.WSA File Format Maker?

[Allen508]

I know that they are used animation sequences in Dune 2 and C&Cs. XCC can read but not write this format.  Dose any one know of something that can compile this format?

[FunkyFr3sh]

Red Horizon does that, i used to make wsa files for miniTD

[Allen508]

Link or is it pay?

[Nyerguds]

You'd think people would start knowing this by now...

 

http://nyerguds.arsaneus-design.com/tools/

 

Check the redhorizon/ folder.

 

It also includes my own tool to make better stretch tables for the generated WSA files (wsa-ccpalgenerator.rar), since those generated by Red Horizons are kinda crappy. Check the included manual for more info. Do note I made that tool for C&C1, and the docs kinda reflect that. No idea what the stretch tables are called in RA1.

 

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The official release site of the Red Horizon Utilities is here:

http://www.ultraq.net.nz/redhorizon/downloads/

[Allen508]

Okay I downloaded both but how do I used redhorizon?

[Allen508]

All redhorizon gave me is a bunch of .bats that I though were drop and drag to use but if I try that I get errors....

[FunkyFr3sh]

no its not that easy you gotta fire up command prompt and enter the file name then amount of frames framerate loop and all that stuff

[Allen508]

command prompt.... The one think I have never been able to find out how to do...

 

So how dose one use command prompt?

[pichorra]

You don't know how to use the command prompt? well... it is a kind weird...

 

Well... let me see if I can make those things easy for you.

 

Create a new folder anywhere.

Extract those tools to that folder

Right click in Start>All Applications>Acessories>Command Prompt, and make a shortcut to desktop.

Right Click on the shortcut that you created, and then go to propieties.

On the ShortCut tab, you will see a blank space "Start In:" with "%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%" (XP). change that to your working directory (like C:\Projects\Mods).

Open it, you will be already inside your working directory. type "dir" (wihout quotes) to see the all files inside it. Note that the .bat tools are listed there too, so you just copy it's name and press ENTER. Note that special options will be required to use'em propiertly.

 

you can read a quickly tutorial to DOS/Windows Command Prompting here.

 

@Tore: The tools buttons is a crap to see under Google Chrome.

[Allen508]

Okay I did that. I get this when I run the PNG2WSACC.bat

 

I know that it is telling me some commands but I fail at entering them.

[FunkyFr3sh]

need to enter: PNG2WSACC.bat 123.png 123.wsa -w:999 -h:999 -n:999 -f:1 -loop

 

while 123.png gets replaced with the files you want to convert, -w is the width of the pictures, -h is the height of the pictures, -n the amount of the pictures, -f is the framerate

 

i think to get a working wsa i chose framerate 1 or 0 and loop also needed to be turned on i think. Could be that i used mpng2shpd2.bat instead of PNG2WSACC .. i also had like 10 failed wsa files that the game couldn't open before i finally found the right settings to make a working wsa

[Nyerguds]

Pssh. lrn2dos, n00b

[Allen508]

I tried but I think something is wrong....

 

[FunkyFr3sh]

what are your pictures named ?

 

lets say they are named allen000.png allen001.png allen002.png etc etc

 

then it needs to look like this:

 

mpng2wsacc.bat allen.png allen.wsa -f:1 -loop

[Allen508]

THIS MAKE NO  :ranting: SINCE!

 

All I want to do is take a RA1 mission selection WSA that are  320 x 200 and 70 frames that I already made into PNGs with XCC mixer and make it back into a WSA.

 

I use "MPNG2WSACC.bat TEST.png TEST.wsa -f:12.5 -loop" I have all TEST000.PNG to TEST069.PNG in the same folder as the MPNG2WSACC.bat but it is not finding the Test pngs.

[Nyerguds]

Hmm, odd. You're sure they're in that folder? :|

 

By the way, personally I've stuck to using the single PNG to WSA one. Can't remember why, but it might be that.

[Allen508]

Yes I'm sure.

 

Using PNG2WSACC.bat and the line is PNG2WSACC.bat TEST.png TEST.wsa -w:320 -h:200 -n:69 -f:12.5 -loop

 

The converter.log show..

14:47:41.375 [main] INFO  SingleFileConverter - Loading input file/s...

14:47:41.406 [main] ERROR ConverterCommandLine - TEST.png

[Allen508]

Okay I changed the line to MPNG2WSACC.bat Test.png Test.wsa -f:12.5 -loop and now I get Conversion not supported. I'm attching the PNGs as well maybe some one that knows how to do this can give it a try.

 

The PNGs are from the msaa.wsa found in the Red Alert 1 Main.mix than general.mix

Test_PNGs.zip

[Nyerguds]

I can't check them here at work, but, make sure the frames don't have an alpha channel. Or are they straight converts from XCC?

[Allen508]

Yes. From XCC by use of Copy as PNG. I changed the name so that it would work with RH since it needs files that don't have a space in between the name  and frame number.

[FunkyFr3sh]

i didn't tested it, so dunno if it works

test.zip

Red_Horizon.zip

[Allen508]

Worked! XD XD XD XD

 

Now I have to ask is it something I did or was my Red Horizon not working right. I had to download your Make wsa and Red Horizon for it to work.

 

As you can see below I got it woking and the old Alled blue changed to GDI gold.

[FunkyFr3sh]

nice, maybe you just had a bad version

[Allen508]

The thing is I thought of that and I tried some of the older Red Horizons as well. None worked that I downloaded.

 

Anyways it working now. I have to recolor all 28 mission selection WSAs. Thankfully all I have do is change the pallet of the first frame of each WSA and mpng2wsacc.bat will recolor the others for 69 for me.

[Nyerguds]

If you adjust the palette you need to remake the stretch tables too, though.