View source for Redguard: Elder Scrolls Adventures

[[Category:Game_Redguard: Elder Scrolls Adventures | Game: Redguard: Elder Scrolls Adventures]]
[[Category:Complete_Complete | Status: Complete]]
[[Category:Extension_gxa | Extension: gxa]]
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<i>Format Type:</i> Archive<br />
<i>Extensions:</i> gxa <br />
<i>Platforms:</i> <i>unknown</i><br />
<i>Endian Order:</i> Little Endian
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[[Category:Format_Archive | Type: Archive]]
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== Format Specifications ==
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<font color="blue"><i>Still trying to work out the RLE encoding!!!</i></font><br />
<font color="blue"><i>Image or Animation</i></font><br />
<font color="blue"><i>BIG ENDIAN FORMAT (except for a few fields)</i></font><br />
<font color="blue"><i>FILE HEADER</i></font><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;uint32 {4}&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-&nbsp;Header  <font color="purple">(BMHD)</font><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;uint32 {4}&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-&nbsp;Color Palette Offset  <font color="purple">(34)</font> <font color="purple">(relative to the end of this field)</font><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;byte {32}&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-&nbsp;Description  <font color="purple">(GXlib image conversion          )</font><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;uint16 {2}&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-&nbsp;Number of Animation Frames  <font color="purple">(LITTLE ENDIAN)</font><br />
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<font color="blue"><i>COLOR PALETTE (256 Colors)</i></font><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;uint32 {4}&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-&nbsp;Header  <font color="purple">(BPAL)</font><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;uint32 {4}&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-&nbsp;Color Palette Length  <font color="purple">(768)</font><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color="blue"><i>for each color</i></font><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;byte {1}&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-&nbsp;Red<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;byte {1}&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-&nbsp;Green<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;byte {1}&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-&nbsp;Blue<br />
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<font color="blue"><i>IMAGE DATA</i></font><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;uint32 {4}&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-&nbsp;Header  <font color="purple">(BBMP)</font><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;uint32 {4}&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-&nbsp;Pixel Data Length  <font color="purple">(relative to the end of this field)</font><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color="blue"><i>for each animation frame...    </i></font><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;uint16 {2}&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-&nbsp;<font color="red">Unknown </font> <font color="purple">(256)</font><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;uint16 {2}&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-&nbsp;Image Width  <font color="purple">(LITTLE ENDIAN)</font><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;uint16 {2}&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-&nbsp;Image Height  <font color="purple">(LITTLE ENDIAN)</font><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;uint32 {4}&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-&nbsp;null<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;uint32 {4}&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-&nbsp;<font color="red">RLE Encoding? </font> <font color="purple">(0=no encoding, 1=encoding)</font><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;uint32 {4}&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-&nbsp;null<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color="blue"><i>NO ENCODING</i></font><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color="blue"><i>for each pixel</i></font><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;byte {1}&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-&nbsp;Palette Index<br />
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color="blue"><i>RLE ENCODING</i></font><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;uint32 {4}&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-&nbsp;Length of Encoded Data  <font color="purple">(LITTLE)</font><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color="blue"><i>THE BELOW IS NOT RIGHT, AND NOT COMPLETE.</i></font><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color="blue"><i>Note: the first 16 palette indexes are junk data, so maybe 4 bits are used as the indicator field?</i></font><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color="blue"><i>eg bit 1 might mean "repeat the next X pixels", bit 2 might mean "no repeat", bit 3 might mean "go back and copy X pixels" etc.</i></font><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color="blue"><i>for each row of the image</i></font><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color="blue"><i>Read 2 bytes</i></font><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color="blue"><i>if (byte[2] == 0 && byte[1]&128 == 1) {</i></font><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color="blue"><i>byte[1]&127 = Number of Repeats</i></font><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color="blue"><i>Read 1 byte - this is the pixel to repeat</i></font><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color="blue"><i>now continue reading bytes, which are real pixels, until you reach the next null</i></font><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;byte {1}&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-&nbsp;null end of block terminator<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color="blue"><i>}</i></font><br />
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color="blue"><i>else {</i></font><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color="blue"><i>byte[1] is a real pixel</i></font><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color="blue"><i>go back to the start, using byte[2] as the first of the 2 bytes you read</i></font><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color="blue"><i>}</i></font><br />
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<font color="blue"><i>FILE FOOTER</i></font><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;uint32 {4}&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-&nbsp;Header  <font color="purple">(END )</font><br />
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== MultiEx BMS Script ==

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<i>No BMS script</i>
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[[Category:BMS_None | BMS: None]]
== Supported Programs ==

* [[Game Extractor|Game Extractor]]<br />
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[[Category:Program_Game_Extractor | Program: Game Extractor]]
== Notes ==

<i>No additional notes</i>
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[[Category:CE_None | Compression: None]]
== Games ==

* Redguard: Elder Scrolls Adventures
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== Navigation ==

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