Guide to modifying ICONDATA.VMS

[Slurmking]

well the good news is that reading a file is easier than writing a file BUT after you know how to read a file, writing a file becomes a million times easier.

its not even started yet but i wanted to get this working at least.

Well I'm glad that all the work I did was useful to someone. To my knowledge this is the only accurate guide for these files. Everything I found didn't explain the monochrome format and they were wrong about the color, they just assumed it worked like other formats.

[mrneo240]

i royally got fucked by some endian issues but i managed to sort the black and white image too. next up will be actually making these images.

[mrneo240]

and goodnight. ill catch ya tomorrow


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it may be that very soon you can generate the whole package (VMI&VMS) from any image

[Slurmking]

and goodnight. ill catch ya tomorrow


and


it may be that very soon you can generate the whole package (VMI&VMS) from any image

Those look great! Something keeps bothering me however, your first image color 0B is showing as white, did you change the color for testing purposes or did I get something wrong with how the colors are shown?

[mrneo240]

Something keeps bothering me however, your first image color 0B is showing as white, did you change the color for testing purposes or did I get something wrong with how the colors are shown?

Dont second guess yourself

[Slurmking]

Actually color one was correct as the value for Alpha was 0, I was too lazy to fix it in my chart. It is the only one that doesn't have the alpha as F

[mrneo240]

this is the bleeding edge of development. no time for error checking or any of that nonsense

haha. truly though. great work on figuring out this format and the format for the chaos.

[mrneo240]

checkm8?

[Xiden]

Great work gents!

[mrneo240]

done! had to rewrite some color comparison algorithms but good news it led to some optimization and extra control along th e way

Pics
some examples:

another

and a 3rd


imgur if you're about that

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