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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.

Runtiles v1.1 ;)

Make a pcx image which has all your fartile palette colors (refer to 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:

@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!

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

@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!

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.

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