misc.

README.md

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+# PalMod (for Land Maker)
+forked because the original maintainer doesn't want to expand scope outside fighting games (understandably)
+
+previews were previously handled by 'imgdat,' a non-modular binary format with poor compression that depended on one person with private scripts.
+since it'd be pointless without previews, y stripped that out. we now load .RAW or indexed .PNG previews from a "Previews/" folder in the same directory.  
+`Previews/Section/Game-unit-0x00-imgid-0x00-H-0-W-0.png`
+
+probably not maintained(?)
+
+
+original readme:
+
+---
+
 # PalMod
 Palette-editing software for classic fighting games, mostly centered around Capcom games.
 

palmod/PreviewGen/renamePreviews.py

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 		print("failed to match imgid for file ", f,"(parsed img key '",img_k,"')")
 
 	# GAME-unit-0xUU-imgid-0xII-W-#-H-#-compF-#
+	# compF is probably compression format, but we're incompatible with it
+	# we do not handle rle nonsense because we just load pngs
+	# y is 9, so let's set that (bad) ww
 	newName = game+'-unit-'+unit_id+'-imgid-'+img_id+'-W-'+width+'-H-'+height+'-compF-9'
 	print(newName)