Texture format
Engine supports maximum size of 256x256 pixels. On Windows textures use .pc extension, on Dreamcast they use .DC extension, and on Playstation2 they use .ps2 extension
| Offset | Size | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 0x0 | 0x4 | Magic, T54 4D 21 1A (TM!\x1A)
|
| 0x4 | 0x2 | version, number 2-5 |
| 0x6 | 0x2 | width |
| 0x8 | 0x2 | height |
| 0xA | 0x2 | first pixel |
| 0xC | ?? | Compressed data, until EOF |
- compressed image data starts at 0xA, see pc_unpack.py for implementation details
Version 2 (PS2)
- Paletted image. Instead of first uncompressed pixel at 0xA it have short with number of paletted colours, than list of colours (argb, 4 bytes per colour), and uncompressed paletted image (1 byte per pixel)
Version 3 (PC)
- Each pixel is written on 2 bytes, little endian, after converting to big endian the algorithm looks like this:
- If the 15th bit is 1, then stream data as long as each compressed pixel 15th bit is set
- Else
- If 14th bit is set copy previously unpacked data
- bits 11-13 - number of pixels to repeat - 2, so if this number is set to 7, then repeat 9 pixels, minimum 2 pixels
- bits 0-10 - offset - back head for copying that many pixels
- else - add transparent pixels
- bits 0-13 - how many transparent pixels to add
- If 14th bit is set copy previously unpacked data
- Else
00 00marks the end of compressed data
Version 4 (DC)
- Same as version 3, but the resulting files are swizzled for Dreamcast GPU, so untwiddling is needed
Version 5 (PS2)
- Same as version 3, with red and blue channels swapped
Unpacked image data (versions 3-5)
Uncompressed image data uses 2 bytes for each pixel, in A1 R5 G5 B5 format. In some places game uses additional file with greyscale alpha channel to compensate for 1bit alpha (5 bits instead of 1).