OK, for anyone interested ..
here is a modified version of a shell script (incl CygWin) that will output the Dawnbringer16 as VDI color palette. NOTE that it only generates the number of colors found in the GiMP palette file (.gpl), not the full 256, and it does not remap them to the AtariST color order either.
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#!/bin/sh
BN=`pwd`
BN=`basename "$BN"`
if [ "$1" = "" -o "$1" = "--help" ]; then
echo "palette-gpl2vdi.pal"
echo "GiMP palette (.gpl) to Atari ST, Falcon, ARAnyM VDI color palette (.pal)"
echo "usage: palette-gpl2vdi.pal.sh [--help]|[palette.gpl]"
echo "notes: the following will be over written."
echo " './$BN-dec-24-space.txt' "
echo " './$BN.vdi.colors.txt' "
echo " './$BN.vdi.hex.pal' "
echo " './$BN.vdi.color.pal' "
echo "naming convention: "
echo " '\$BN uses the basename of the current directory'"
exit 0
fi
if [ ! -f "./$1" ]; then
echo "Error: not found: './$1'"
exit 1
fi
if [ ! "`head -n 1 "$1"`" = "GIMP Palette" ]; then
echo "Error: not a GiMP Palette: './$1'"
exit 2
fi
grep -E "^[\ 0-9]" "$1" | cut --output-delimiter=, --characters=1-3,5-7,9-11 | tr -d \ | tr , \ > "${BN}-dec-24-space.txt"
RD=`dirname $0`
CN=`grep -c -E "^[0-9]" "./${BN}-dec-24-space.txt"`
printf "" > "./${BN}.vdi.${CN}colors.txt"
printf "" > "./${BN}.vdi.hex.${CN}colors.txt"
printf "" > "./${BN}.vdi.${CN}colors.pal"
printf '#!/bin/sh\nPF=`which printf`\n$PF "' > "./${BN}.vdi.printf.${CN}colors.sh"
for I in `seq 1 $CN`; do
"$RD/as-channel-2-VDI.sh" `cat "./${BN}-dec-24-space.txt" | head -n $I | tail -n 1` >> "./${BN}.vdi.${CN}colors.txt"
"$RD/as-VDI-dec-2-hex.sh" `cat "./${BN}.vdi.${CN}colors.txt" | head -n $I | tail -n 1` >> "./${BN}.vdi.hex.${CN}colors.txt"
for J in `cat ./${BN}.vdi.hex.${CN}colors.txt | head -n $I | tail -n 1`; do
M="\x`echo "$J" | cut -c 1-2`"
N="\x`echo "$J" | cut -c 3-4`"
printf "$M$N" >> "./${BN}.vdi.printf.${CN}colors.sh"
done
done
printf "\" > \"./${BN}.vdi.${CN}colors.pal\"\n" >> "./${BN}.vdi.printf.${CN}colors.sh"
chmod 0777 "./${BN}.vdi.printf.${CN}colors.sh"
"./${BN}.vdi.printf.${CN}colors.sh"
echo "$CN colors written to '${BN}.vdi.${CN}colors.pal'"
unset CN
unset RD
unset BN
exit 0
I did it this this way, because people might be interested in what the VDI values (0-1000 dec & hex) are, as well as the actual binary output. NOTE place '
palette-gpl2vdi.pal.sh' in the same directory as '
as-channel-2-VDI.sh' and '
as-VDI-dec-2-hex.sh' (from
here) and make them executable (chmod a+x ...).
FYI: Using Grafx2
load the 'palette-common.gif' (reference on the page in the above post), then loading in the Dawnbringer16 JASC-PAL file from programmers-palettes, here is what you get:
At least now
Arne16v20 (AndroidArts.com) and Dawnbringer16 can be visually remapped to the alternate/common NVDI color palette, and a proper .PAL file produced
BTW: I added Arne16v20 (AndroidArts.com) to the
programmers-palettes yesterday, using it to develop the VDI assist scripts, later today after I have created a remapped VDI color palette, and various palette-as-image, I will upload the Dawnbringer16 set.
Cheers
Paul
