I think there's an error with the importation of several file formats.
First, fonts can't be loaded directly from a file. DSB complains that the file simply can't be found. They have to be imported into the 'graphics.dsb' file through a utility like Allegro's Grabber - and even that doesn't fully work. The font loads and can be used the first time correctly, but since DSB rebuilds the 'graphics.dsb' file each time (I think it does - I didn't test to see if setting 'compile=0' works), it builds it again without the font, so subsequent loads don't work.
The same is true for Mod music files. Midis can't be used at all, though neither of these is a huge deal (at least, not to me; WAVs and MP3s load directly from files just fine, though if people are concerned with file sizes, this could potentially be a problem).
And before you ask - I'm fairly certain the file formats are correct, since they do load from '*.dat' files just fine (at least, the first time unless I put them in the 'base\graphics.dat', where they always work). I can't quite remember exactly how I came up with the font file - I used a utility to convert a TTF (it was either FontEd or TTF2PCX) with the character range of 0x0020 to 0x005B (I used that range because that's what SCROLLFONT uses, and I wanted to be sure that wasn't the issue).
(fixed) Graphics.dsb and file importing
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Graphics.dsb and file importing
Ah, right. I had forgotten to fix that when I changed DSB to automatically compile a graphics DSB. I'll fix this.Remy wrote:First, fonts can't be loaded directly from a file. DSB complains that the file simply can't be found. They have to be imported into the 'graphics.dsb' file through a utility like Allegro's Grabber - and even that doesn't fully work.
It can't find MODs because .mod is not one of the file extensions DSB searches-- I can easily add this.Remy wrote:The same is true for Mod music files. Midis can't be used at all
What do you mean by Midis can't be used at all? I can add .mid to the searched extensions, too-- if there are problems beyond that, I think it's a problem between FMOD and the individual Midi file, as the game ending screen music is a Midi and it plays fine.
Yeah, this one was my mistake.Remy wrote:I'm fairly certain the file formats are correct
Any 256-color PCX image should be fine.