PCX - Newgrf

[CGAGraphics]

I need to convert a .pcx file to a .grf and I am very stuck.

I'm tring to convert the pcx file to grf to ues it in game

[kamnet]

PCX is an image file format, and it was the original graphics format that TTD, TTDX Patch and OpenTTD used for NewGRFs. Today everybody uses PNG image files instead, but PCX is still valid. You can pretty much use any graphics editing program to convert, you can also find online and downloadable PCX->PNG converters.

This file on its own will not get you a NewGRF. A NewGRF is composed of two or more parts: one or more spritesheets which has all the images you want to use, and a plain text file with all of the code required. The code was traditionally written in the NFO machine language spec, but today most people use the NML language, and there's also M4NFO and YAGL as alternatives. Whatever method you choose, you wilil still need to compile your code and images with a software program (which one depends on the language you pick) which will then create a .grf file.

[Quast65]

To make matters even worse, this PCX is from a wrongly decoded .GRF
As it has a lot of pinks in it, as it is decoded in the wrong palette

Decode it again and use -p 2, like this:

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grfcodec -d -p 2 c:/grfcodec603/dstatadd_part3/dstatadd_part3_v003.grf c:/grfcodec603/dstatadd_part3