About patching all BMPs

[SubNinja]

Hi guys

I was 'installing' a new interface in bPT, and happened that only the tga files were visible,
all the patched BMPs could not be read by priston.
So I recompilled the PT File Patcher of bobsobol and recoded the patched BMPs of the new interface,
and.... some worked, and some not. :ehh:

Well. It happens that the files now can only be read with the original header in BMPs, so I manually edited all the various hex headers in the files I need and it worked. And there is pretty much various headers, for example, the image\Sinimage\Inter folder:

       +---Inter
       |   |   Bar_Life.bmp > 41 38 dc 1a 10 19 24 31
       |   |   Bar_LifeSpot.bmp > 41 38 08 0a 10 19 24 31
       |   |   Bar_Mana.bmp > 41 38 dc 1a 10 19 24 31 
       |   |   Bar_ManaSpot.bmp > 41 38 08 0a 10 19 24 31
       |   |   Bar_Stamina.bmp > 41 38 5c 10 10 19 24 31
       |   |   Bar_StaminaSpot.bmp > 41 38 9c 09 10 19 24 31
       |   |   bInvenTory-1.bmp > 41 38 44 10 10 19 24 31
       |   |   bInvenTory.bmp > 41 38 40 11 10 19 24 31
       |   |   block.tga
       |   |   bParty-1.bmp > 41 38 44 10 10 19 24 31
       |   |   bParty.bmp > 41 38 40 11 10 19 24 31
       |   |   bQuest-1.bmp > 41 38 44 10 10 19 24 31
       |   |   bQuest.bmp > 41 38 40 11 10 19 24 31
       |   |   bSkill-1.bmp > 41 38 44 10 10 19 24 31
       |   |   bSkill.bmp > 41 38 40 11 10 19 24 31
       |   |   bStatus-1.bmp > 41 38 44 10 10 19 24 31
       |   |   bStatus.bmp > 41 38 40 11 10 19 24 31
       |   |   bSystem-1.bmp > 41 38 44 10 10 19 24 31
       |   |   bSystem.bmp > 41 38 40 11 10 19 24 31
       |   |   Clock.tga
       |   |   Compass.tga
       |   |   defense.tga
       |   |   Evade.tga
       |   |   Exit.bmp > 41 38 9c 1e 10 19 24 31
       |   |   ExitMenu.tga
       |   |   inter_01.bmp > 41 38 3c 3b 10 19 24 31
       |   |   inter_02.bmp > 41 38 3c 39 10 19 24 31
       |   |   inter_03.bmp > 41 38 3c 27 10 19 24 31
       |   |   Menu-1.tga
       |   |   Menu-2.tga
       |   |   MenuBox.tga
       |   |   mike.tga
       |   |   Option.bmp > 41 38 9c 1e 10 19 24 31
       |   |   Replay.bmp > 41 38 1c 1f 10 19 24 31
       |   |   ShadowLife.tga
       |   |   
       |   +---Button
       |   |       AutoCameraImage.bmp > 41 38 5c 11 10 19 24 31
       |   |       MapOnImage.bmp > 41 38 5c 11 10 19 24 31
       |   |       PixCameraImage.bmp > 41 38 5c 11 10 19 24 31
       |   |       Walk.bmp > 41 38 5c 11 10 19 24 31
       |   |       
       |   +---ButtonInfo
       |   |       Camera_Auto.bmp > 41 38 b4 21 10 19 24 31
       |   |       Camera_Fix.bmp > 41 38 b4 21 10 19 24 31
       |   |       Camera_Hand.bmp > 41 38 b4 21 10 19 24 31
       |   |       InvenInfo.bmp > 41 38 b4 21 10 19 24 31
       |   |       MapOff.bmp > 41 38 b4 21 10 19 24 31
       |   |       MapOn.bmp > 41 38 b4 21 10 19 24 31
       |   |       PartyInfo.bmp > 41 38 b4 21 10 19 24 31
       |   |       QuestInfo.bmp > 41 38 b4 21 10 19 24 31
       |   |       Run.bmp > 41 38 b4 21 10 19 24 31
       |   |       SkillInfo.bmp > 41 38 b4 21 10 19 24 31
       |   |       StatusInfo.bmp > 41 38 b4 21 10 19 24 31
       |   |       SystemInfo.bmp > 41 38 b4 21 10 19 24 31
       |   |       Walk.bmp > 41 38 b4 21 10 19 24 31
       |   |       
       |   +---Chat
       |   |       ChatDefault-1.tga
       |   |       ChatDefault-2.tga
       |   |       ChatDoc-1.tga
       |   |       ChatDoc-2.tga
       |   |       ChatDownButton.bmp > 41 38 48 0e 10 19 24 31
       |   |       ChatSmall-1.tga
       |   |       ChatSmall-2.tga
       |   |       ChatTap_01.bmp > 41 38 bc 10 10 19 24 31
       |   |       ChatTap_02.bmp > 41 38 bc 10 10 19 24 31
       |   |       ChatTap_03.bmp > 41 38 bc 10 10 19 24 31
       |   |       ChatTap_04.bmp > 41 38 bc 10 10 19 24 31
       |   |       ChatTap_05.bmp > 41 38 bc 10 10 19 24 31
       |   |       ChatTap_N11.bmp > 41 38 bc 11 10 19 24 31
       |   |       ChatTap_N12.bmp > 41 38 bc 11 10 19 24 31
       |   |       ChatTap_N22.bmp > 41 38 bc 11 10 19 24 31
       |   |       Chatting06.tga
       |   |       n_line.bmp > 41 38 5c 13 10 19 24 31
       |   |       
       |   +---flash
       |   |       Moon.bmp > 41 38 44 0b 10 19 24 31
       |   |       Sun.bmp > 41 38 44 0b 10 19 24 31
       |   |       
       |   +---ReStart
       |   |       ReStartMain.bmp > 41 38 3c 23 11 19 24 31
       |   |       ReStart_Exit.bmp > 41 38 ec 1f 10 19 24 31
       |   |       ReStart_Field.bmp > 41 38 ec 1f 10 19 24 31
       |   |       ReStart_Town.bmp > 41 38 ec 1f 10 19 24 31
       |   |       
       |   +---sinGage
       |   |       Bar_Anger.bmp > 41 38 24 0f 10 19 24 31
       |   |       Bar_Exp.bmp > 41 38 f4 0f 10 19 24 31
       |   |       Bar_Time.bmp > 41 38 34 0c 10 19 24 31
       |   |       Button_Anger.bmp > 41 38 70 0a 10 19 24 31
       |   |       
       |   \---SkillIcon
       |           G_Select_ChangeJob.bmp > 41 38 ec 1f 10 19 24 31
       |           G_Select_Skill.bmp > 41 38 ec 1f 10 19 24 31
       |           Select_ChangeJob.bmp > 41 38 ec 1f 10 19 24 31
       |           Select_Skill.bmp > 41 38 ec 1f 10 19 24 31

As you all can see, the headers are all messed ! Sometimes one header apply for all BMPs in a folder, but in other folders there are 3 or more different headers for the BMPs.
Oh God, what we're gonna do now ?!
It seems that a batch recoder will not work if there are a thousand different headers :/

Well this is it. Thanks for your attention.

 

[SunnyZ]

Yeah. I had this problem when EPT went to their new version 3.17.2
That was acompinied by teh direct x version update (not sure if that has anything to do with it)

All my BMP graphic mods failed to load in game properly.

What I found out was that if I opened the bmp in a graphic editor like Adobe Fireworks, (NOT PAINT), and resaved the image as a bitmap it would be visible in game again.

What I did was use Adobe Fireworks auto batch conversion tool to open and resave every single bitmap file.

Then everything worked perfectly.

 

[SubNinja]

thanks for reply SunnyZ, I will download Fireworks and try this later

--Edit:
Well, your method seems to work for me too, if i discover something new, i post here.
Thanks for teh help !

 

[SheenBR]

Well, you could try to make a tool to replace the headers for all files... its quite easy. Do you know any programming languages? I can only point the direction to you in C#... You should use BinaryWriter to open the files for writing and play around with Directory class, it should have all methods to search for files in a directory (can search for, *.bmp, *,*, *.txt anything.) and subfolders aswell.