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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: BlOB's and IFF sources
Keywords: Argh, BOB's, BlOB's
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Date: 27 Jul 88 17:26:18 GMT
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In article <899@lakesys.UUCP> joe@lakesys.UUCP (Joe Pantuso) writes:
> I'm looking for a way to take an iff file like a "brush" from DPaint 
> and make it into a BlOB type file.  I would also settle for a decent 
> BlOB/sprite editor.
>-Joe

There are two files on the IFF disk (Fish disk #64, or $20 to CATS for the
complete uptodate stuff) one in other.files/zapicon and the other is
EXECUTEABLE/ILBMDump. Zapicon will take a Dpaint brush and make an Icon
out of it, this can be made into a WorkBenchObject type thingy by using
Icon2C on the resulting icon. ILBMDump will dump the brush a set of 
u_short arrays that contain the image information for the brush. You will
of course have to fill in the various fields in the appropriate GELS 
structure (Bob or VSprite). 


--Chuck McManis
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