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 .CON to .BMP Converter 
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Remember the olden days back when every scene was a Base.rte edit full of .CON, or "contour" files? Well, now you can relive them!
...with some editing.
Just choose all the files you want to convert and drag them onto this program's icon all at once. It will prompt you for a few things and spit out a brand-new terrain bitmap file in the proper palette, ready to be used on any scene.
If anybody wants to make a tutorial or anything, go ahead. I seriously doubt it's going to get a lot of use, but whatever.
Thanks to Data for a bit of debugging help. If I'm forgetting somebody else, let me know.


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Tue Jun 02, 2009 5:19 am
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Woohoo! Now we can finally convert those pesky old scenes! Thank you!

EDIT: Wow, this is cool, just converted Tomato. Awesome.

EDIT: If anybody wants it, I also converted the Bunker Modules and stuff pixel by pixel too, so It's complete.

And the .inis.


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Fri Jun 05, 2009 1:03 am
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Ok.
Now we can convert Desert Strike now like how everyone wants to.


Fri Jun 05, 2009 1:59 am
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Yes! i had tomato but i lost it somewere, but now i have it again.


Fri Jun 05, 2009 8:17 am
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I feel like a noob. I joined in B13...

What is a .con? Does it use Vector graphics because If so, I'd like to use both this AND whatever the original contour editor instead of ms paint, so that if a map doesn't play right I can just re-size it.


Could you please explain, or give a link to an older topic?


Sat Jun 06, 2009 3:39 am
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A .con (contour) file was what described the terrain of an old map. There's still a stickied topic somewhere here for a converter that turns bitmaps into contours, which was by Data. A contour file basically just states the height of the terrain for every single pixel on the X-axis. So for instance, a contour file would, if read by my program, state: "1800,1800,1804,1809,1815" and so on. This goes on for however wide the map is. If it is 5000 pixels wide, there are 5000 numbers. What this program does is take said numbers, draw terrain out of them, and convert them to palette so you can use it in current builds of CC.
So, simply put, no, they're not vector graphics.


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Miles_T3hR4t wrote:
I feel like a noob. I joined in B13...


Ehh, sorry but contour files were used during b13 too. Anyways, thanks for the tool TLB!


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