Need a little help to generate .exe file

[Zimmlock]

At last i had the courage to start some grafix work. Its something i would like to do more often, but need practice first.
Here i present my first modification work, I removed the black 'i dont know what' on the fountain.
Now i want to create a selve extracting EXE file, i use the GRF Wizzard, something happen but can't find the generated .EXE file. Have read all manuals and tryed it many times without succes.
Have tryed in DOS

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grfdiff -x trg1.bak trg1.grf -o Fountain_DOS.exe

without any result
Need some help.

[Hyronymus]

Try running Grfwizard without the option 'Answer yes to all questions'. What does the DOS-window in which Grfwizard runs tells you?

[Rob]

You need to come up with a DOS name with 8 or less letters.

Also it is "required" do provide the spritenumber involved.
I know that the example in grftut.txt doesn't provide that aswell, but if you don't tell the program what
sprites it should include, it will include all the changed sprites in trg1.grf, including those that you did install from other excecute files.

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grfdiff -l 1455 -x -y trg1.bak trg1.grf -o fnt_dos.exe

[Zimmlock]

Try running Grfwizard without the option 'Answer yes to all questions'. What does the DOS-window in which Grfwizard runs tells you?

I did what you recommended, but it made no diffrence. What the DOS-win screen tells me? I cant read it, it flashes no and of the screen.

You need to come up with a DOS name with 8 or less letters.
Also it is "required" do provide the spritenumber involved.
I know that the example in grftut.txt doesn't provide that aswell, but if you don't tell the program what
sprites it should include, it will include all the changed sprites in trg1.grf, including those that you did install from other excecute files.

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grfdiff -l 1455 -x -y trg1.bak trg1.grf -o fnt_dos.exe

I forgot this with a maximum of 8 letters, didnt use DOS for a loooong time. And i tryed it in real DOS-mode, but the program is not a pure DOS prorgam but a MS-DOS program.
I geuss it worked, i enterd you code line but i cant find the .exe or GRD file it should have produced?!?
I must be making some mistake. The final screen was the one shown below.
So fare thx for help

[ChrisCF]

but the program is not a pure DOS prorgam but a MS-DOS program.

Er, say what?

[Oracle]

but the program is not a pure DOS prorgam but a MS-DOS program.

Er, say what?

He means it's a Windows console program, not a DOS program .

[Patchman]

Zimmlock, your screenshot is showing the help display of grfmerge, which means that it doesn't understand the commands you're giving it.

This either means that you have a very old version of grfmerge (get the latest grfcodec suite to be sure), or you're mistyping it, or something else. I ran it with those parameters you gave it, and it worked fine here, so I'm guessing that you must have an old version.

[PS, grfmerge is not limited to 8.3 DOS names, it deals very well with long filenames too.]

[Zimmlock]

Zimmlock, your screenshot is showing the help display of grfmerge, which means that it doesn't understand the commands you're giving it.

This either means that you have a very old version of grfmerge (get the latest grfcodec suite to be sure), or you're mistyping it, or something else. I ran it with those parameters you gave it, and it worked fine here, so I'm guessing that you must have an old version.

[PS, grfmerge is not limited to 8.3 DOS names, it deals very well with long filenames too.]

BINGO, where would i be without you nice people
The programs worked after i downloaded and installed the latest version of GRFcodec, my old one was a version of 2001!!
Thank you all verry much for the help.

And here i present my verry first modification of a sprite.
Zimmlock

[Zimmlock]

Don't know, there must be a buck somewhere.

The GRF-Wizard works, it created twice a .exe and an undo.exe file. But now it refuses to create an undo.exe file. It creats the .exe file well.
The message below keeps popping up. I have installed the latest run time library and re installed the wizard. No chance......

What's going on?

[Szappy]

The problem is that "grfwizard" creates a too long command line that dos cannot process. I tried to tell this to Andrex, but he seems to be preoccupied with various ttdx configurators and such...

moderator: ttdpatch starters aren't made by Andrex

[Zimmlock]

So what does it mean? GRF-Wizard isn't fully developed?
Is there a command line i can put what creats a undo.exe file with the sprits i desire?

[Szappy]

There should be one, but I'm not into it _that_ much.
But: there is a workaround to that: shorten the command line that's necessary.
To do that put the grfcodec, grfwizard, and the sprites to a dir very close to the root dir, and don't use long file/dir names, then try again.

-edit- http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?p=160468#160468

[Patchman]

The problem is that "grfwizard" creates a too long command line that dos cannot process. I tried to tell this to Andrex, but he seems to be preoccupied with various ttdx configurators and such...

That doesn't really make sense... grfcodec is not a DOS program, it's a Windows console program, and the command line can be thousands of characters long.

[eis_os]

To be exact:

cmd.exe: 2047 (Win2000) 8191 (XP)
CreateProcess API: 32768

Reference:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... -us;830473

[Patchman]

I don't know how VB starts new processes, but it'd be stupid if it used cmd.exe... but then, that'd be right on par with the rest of VB...

[Zimmlock]

Bhuu thanks for the help, but this goes way beyond my knowledg. I am just an end user.
Ill just generate .exe files without undo files

[ChrisCF]

Here's a better idea. Don't generate .exe files at all.

Some of us don't use Windows as a primary OS, and it sucks to reboot just to apply these changes - I'm not entirely confident of whether they'll work properly under wine. Generate only the diff, and use grd2grf to make something vaguely sensible out of it.

This is all in addition to the fact that the .exe graphics are sooooooooo last century

[Szappy]

The problem is that "grfwizard" creates a too long command line that dos cannot process. I tried to tell this to Andrex, but he seems to be preoccupied with various ttdx configurators and such...

That doesn't really make sense... grfcodec is not a DOS program, it's a Windows console program, and the command line can be thousands of characters long.

It may be that way, but try what I wrote (shorten dir names/path) and it _will_ work.
Just have a look at the Details button (it shows the command line given) after completing a de/encode, and you'll see:

command.com /K d:\grfcodec\grfcodec.exe -d -p 2 "d:\tt95\trg1r.grf" "d:\tt95\sprites"

[Zimmlock]

Oké, after halve a day trying the GRF-wizard outputted the undo files to.
Still not able the generate WIN files.

I stumbled on something else, the NFO editor, but i run win98se and this program isnt 100 % yet.

But i opend my NFO file and found some editable information. I am not planing to do cars and trains and so on, this is way to complex. But i am in to buildings and would like to make some of them highter or spann two squares.
In the NFO file i found this:

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 1478 d:\mps\ttdos\sprites\trg1.pcx 82 4632 09 63 62 -27 -41

This means:
spritenum pcxfile xpos ypos compression ysize xsize xrel yrel
Whitch number do i have to change and in what way to increase the hight of this building.

[Oracle]

63 is the height of the sprite in pixels so 65 for example would make it 2 higher.
62 is the width in pixels.

You might also find that it doesn't fit properly if you make it taller so you will have to shift it up (likely) or down.
Changing -41 to -42 shifts it up one pixel.
Changing -41 to -40 shifts it down one pixel.
You can obviously change the number multiple times to move it several pixels.