U7 .shp files and bitmaps

[James]

Hi all,

I have a weird problem. I've been working on a tool to convert u7 .shp files to windows .bmp. When I open up the newly generated bitmap file with paint the image is all screwed up, but when I load the same bitmap into a program I wrote it comes out fine (except for images that are screwed up anyways due to offsets being wrong, I believe). Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

-Beholder

[Dominus]

hm, it might be useful to look at the code of Exult as Exult Studio already has the option to export frames from the shp files (frames might even be what makes Paint screw up) as png files.

Or even look at the code of shp2pcx in /tools of the exult code

[James]

I'll take a looksie, thanks.

-Beholder

[wjp]

From what you say it seems as if you're writting invalid bitmaps.

[Nuclear Loser]

does the program you wrote show other bitmap files fine??? Also.. try your bitmaps with another viewer as well.

[James]

It would seem that I'm writing the bitmaps incorrectly. I don't understand what's wrong with it though. It's just the image buffer I think, because all of the header fields and the palette seem fine.

I calloc() the appropriate size of memory and double check to make sure it's right and then just set all of the bytes to 255. After writing it to file it still comes out weird. Can I post the parts of the code that seem to be the trouble? (it's not very big)

[Kristoph]

Go read the bitmap specification. That format is evil, I know about it myself

The biggest problem I got is that all lines must be have a length multiple of 4 bytes. So add padding at the end of your lines.

[James]

Wow, it is evil...That was it the whole time. Thanks!!!!! =)

(Beholder invented a few new swearing combos because of this)

-Beholder