Posts Tagged ‘resource type’

Okay gang. I fixed the file filtering that was going on and added a few other goodies. You can great the 2.1 version or there’s a patch there that will update 2.0 to 2.1 if you’re so inclined. Here’s a rundown of what’s changed:

Added

+Attribute column to file list

+HTML Viewer for web pages

+FAM viewer for family files

+Support for more image types (JPG, TGA)

+Simple MP3 player for MP3 files (ugly but works)

+File list is now sorted by clicking on the column header

+Rotation Control for viewing objects

+EXPi (Exported Family Info) resoure type

+uChr (Bodystring Resource) resource type

Fixed

!Image export available for SPR and IFF files

Changed

*All file types are shown for selection

*Delete now disabled if no file selected

*0 byte files are not displayed in view

Removed

-Two extra columns (Modified and Attributes) from Far file lists

Enjoy!

Greets. After a full day of getting SimExplorer ready, unfortunately I just won’t make it before the new year (MST that is). Just too many things to do and not enough time (the story of my life). However it’ll be along shortly along with blueprint. In the meantime, here’s some animated eye-candy of the new version (SimExplorer that is). The program has two modes for viewing IFF files. Simple and Advanced (the animation toggles between the two). In simple mode, you basically get a similar display to what is already in the current version (however it’s been updated to allow you to browse multiple objects and graphical states of each object). In advanced mode, well, you get the kitchen sink and more. Every resource type is displayed and most are interpreted for you and displayed in a readable fashion (for example the PALT resources are displayed as a 16×16 grid of colours). I’ll be adding more and more resource types over the next few weeks after the release so eventually all resource types will be viewed in a happy-happy-joy-joy form (rather than a default HEX view that it currently flips to if there’s no special viewer available). In any case, this should be an object hackers dream as you can pick apart IFF files (and others) to your hearts content and maybe discover something hiding in those objects that you never saw before. Click on the image to see the full size version. Oh yeah, happy new year and all that jazz.