I finally made some finishing touches on IronTBL, the TBL to TXT converter, so I decided to release it as version 1.0.
Not much has changed since the last release (apart from some logging improvements), it mostly has some external integrations: comes with ImHex pattern language definitions and yazi integration, and it can now generate shell completions.
IronTBL is available on GitHub.
IronGRP is a GRP to PNG converter for WarCraft I, WarCraft II and StarCraft.
IronGRP version 0.5 was just released with the following features:
IronGRP is available on GitHub.
After creating palpngrs (GitHub) out of code from IronGRP, I decided to create a little utility that can convert between Palettized images and PNGs. I called it IronImage.
It can convert between PNGs and Palettized images from WarCraft I and WarCraft II. It can also convert between PNGs and the cursor format of WarCraft I and WarCraft II (which has the identical format to Palettized images, but with two extra bytes in the header — one for the x-hotspot and one for the y-hotspot).
The code is available at GitHub.
I would like to add support for PCX images, which are used in StarCraft. Image support in palpngrs is provided by image-rs, and there seems to be an experimental image-rs module, image-extras where PCX support is being considered (see discussion here). However, it does not yet seem to be in a stable state, and GIMP supports the PCX format anyway. I will probably revisit PCX support at a later time. For now, IMG and Cursor support will have to do.