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====== Falcon 4 RunTiles ======

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**Falcon 4 RunTiles** by Snake Man

This little package will read your H tiles and generate the smaller tiles for you automatically.

This is a MS-DOS batch file which runs the tiles one by one into the ancient Image Alchemy DOS utility. It then creates M, L and T tiles from the original H tiles for you automatically.

You need to put H tiles into some directory, along with your fartiles palette PCX image. This image could be just basic H tile but with fartile palette and xfartile.pcx filename.

//Please note that you do not need the 4dos.com anymore when running the batch file.//


====== Usage ======

Runtiles v1.1 ;)

Make a pcx image which has all your //fartile// palette colors (refer to [[falcon4:textures|texture tutorial]] for details).

Copy all your new H tiles to some temp directory, then place this runtiles.bat and
the //fartile// palette PCX file to the same dir. Rename the fartile PCX file for "**xfartile.pcx**" filename.

Then run "runtiles.bat" from your DOS screen and sit back. if all goes well, after the process you should have the original H tiles and also M, L and T tiles, where T tiles use the color palette from xfartile.pcx image.

**runtiles.bat**:

<code dos>
@echo off
md mtiles
md ltiles
md ttiles
for %%x in (h*.pcx) do alchemy ---f -p -Xb64 -Yb64 %%x mtiles\%%x
for %%x in (h*.pcx) do alchemy ---f -p -Xb32 -Yb32 %%x ltiles\%%x
for %%x in (h*.pcx) do alchemy -f xfartile.pcx -p -Xb16 -Yb16 %%x ttiles\%%x
cd mtiles
ren h*.pcx m*.pcx
move m*.pcx ..
cd ../ltiles
ren h*.pcx l*.pcx
move l*.pcx ..
cd ../ttiles
ren h*.pcx t*.pcx
move t*.pcx ..
cd ..
rd mtiles
rd ltiles
rd ttiles
echo done!
</code>


====== 512 Resolution ======

Here is the example runtiles with larger (normal for nowadays?) 512 resolution tile support added.

<code dos>
@echo off
md htiles
md mtiles
md ltiles
md ttiles
echo creating 512 H tiles...
for %%x in (h*.pcx) do alchemy -Q ---f -p -Xb512 -Yb512 %%x htiles\%%x >nul
echo creating 256 M tiles...
for %%x in (h*.pcx) do alchemy -Q ---f -p -Xb256 -Yb256 %%x mtiles\%%x >nul
echo creating 128 L tiles...
for %%x in (h*.pcx) do alchemy -Q ---f -p -Xb128 -Yb128 %%x ltiles\%%x >nul
echo creating 16 T tiles...
for %%x in (h*.pcx) do alchemy -Q -f xfartile.pcx -p -Xb16 -Yb16 %%x ttiles\%%x >nul
cd htiles
move h*.pcx ..    >nul
cd ../mtiles
ren h*.pcx m*.pcx >nul
move m*.pcx ..    >nul
cd ../ltiles
ren h*.pcx l*.pcx >nul
move l*.pcx ..    >nul
cd ../ttiles
ren h*.pcx t*.pcx >nul
move t*.pcx ..    >nul
cd ..
rd htiles
rd mtiles
rd ltiles
rd ttiles
echo done!
</code>


====== Notes ======

Download Runtiles.v1.1.rar or Runtiles_for_512.rar packages. //These archives still contain the OLD 4dos.com batch files, just use the above code examples to create the batch files.//

Download from Falcon.4.0.Batch.Files.And.Scripts.2024-03-19/ torrent magnet:
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