Gregory's Serverah-ha. look at this. both res_ids are identical, but one is only 16 bytes, uncompressed. This is a res_id for a texture.
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 so they have two copies of the resource in the file, but one of them has different FLAGS, which presumably indicates "hey this is the metadata", which has stuff like the texture format and image size. both of them. I'm gonna have to modify the extractor I'm working on to do two searches and find the CFLAGS=64 version, get the metadata, then extract the other one separately. the datafile has 1938 matches for "CFLAGS 64", so... does this game have 1938 separate textures? maybe! fun fact: just about every other game and file format in the world solves this complex problem by JUST PUTTING A FUCKING HEADER IN THE FILE WHAT ARE YOU DOING okay having written an extractor for that format, I move onto the next format: GX_TF_RGBA8. OH GOD NOPE. So a 4x4 RGB8 chunk looks like this: ARARARAR ARARARAR my favorite part is that nintendo literally calls this RGBA when it's not in RGBA order. re-parsed. OH GOD THEY CHANGED THE BLOCK SIZE FOR GREYSCALE IMAGES NINTENDO IS JAPANESE FOR "I HATE THE VERY IDEA FOR MAKING ANY FUCKING SENSE" oh wow. I parsed IA8 correctly on the first try! (it is, of course, in AI byte-order) the final format I need to implement is GX_TF_CMPR, which is a variant of DXT1 texture compression, in 8x8 blocks. JUST KIDDING! it's implemented as four 4x4 sub-blocks. so for each subblock, there's 64 bits. so the two numbers are compared, and either way, c0 and c1 are RGB 5:6:5 colors. if c0 is bigger than c1, then: but if c1 is bigger than c0, then: so now you have 4 colors, c0 through c3. The final 32 bits of the subblock is an index into this palette, with two bits per pixel. so yeah. dxt1 works by having you define two colors, they get an extra bit of metadata by making the order of the colors important, then generate 2 more colors based on those colors + metadata. ugh it turns out it's hard to decode 0-width fonts, thanks to divisions. I'm now mass-converting all the textures. |
and 16 bytes is exactly the same size as the WiiTextureHeader structure used by the engine!