.
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