Next Generation SHP Viewer

[MarkSheppard]

I think I've made a semi breakthrough; I was stuck on trying to recompile SPCAMO stock SHP Icon111 from WW2; and I tried some other SHP files and they showed correctly:



Likewise, some old Warhammer 40K SHPs partially show up:



With this (helped by the very useful cross overlay) I think what's happening is that I've got the SHP compression code now mostly correct...

BUT somewhere along the way, the SHP header stuff is not being passed along correctly; and the SHP header stuff plays a big important part in the SHP file compression procedure; because it defines a bounding box of pixels that we compress and discard the rest (to save pixel space)

[MarkSheppard]

So, I --THINK-- I may have gotten it to work; but it's late at night and I don't feel like editing game files; but I've validated the files in Fred's SHPEd afterwards; so they load in that at least.

Here's v0.82; once again, SPCAMO is the password to let me upload it.

big glaring warning

this is currently not validated completely; so don't use it for heavy file editing [i.e. replacing 100 icons etc] just yet.

[MarkSheppard]

now that I can actually save SHPs; I'm doing some more case testing -- and I need to make some changes to the icon replacement code -- it works fine if the icon is the same size as the one being replaced; but looks horrible if there's a size disparity between the new/old icons.

To fix this, here's a quick replacement; as once again SPCAMO is password.