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Title: TTG cards.dat File Format
Post by: TomT64 on 2004-11-15 00:03:01

Would anyone be so kind as to help me figure out the cards.dat file format, or let me have all the card graphics from TTG (minus the numbers on top)?

Title: TTG cards.dat File Format
Post by: Qhimm on 2004-11-15 05:26:13

Sorry, but I painstakingly reworked those graphics by hand, and if I wanted them to be freely available I would've stored them as jpeg files instead of inventing a whole new archive format. ;)

Title: TTG cards.dat File Format
Post by: TomT64 on 2004-11-15 06:32:24

Guess I'll have to do that too then.

Title: TTG cards.dat File Format
Post by: mirex on 2004-11-15 07:53:07

Hehe maybe I could try to get the images .. if i had some free time :) Looks like 2bits per pixel images.

Title: TTG cards.dat File Format
Post by: Alhexx on 2004-11-15 19:09:24

You guys really want to go the hard way, hm? :D
Life could be so easy:
Just get "Eight", open one of those FF8 archives (sorry, don't remember which one), open that cards texture and simply export them to .bmp....

That's the way I did it when creating the cards for TTP.

 - Alhexx

 - edit -
I remember - they were named "mc00" - "mc09"
However, I cannot upload them, because:
1. Copyright ....
2. They're 650KB in size - that's pretty much for my 56K connnection :P

Title: TTG cards.dat File Format
Post by: TomT64 on 2004-11-16 06:47:27

I've already gotten that far Alhexx, but thanks.  I can't seem to find the card borders or backgrounds though.

EDIT: oh and mirex, thanks for the 2 bits per pixel bit, but where does that start in the file, and where does it end?

Title: TTG cards.dat File Format
Post by: mirex on 2004-11-16 07:00:09

TomT64: No idea .. it was just a wild guess when looking at the "cards.dat". Im gonna look into ff8's archives, why to try hard way when all the data can be found inside ?

What do you mean by "backgrounds" ?

Title: TTG cards.dat File Format
Post by: TomT64 on 2004-11-16 07:02:29

I mean the red and blue gradients indicating the player who owns said card

Title: TTG cards.dat File Format
Post by: Alhexx on 2004-11-17 21:04:53

Quote from: Qhimm

Sorry, but I painstakingly reworked those graphics by hand, ...

Ring any bells?  :P

 - Alhexx

Title: TTG cards.dat File Format
Post by: TomT64 on 2004-11-17 22:34:07

Yeah.  I'm doing that too now...

Preliminary results of my own meddling with Eight and some graphics manipulation:

http://www.tomt64.com/ffcard.png

Title: TTG cards.dat File Format
Post by: mirex on 2004-11-20 12:49:34

Ehm I looked at it, and yes you can extract many cards from archive menu.fi, they are cards without borders .... you can find there all the card graphic from the game.

Title: TTG cards.dat File Format
Post by: Alhexx on 2004-11-21 11:39:33

mirex: That's exactly what I was talking about...

 - Alhexx

Title: TTG cards.dat File Format
Post by: TomT64 on 2004-11-21 20:06:09

Already way past that.  I have all the cards and their borders.  I just need to throw in some good images of the numbers and elemental images and I've got it.