Post by memorydump on Feb 6, 2011 21:27:42 GMT -5
I was asking in the Sonic community for some help regarding getting tiles converted properly, and one of the members(MarkeyJester) kindly handed his own personal program he made for his own purposes. It works pretty well and has all the same features of ImaGenesis, possibly more? Here's a copy paste of his comments, and a link for the download.
mrjester.hapisan.com/01_PBLC/GetArt.rar
Hope everyone finds it useful, I sure have!
mrjester.hapisan.com/01_PBLC/GetArt.rar
Put your art in "Bitmap.bmp" (Making sure it's 24-bit format, and uses 16 colours max or less). Put the matching colours in "Palette.bmp" in the order/slots you want (Again, 24-bit format, colours must have matching Green, Blue and Red values as in "Bitmap.bmp"). Run "GetArt.exe" and assuming everything is fine, it'll pad it out into multiples of 8x8 tiles, convert and output, a Palette, an Art full of the tiles, and a Map file while optimising tile for flipping and mirroring. Infact I'm not sure why imaGenesis doesn't support flipping and mirroring optimisation.
Note, make sure the bitmap art isn't too big (as in isn't too bigger than a megadrive's screen size), Sorry if this doesn't work for you, I figured it'd be worth a shot sharing.
Note, make sure the bitmap art isn't too big (as in isn't too bigger than a megadrive's screen size), Sorry if this doesn't work for you, I figured it'd be worth a shot sharing.
Hope everyone finds it useful, I sure have!