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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Liberator on April 03, 2003, 05:00:45 pm

Title: Conversion
Post by: Liberator on April 03, 2003, 05:00:45 pm

Is there a program to set the color depth in a PCX to 256 colors?

Title: Conversion
Post by: diamondgeezer on April 03, 2003, 05:19:20 pm

You want Irfan (www.irfanview.com), so you do :nod:

Title: Conversion
Post by: Sesquipedalian on April 03, 2003, 05:32:52 pm

Other people swear by Bright (http://www.btinternet.com/~ken.sue/Bright.exe).

Title: Conversion
Post by: Liberator on April 03, 2003, 10:12:13 pm

I mean by Batch.

I've got 190 files to convert.

By the way the link to Bright is broken.

Title: Conversion
Post by: Galemp on April 03, 2003, 10:28:34 pm

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Originally posted by diamondgeezer
You want Irfan (www.irfanview.com), so you do :nod:

It does batch conversion and renames as well.

Title: Conversion
Post by: Liberator on April 03, 2003, 10:51:08 pm

But it can't reduce color depth while converting.

Wait, nevermind, I found the control.  Sorry to waste everybody's time.

Title: Conversion
Post by: Black Wolf on April 03, 2003, 11:41:04 pm

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Originally posted by Liberator
But it can't reduce color depth while converting.

Wait, nevermind, I found the control.  Sorry to waste everybody's time.

That colour is restricted under Section 14, Paragraph 28 of the Beta Aquilae Convention. Any fuirther use will reslt in instant stabbity stab stab stabbage.

Title: Conversion
Post by: Sesquipedalian on April 03, 2003, 11:47:45 pm

New link:
http://www.gratilog.net/anglais/images/Bright106e.exe

Oh by the way, I can't give any personal testimonial about either of these programs.  I've not used either of them before -- just passing on the info.

Title: Conversion
Post by: Liberator on April 04, 2003, 04:31:25 am

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Originally posted by Black Wolf


That colour is restricted under Section 14, Paragraph 28 of the Beta Aquilae Convention. Any fuirther use will reslt in instant stabbity stab stab stabbage.

My apologies.  It won't happen again.:nervous:

Title: Conversion
Post by: Bobboau on April 04, 2003, 04:40:31 am

I use bright for large ani conversion, it takes forever but if you have your files in TGA format
make a bat file like this,

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bright file*.tga -common -o
ac file0000.pcx

and have the bright exe and the AC exe in the same folder as the source files
you simply run the bat and go for a walk, depending on the size and number of files (assuming were talking a big ani here, weapon icons won't take long at all) it can take half an hour to two or three hours but you're not doing anything, and the animation will look perfict

Title: Conversion
Post by: Darkage on April 04, 2003, 05:04:43 am

I do the same for conversion as you Bobboau, and it works/looks great when converted. Allot better then Irfanview, i only use that program when i want to watch a whole bunch of files.