Blood Pill

Revision as of 09:55, 22 November 2012

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 into readable format all filetypes used in the game: 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 .bat files in samples/ folder, covering most useful stuff:

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 localization.
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 bat files copy them to directory that contains bpill.exe (pill.big should be there too).