Grf2Html [0.5.2 released - 2010-05-02]

[JGR]

The easiest way to use the program is to drag-'n-drop the grf fie you want decoding onto the executable file.
It will then produce a new directory in the same folder as the original GRF.

[VoroninY]

The easiest way to use the program is to drag-'n-drop the grf fie you want decoding onto the executable file.
It will then produce a new directory in the same folder as the original GRF.

I hope, that I won`t say something wrong, but I have understood nothing from your explanation. Ordinary for me and for my age (I am 12)...

[DaleStan]

Which part did you not understand?
"the grf file you want decoded", "drag and drop", or "onto the executable file"?

If you tell me which one you don't understand, I might manage to explain it, but they all seem so self-evident to someone who's been working with computers for substantially longer than you've been alive that I'm not entirely sure where to start.

[VoroninY]

I haven`t understand THE FRASE "onto the executable file".

[DaleStan]

OK. Perform the "drop" half of "drag and drop" with the mouse over grf2html.exe.

[frosch]

Hooray! New version in first post! Including quite a bunch of new features
The changelog can be found at the bottom of the first post. But I also want to point some things out here:
- There is a new frame on the left, which groups actions belonging to the same ID of the same feature.
- You can now also walk by hyperlinks from the Action1 down the Action2 chain to the final Action3.
- Advanced VarAction2s are now a lot more readable, as constants and varadjusts are printed more intelligent.
- Action0, 2 and D now print certain numbers signed, if they are signed.
- The preliminary NewGrf Airports specs are preliminarily supported. "preliminary" means both the specs and the support for them might change or even get abandoned in the future.

On a general note: As the information grf2html can print constantly grows with every release, the probabilty that too much excessive information renders the output unuseful increases [*]. Therefore most of the new features can be disabled in the inifile. (Not every option has an equivalent on the command line though)

And now, enjoy the new version

[*] E.g. I had a patch to print Action0 values in sensible units. But it is just too much to simply dump it into the output.

[onodera]

I'd like to thank you for this tool. It is immensely useful for me, as I have to work with a decompiled nfo, and finding the correct varaction 2 is a pain. A pain unless I use grf2html.

[frosch]

Small update to catch up with all the new newgrf features which were added during the last 7 months.

Changelog and binaries in first post.

[stevenh]

I totally should have collaborated with you when I started creating GRF Hacking....
As you can tell, i didn't even come up with a good name.
Your code should really be extended with a layer of editability on top. Reporting the correct 'translation' of the GRF code to english is 75% of the hard work.

One day I'll find some time and come knocking on your door to work it all out

[frosch]

My door will be open

Though I do not plan to add any editing capabilities myself. In that point I have the same opinion as mb,
I.e. I don't think that clicking around with varaction2 chains would be very useful. A GUI tool would be more adequate for cropping, aligning and constructing spritelayouts.

But nevertheless I am sure there are enough things on my never-ending-todo-list some editor could benefit from.

[andythenorth]

Thanks for this tool. I am currently learning nfo by editing an existing, slightly complex file with 1200 sprites in it and no comments That's sort of fun, but I'd be lost without Grf2html.

cheers,

Andy

[frosch]

\o/
1.5 years after the previous release there is an update

Details in first post.

Oh, and now I can unashamed ask to move this topic to the Technical Discussion forum
Edit: Thanks