Need some help with decoding grf

[Zimmlock]

Hello community,
It has been a long long time for me to play Transport Tycoon and i wanted to fiddle around with some of my work.
So i DL the GRFWizard and the GRFCodec. It all looks fine, installed in the correct directory, selecting the grf i want to decode, it all works fine, however there appear no images (sprites) in my sprites map.
What do i wrong, i run latest Windows.

Best regards
Zimmlock

[PikkaBird]

Welcome back!

Do you not have the original sources any more? Which GRF are you trying to decompile?

(BTW, discord is the place to be for real-time support and chat these days ).

[Zimmlock]

Hello Pikkabird,

good to see you i tryed the basic ECS 2 and TTRS, the win CMD window functions okay, its like all runs fine, no error message but no sprites either lol.

Discord? dont like that to much

[Eddi]

Dunno how GRFWizard fares nowadays, with GRFCodec make sure it's a current version that can handle 32bpp sprites, as they become more and more prevalent. also the file format switched from BMP to PNG (although when decoding, this should be switchable)

[kamnet]

I've never gotten GrfWizard to work right for me. But grfcodec -d should definitely be throwing out a spritesheet for you. Any error messages that you've encountered?

[Zimmlock]

Thanks for reply,

It doesnt work and i simply forgot how it worked with the cmd, with Locomotion, you simply drag the grf on the decoder. dang time is catching up on me

[OzTrans]

It doesn't work ...

Welcome back ...

Forget GRFWizard, it is too old to work anymore.

You need to use GRFCodec v6.0.6 or later; you can find it here.

Use a BAT file to be able to specify all the required parameters, see Sample BAT.

The important parameters are :

-d : decode GRF.
-x : produce pure NFO code.
-t : produce output in NFO code (do not use, if text strings are to be in ASCII).
-o png : produce PNG-file sprite sheet.
-p 1 : use TTD DOS palette for output; (-p 2 for output in Windows palette).
-M 1 : if output is to be converted > Windows to DOS, use if GRF uses a different palette than desired palette specified with -p n; (-M 0 for DOS to Windows). -M is only required if your sprites turn out 'pinky'.

[dir] the sub-directory the output is to go into.

That should work, works for me without any problems.