S.M.B. Support Map Builder

Pepsi · Post by **Pepsi** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 6:00 pm

conure wrote:Well tis the season for giving, so here is a little gift for all you people out there who ever wondered bout modding the bitmaps.map

I guess just to make my self feel better i should post a list of features and what they mean

-Add new files to map
Adds a file (dds) to the new tags cache so it can be built in

-Remove files from map
Removes a tag from the map file so it isnt built into new map

-build new map
This builds a brand new map off only the new tags

-build on old
Builds a new support map with new tags after the original tags so that current maps still work with new bitmaps.map

-Extract all files
This is a process (which will eventually become a thread) that loads in all the maps in your maps folder and proceeds to create headers for the raw data, after that it produces a new .dds file. Please note that this file is NO way complete due to incomplete header research/understandance.

-Add all files in a directory
This loads in all the dds files from a top folder directory for quickly adding lots of dds files at once.

Thats pretty much all it does at this phase in development, i would love to hear suggestions to make this better.

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{TP}Spartan · Post by **{TP}Spartan** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 6:10 pm

thnx conure and pepsi

Matooba · Post by **Matooba** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 6:12 pm

Conure ok this for release in Beta stage already? There is more going into the bitmap.map section for merging. hmm

Cryticfarm · Post by **Cryticfarm** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 6:12 pm

Yayz. Christmas present from santa.

Tyler777 · Post by **Tyler777** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 6:19 pm

is there a mac version? knowing conure there mught be one

if he made it in RB

conure · Post by **conure** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 6:41 pm

Tyler777 wrote: is there a mac version? knowing conure there mught be one if he made it in RB

Not a built version, and not o nthis comp. All my tools are on a comp in another state that i cant access for a few days.

@pepsi
T-bone walker, followed by howlin wolf
/win

Pepsi · Post by **Pepsi** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 10:05 pm

for the record, this is all conures, i just released it for him. i had nothing to do with its making or conception unless conure got the idea to make it to help me with some issues i have with bitmaps.

conure wrote: @pepsi
T-bone walker, followed by howlin wolf
/win

miles davis followed by nina simone.

/trumps ur win

Philly · Post by **Philly** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 6:52 am

I know this is a lame question, but what does this do?

conure · Post by **conure** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 9:51 pm

Builds new support maps, or has potential to, right now i only included the code for the bitmaps.map. It isnt really a great tool that you will ever see used unless you are someone like, say, pepsi who might find use for this in the future when it can decompile bitmaps perfectly and all that jazz.

Philly · Post by **Philly** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 5:49 am

So it can batch extract bitmaps and stuff? Coolio.