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This conversion program represents a great deal of effort on the part of
Black Belt Systems and it's employees. Much of this effort has gone into
researching the many different file formats that are supported. Despite
our best efforts, it is sometimes difficult or impossible to obtain
complete and detailed information on these formats and we rely on a few
example pictures to more or less guess what the layout is.
To help you aid us in our efforts, please use the following guidelines
if you find a new format that we don't as yet support, or if you find
that an image in one of the supported formats does not convert correctly.
1. Write a brief note describing the following:
- what format the image is supposed to be in
- the size (width and height) of the image if known
- the color resolution (256 color, 24 bit color) if known
- how the image was produced (Deluxe Paint, Sculpt 3D etc.)
- what the image is supposed to look like
2. If you have the ability to create images in the format in question
(i.e. you own the program that creates the image), then you can
help us even more by creating an image that is easily described.
It should contain a chunk of pure red, green and blue and ideally
would contain some text to help us get the correct orientation.
Make sure that you describe the image well enough so that we know
which chunk is red, which is green and which is blue, and if you
can't create text, at least make sure that we can easily identify
the correct vertical and horizontal orientation.
3. Put the image and your note into a .lzh type of arc and upload it
to our BBS. You will be notified if and when we upgrade convert to
correctly handle your format.
Ray traced images in particular can be quite deceptive. Swapping the red,
green and blue components of these types of images frequently yields
images that look quite acceptable in their own right (i.e. a red, a green
and a blue sphere will yield a blue, a green and a red sphere). It
is also quite possible that a ray traced image will look just as impressive
upside down or flipped left to right. We're not saying that you shouldn't
send us these, but if you do, then you should adequately describe them.
Included in this distribution is a simple four color IFF showing the ideal
example picture. It's name is "NewFormat.pic". Notice that there is enough
information in the picture to correctly identify the orientation, and the
correct color scheme.
Happy converting!
Pete Patterson