ANM Files, SGS.DAT Compression, and MAP Editing

[黒い灯影]

oh yeah, your right about the ANM files containing no timing or image sequence data, since all the timing and sequence and layering is done by the WIN scripts, yup, oh well, but your right it would cut down on alot of time

converting the blue to transparent should be an option thou,
since there are some times when blue is used for scripting,
if you look at the first frame from MENUD.ANM, those colors are meant for the scripting,
the same way the colors on the MAP**M.ANM files are meant for executing certain parts of the script
but it should default to make blue transparent

[JG]

As promised...

Sogna ANM Editor 1.0.0 (28KB)

All the little bugs are fixed.  Successfully tested on over 2500 ANM files.

The following 5 files fail due to frames with widths not divisible by 4: V16 Imagine's Y39; CTR's ASB0; and F50's F501, F512, and F589
Going to need to do some more research on how the decoder should react in this case.

Please let me know if you run into errors  on other files (screenshots would be most beneficial to diagnosis)


I'll take the option of making transparent to non-blue under advisement.  Depends on how many people run into a problem using it the way it is.

[MMX]

I'm totally sweating JG's coding skillz right now.  What do you use again, C#?

[JG]

What do you use again, C#?

VB.Net.  Practically the same thing.

[Echelon]

So, anyone messed with this yet?

[JG]

Apparently just 黒い灯影 and me.

I'm waiting for someone to drop another "where can i find animated gifs for fill-in-the-blank-VIPER-game?" post so I can direct them here.

[bfg00]

Looks like it.  My hat's off to the two of you for throwing it together, nice job.

[Echelon]

Any progress on this or anything?

[JG]

I looked into the compression format on SGS.DAT, so I could try to make my app support compressed ANM files, too.  Since VIPER games have been around since Windows 3.1, I thought perhaps Sogna used something simple to implement, like the Microsoft Deflate algorithm since its built into the Windows API.*  Alas, they did not, so the compression format and decoding algorithm remains unknown.




* It's long since been known SGS does not use a Lempel-Ziv derivitive like gzip.

[黒い灯影]

I dont think it's a standard compression
Did you see my post above, concerning the Sogna's compression algorithm?
it uses a sort of callback, or repeat-n-of-lines-ago+length

ANM Files, SGS.DAT Compression, and MAP Editing

if you dont understand it, i'll try to re-write the explanation again

also, i think those incompatible ANMs, i think it uses the last image (usually the background) as a base
one of CTR's incompatible ANMs was like that,

[黒い灯影]

Finally decided to change the menus into english..

ANM Files, SGS.DAT Compression, and MAP Editing

next thing i'll tackle are the fight menus