Editing Blood Pill

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[[File:Bloodpill.png|thumb|right|400px]]
Blood Pill - a set of tools to manipulate with .BIG files. It can be used to view the data stored in '''pill.big''' - resources file of Blood Omen.

Blood Pill is able to decode all filetypes used in the game into readable/listenable form: speech sound, tile, sprite, tim graphich and more. Only Blood Omen .BIG files are supported.

===Features===

* Packing/Unpacking of .BIG files for PC and PSX versions of BO
* TIM <-> TGA autoconversion during packing and unpacking
* RAW ADPCMWAV/OGG autoconversion during packing and unpacking
* Unpacking sprites (enemies and objects) to separate TGA pictures
* Unpacking tiles (level textures) to TGA
* Unpacking the multiobject files ('merged' files that is used on some entries in BO)
* .JAM video to .TGA decoding
* Decoding VAG files to WAV PCM/OGG sounds
* Decoding levels to TGA images (with optional developer info shown)
* Patching .big files
* Providing support for Blood Omnicide installation

===Usage===

Blood Pill is a commandline utility. To get available command list, execute it without any parms. Also there is some sample batch scripts in samples/ folder, covering most useful stuff:

Sample batch scripts:

* '''extract_file.bat''' : unpacks one file from pill.big.
* '''list.bat''' : create a listing file from pill.big
* '''unpack.bat''' : unpack pill.big with all conversions enabled.
* '''unpack_raw.bat''' : unpack pill.big with pure filetypes (no conversions).
* '''unpack_fortranslating.bat''' : unpack with TIM->TGA and ADPCM->WAV conversion which is useful for making your own BO PC translation.
* '''unpack_oggsounds.bat''' : unpack pill.big with all conversions and sound files being converted to Ogg Vorbis.
* '''pack.bat''' : create a new pill2.big based on 'bigfile' folder (converts back all tga and wav).
* '''tga2tim(test.tga).bat''' : TGA->TIM conversion
* '''tim2tga(test.tim).bat''' : TIM->TGA conversion
* '''tim2tga(test.tim)_16to24.bat''' : TIM->TGA conversion with 16->24 bits conversion enabled

To use sample batch files. copy them to directory that contains bpill.exe (pill.big should be there too).

==Gallery==
====Unpacked sprites and tiles====
<gallery>
File:bloodpilltiles.jpg
File:bloodpillsprites.jpg
File:bloodpillsprites2.jpg
</gallery>

====JAM decoded frames====
<gallery>
File:jam1.png
File:jam2.png
File:jam3.png
File:jam4.png
File:jam5.png
File:jam6.png
</gallery>

====Blood Omen maps converted to TGA====
{|
| valign=top align=center | [[File:bomap1.jpg|300px|link=http://omnicide.legacy-of-kain.ru/w/images/static/Bomap1.jpg]]
| valign=top align=center | [[File:bomap2.jpg|198px|link=http://omnicide.legacy-of-kain.ru/w/images/static/Bomap2.jpg]]
| valign=top align=center | [[File:bomap3.jpg|238px|link=http://omnicide.legacy-of-kain.ru/w/images/static/Bomap3.jpg]]
| valign=top align=center | [[File:bomap4.jpg|300px|link=http://omnicide.legacy-of-kain.ru/w/images/static/Bomap4.jpg]]
|-
| valign=top align=center | [[File:bomap5.jpg|227px|link=http://omnicide.legacy-of-kain.ru/w/images/static/Bomap5.jpg]]
| valign=top align=center | [[File:bomap6.jpg|129px|link=http://omnicide.legacy-of-kain.ru/w/images/static/Bomap6.jpg]]
| valign=top align=center | [[File:bomap7.jpg|300px|link=http://omnicide.legacy-of-kain.ru/w/images/static/Bomap7.jpg]]
| valign=top align=center | [[File:bomap8.jpg|300px|link=http://omnicide.legacy-of-kain.ru/w/images/static/Bomap8.jpg]]
|}
==Download==
* [https://github.com/paulvortex/BloodPill GitHub repository]
* [http://omnicide.legacy-of-kain.ru/files/bloodpill/bpill_1.01.zip Blood Pill v1.01]
* [http://omnicide.legacy-of-kain.ru/files/bloodpill/bpill_1.0.zip Blood Pill v1.00]
* [http://omnicide.legacy-of-kain.ru/files/bloodpill/bpill_0.9.zip Blood Pill v0.9]

==See also==
* [[Blood Omen file formats]]

[[Category:Tools]]
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