Grfcodec (1) Linux Manual Page

NAME

GRFCodec – A tool to convert a GRF file into graphics files and meta data, and vice versa.

grfcodec [-sv ] [-d | e ] [options] GRF-file [Directory]

<GRF-File> denotes the .GRF file you want to work on, e.g. TRG1.GRF

<Directory> is where the individual sprites should be saved. If omitted, they will default to a subdirectory called sprites/.

–: Display the help message.
-e: Encode a GRF file. The GRF-file to pass is the file where to encode to. The source of the GRF-file, i.e. the .nfo, will be looked for in sprites/GRF-file.nfo All PCX files will be searched for relative from the location of the GRF-file.
-d: Decode a GRF file. The GRF-file to pass is the file to decode. The result will be in sprites/GRF-file.nfo and sprites/GRF-file.pcx
-s: Silences the progress output in interactive mode
-v: Display the version.

Options for decoding:

-w num

Write PCX files with the given width (default 800, minimum 16)

-h num

Split PCX files when they reach this height (default no limit, minimum 16)

-b num

Organize sprites in boxes of this size (default 16)

-p pal

Use this palette instead of the default. See –p ? for a list.

-t

Disable decoding of plain text characters as strings.

-x

Disable production of unquoted escape sequences.

-xx

Disable production of both quoted and unquoted escape sequences.

This has the side effect of producing a version 6 .nfo, instead of a version 7 .nfo.

-X

List sprite numbers in the PCX file in hex.

Options for encoding:

Options for both encoding and decoding:

-m num

Apply colour translation to all sprites except character-glyphs.

-M num

Apply colour translation to all sprites.

If both of these are specified, only the last is obeyed. –m ? or –M ? for a list of colour translations.