Blood Pill - isgallagher/DpOmnicide GitHub Wiki
{{finished}} {{grammar}} File:Bloodpill.png Blood Pill - a set of tools to manipulate with .BIG files. It can be used to view the data stored in '''pill.big''' - resources file of Blood Omen.
Blood Pill is able to decode all filetypes used in the game into readable/listenable form: speech sound, tile, sprite, tim graphich and more. Only Blood Omen .BIG files are supported.
===Features===
- Packing/Unpacking of .BIG files for PC and PSX versions of BO
- TIM <-> TGA autoconversion during packing and unpacking
- RAW ADPCMWAV/OGG autoconversion during packing and unpacking
- Unpacking sprites (enemies and objects) to separate TGA pictures
- Unpacking tiles (level textures) to TGA
- Unpacking the multiobject files ('merged' files that is used on some entries in BO)
- .JAM video to .TGA decoding
- Decoding VAG files to WAV PCM/OGG sounds
- Decoding levels to TGA images (with optional developer info shown)
- Patching .big files
- Providing support for Blood Omnicide installation
===Usage===
Blood Pill is a commandline utility. To get available command list, execute it without any parms. Also there is some sample batch scripts in samples/ folder, covering most useful stuff:
Sample batch scripts:
- '''bigfile_extract_file.bat''' : unpacks one file from pill.big.
- '''bigfile_list.bat''' : create a listing file from pill.big
- '''bigfile_unpack.bat''' : unpack pill.big with all conversions enabled.
- '''bigfile_unpack_raw.bat''' : unpack pill.big with pure filetypes (no conversions).
- '''bigfile_unpack_fortranslating.bat''' : unpack with TIM->TGA and ADPCM->WAV conversion which is useful for making your own BO PC translation.
- '''bigfile_unpack_oggsounds.bat''' : unpack pill.big with all conversions and sound files being converted to Ogg Vorbis.
- '''bigfile_unpack_mapsonly_solids.bat''' : raw unpack with MAP->TGA conversion, showing content blocks.
- '''bigfile_unpack_mapsonly_plain.bat''' : raw unpack with MAP->TGA conversion, showing no additional info.
- '''bigfile_unpack_mapsonly_withlighting.bat''' : raw unpack with MAP->TGA conversion, showing map lighting.
- '''bigfile_unpack_mapsonly_withtriggers.bat''' : raw unpack with MAP->TGA conversion, showing map triggers.
- '''bigfile_pack.bat''' : create a new pill2.big based on 'bigfile' folder (converts back all tga and wav).
- '''tga2tim(test.tga).bat''' : TGA->TIM conversion
- '''tim2tga(test.tim).bat''' : TIM->TGA conversion
- '''tim2tga(test.tim)_16to24.bat''' : TIM->TGA conversion with 16->24 bits conversion enabled
To use sample batch files. copy them to directory that contains bpill.exe (pill.big should be there too).
==Gallery== ====Unpacked sprites and tiles==== File:bloodpilltiles.jpg File:bloodpillsprites.jpg File:bloodpillsprites2.jpg
====JAM decoded frames==== File:jam1.png File:jam2.png File:jam3.png File:jam4.png File:jam5.png File:jam6.png
====Blood Omen maps converted to TGA==== {| | valign=top align=center | File:bomap1.jpg | valign=top align=center | File:bomap2.jpg | valign=top align=center | File:bomap3.jpg | valign=top align=center | File:bomap4.jpg |- | valign=top align=center | File:bomap5.jpg | valign=top align=center | File:bomap6.jpg | valign=top align=center | File:bomap7.jpg | valign=top align=center | File:bomap8.jpg |} ==Download==
- [https://github.com/paulvortex/BloodPill GitHub repository]
- [http://omnicide.razorwind.ru/files/bloodpill/bpill_1.1.zip Blood Pill v1.1]
- [http://omnicide.razorwind.ru/files/bloodpill/bpill_1.09.zip Blood Pill v1.09]
- [http://omnicide.razorwind.ru/files/bloodpill/bpill_1.01.zip Blood Pill v1.01]
- [http://omnicide.razorwind.ru/files/bloodpill/bpill_1.0.zip Blood Pill v1.00]
- [http://omnicide.razorwind.ru/files/bloodpill/bpill_0.9.zip Blood Pill v0.9]
==See also==
Category:Tools NOTOC