Content Provider gtxjoe Posted December 6, 2015 Content Provider Posted December 6, 2015 I am playing around with the pin2dmd.exe command line options. Questions 1) For vPinMame, does vPinMame only these 4 values out of the 16 palette values, indexes 0, 1, 4 and 15? EDIT: It looks like the Stern SAM roms use more is it all 16 color palettes? 2) If I want to manually upload a color palette, is this the proper format for just sending 1 palette? It works, I just want to make sure it is the correct format. I only changed the background, index 0 to Red. pin2dmd /t testpalette.txt where testpalette.txt contains [palettes] npalettes=1 defaultpalette=0 palette0=Default,0xFFFF0000,0xFF7F0000,0xFFFF0000,0xFFFF00FF,0xFF007F7F,0xFF007F00,0xFF00FF00,0xFF00FFFF,0xFF00007F,0xFF7F007F,0xFF0000FF,0xFF3F3F3F,0xFF7F7F7F,0xFF7F7F00,0xFFFFFF00,0xFFFFFFFF 3) For all the palette colors, each color is 4 bytes, 0xAARRGGBB where RR, GG, BB are the RGB values, is the AA value used at all? Thanks
Content Provider lucky1 Posted December 6, 2015 Content Provider Posted December 6, 2015 Hi, 1) You are correct. Official VPinMame only supports 4 colors. SAM PinMame is a non official build and therefore the palettes need to be uploaded by pin2dmd tool. 2) Starting with the vc++ version of pin2dmd.exe there are 2 versions of textfiles implemented. There are sample files on github which should be self explaining. The version you used is uploaded with /t. The second is used with /a (alternative palette) It uses the following format Row 1 ROM identifier (currently not used) Row 2 Number of palettes Row 3 Default Palette Row 4 Persistent Palette (needed for SmartDMD) Row 5 .... Palette Data Use pin2dmd.exe /t ./palettefile.txt with vc++ version instead of pin2dmd.exe /t palettefile.txt which worked for vb6 version. 3) That is correct. Color values are stored in 32bit format and the first byte is not used. Lucky1
zanyt13 Posted December 27, 2015 Posted December 27, 2015 An editor to generate these palett text files would be neat!
Content Provider lucky1 Posted December 27, 2015 Content Provider Posted December 27, 2015 Notepad for the text version. You can use pin2dmd editor from steve to generate .dat palette files.
zanyt13 Posted December 27, 2015 Posted December 27, 2015 Haha...of course good old notepad works, but i wanted it with sliders and stuff, to see the colors instantly! I havet to check Steves editor out!
Content Provider freneticamnesic Posted January 13, 2016 Content Provider Posted January 13, 2016 lucky1 will you enable the rom identifier soon? Right now I'm using this method but have each table in it's own .txt file. I'd like to put them all in one and at least use something similar to the default palette loading like: pin2dmd.exe /t custompalette.txt to load the palette for a specific game. In these palettes on line one it gives an option to change the number of palettes but I'm not 100% sure how to load the non-default palette from that file... pin2dmd.exe /t custompalette.txt 3 to load palette 3... except in a way that works?
Content Provider lucky1 Posted January 13, 2016 Content Provider Posted January 13, 2016 Unfortunatelly the implementation of the ROM identifier is not in my hand since it has to be done by the VPM team. They already have the source to do that. The idea is to put the palette files in a directory structure e.g. /palettes/"game-name"/palettes.dat in the vpm directory. A seperate file for each table is preferred since this files also contains keyframes information etc. If you want to put your palettes in a single textfile, this can already be done by using pin2dmd.exe /t combined with /p for setting the default palette for the game. Lucky1 lucky1 will you enable the rom identifier soon? Right now I'm using this method but have each table in it's own .txt file. I'd like to put them all in one and at least use something similar to the default palette loading like: pin2dmd.exe /t custompalette.txt to load the palette for a specific game. In these palettes on line one it gives an option to change the number of palettes but I'm not 100% sure how to load the non-default palette from that file... pin2dmd.exe /t custompalette.txt 3 to load palette 3... except in a way that works?
Content Provider freneticamnesic Posted January 13, 2016 Content Provider Posted January 13, 2016 So pin2dmd.exe /t custompalette.txt /p 3 to load the 3rd palette from a custom palettes list? Or am I reading that wrong? These would just be 4 color palettes, none have key frame information or anything
Content Provider lucky1 Posted January 13, 2016 Content Provider Posted January 13, 2016 So pin2dmd.exe /t custompalette.txt /p 3 to load the 3rd palette from a custom palettes list? Or am I reading that wrong? These would just be 4 color palettes, none have key frame information or anything only one option per execution. pin2dmd.exe /t custom palette.txt pin2dmd.exe /p 3 palette information is always 16 colors even when you just use 4 (0,1, 4,15 are used then)
Content Provider freneticamnesic Posted January 14, 2016 Content Provider Posted January 14, 2016 Correct. I didn't realize pin2dmd.exe /p 3 used the last loaded palette.txt, I thought it always loaded the default palette! That works just fine then thank you
Content Provider lucky1 Posted January 14, 2016 Content Provider Posted January 14, 2016 Always a pleasure Please share your settings if you found good ones for your tables.
OzStick Posted January 21, 2016 Posted January 21, 2016 Does the text file need to be formatted in a particular way? I'm trying to load a custom palatte file and getting a pop up message saying "File Error" when I try to do the following: pin2dmd.exe /t custpal.txt The file is simply a copy of what gtxjoe shows in Post #1 of this thread. I know I'm doing something wrong, but what??
Content Provider lucky1 Posted January 21, 2016 Content Provider Posted January 21, 2016 Please try pin2dmd.exe /t ./custpal.txt or with full path
OzStick Posted January 22, 2016 Posted January 22, 2016 Please try pin2dmd.exe /t ./custpal.txt or with full path Pretty sure I tried that, but I just dropped a copy of PIN2DMD-master\tools\vc++\Binary\palettes_option_t.txt into my target directory and tested with that using pin2dmd /t ./palettes_option_t.txt and it worked. I even added a 9th palette to it, made that the default and then ran my batch file again and that worked too. I'm a happy camper now.
gStAv Posted January 22, 2016 Posted January 22, 2016 Cool progress. Any news on a solid "original DMD"isch amber color? Would love to have that.
Content Provider comicalman Posted March 27, 2016 Content Provider Posted March 27, 2016 Any news on a solid "original DMD"isch amber color? Just got mine up and running. Is there an amber palette available?
Rappelbox Posted March 27, 2016 Posted March 27, 2016 Is integrated in 2.05 I'll upload another one this evening. Greets, Dom
Content Provider comicalman Posted March 27, 2016 Content Provider Posted March 27, 2016 I havent flashed to latest version yet. Does this mean upgrading to 2.03 or better - the palette will be defaulted to orange\amber? (a good thing IMO).
Rappelbox Posted March 27, 2016 Posted March 27, 2016 No, rgb is still the default palette. But you can change to Amber because it is integrated in both 2.05 firmware and pin2dmd.exe
Content Provider lucky1 Posted March 27, 2016 Content Provider Posted March 27, 2016 You can choose the default palette with pin2dmd.exe and store this setting on a sd-card, or even create a custom palettes.dat and put it on sd-card, if you wish to startup your device with another palette
Content Provider comicalman Posted April 2, 2016 Content Provider Posted April 2, 2016 Unfortunately, I dont see an amber version on my Pin2dmd v2.05. Selecting #8 Gives me a colorized palette. The others are fine. ex: #6 offers various shades of Yellow. ANy ideas???
Content Provider lucky1 Posted April 2, 2016 Content Provider Posted April 2, 2016 I assume you are not using the pin2dmd >= 2.05 firmware on your device. Unfortunately, I dont see an amber version on my Pin2dmd v2.05. Selecting #8 Gives me a colorized palette. The others are fine. ex: #6 offers various shades of Yellow. ANy ideas???
Content Provider comicalman Posted April 3, 2016 Content Provider Posted April 3, 2016 Yes, and am trying to flash it to 2.05 - but am Not able to do so with the the ST-Link Utility (see below). Here is probably why: I was able to get the above pin2dmd.exe working along with the PIN2DMD driver - BEFORE flashing to latest firmware. Now, my system recognizes it as a PIN2DMD device (not ST-Link device). SO, the ST-Link Utility does NOT recognize the device (when I try to connect, I get "No ST-Link detected"). I have tried uninstalling the device AND restoring my system to before I installed PIN2dmd Drivers. Either way, when plugging the board back in, it still thinks of it as PIN2DMD not ST-Link board.... Do I need to get into the registry somewhere to remove PIN2DMD - so that I can properly flash the board?
Content Provider lucky1 Posted April 3, 2016 Content Provider Posted April 3, 2016 For the ST-Link utility you need to connect to the mini usb, just like you did when you flashed with CoIDE. PIN2DMD.EXE and all other applications use the micro USB.
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