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Jazz Jackrabbit PANEL.000 importer\exporter
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Usage:
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EXPORTER:
-The directory must contain 'amm.00', 'pan.000' and 'PANEL.000' to read
from. No files will be overwritten; the JAZZ directory is the best place
-When run, data will automatically be extracted
-Data will be exported s two 8-bit bitmaps
IMPORTER
-The directory must contain two bitmaps of the right size to read data from
-Enter the name of the two bitmaps you wish to use. A 'PANEL.000' file will
be created, overwriting the existing file, if any
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Notes:
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The grey font characters are not used, only the yellow ones. They are of a
fixed size that cannot be altered, in a fixed location.
The program segments the decompressed panel file by location of the
uncompressed data withint the block. This means that everything has a fixed
size in order to fit together, this includes a vast amount of blank space.
This blank space is added automatically.
The palette used by the outputted bitmaps is the diamondus palette and is a
reasonable representation of what the panel will look like. The panel only
uses the default colors, though others can be used, but they will change
between levels!
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Panel format:
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Size of RLE block [Two bytes]
RLE block [Panel images]
#First 17'600 bytes is 320x55 panel and panel font.
#Next 11'904 bytes is six 1'984 byte 64x31 ammo blocks
#Ammo blocks are stored as consecutive 64 byte lines
#Each line consists of bytes from the 64 byte image as follows:
#0,4,8...56,60
#1,5,9...57,61
#2,6,10..58,62
#3,7,11..59,63
#Remaining data is blank space apparently unused
