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[Miloch]

I looked again and didn't see what you're talking about - shadow only appears on one side of the resized BAM. Also, the BAM opens in BAM Workshop 1 but shows all frames as blank. I've noticed that for other animations - not sure what causes it. DLTCEP can display it - maybe it automatically corrects the errors, I don't know. I've also noticed that for BAM Resizer resized BAMs.

[The Imp]

I looked again and didn't see what you're talking about - shadow only appears on one side of the resized BAM. Also, the BAM opens in BAM Workshop 1 but shows all frames as blank.

Hmm, might it be cause the .bam is compressed, as to the effect that the blank frames are replaced by the previous non blank one ?? Näh, I don't even know what's this is all about so... nän-nänänäänääää.

[Gwendolyne]

I think a picture should illustrate what happens : frame 33 (resized bam) zoomed is attached.

 

I must say that I am not the only one who faced this little glitch, which seems to be well known in the the french modders circle...

If you want to display it with Bam Workshop 1 : load it in DLTCEP, uncompress it (all the frames AND externally), save it, then compress it again.
That's the way I do every time I can't display the frames in BamWk 1 : it works 99 % of the time. Don't ask me why as I don't know !

 

[Miloch]

Ok, I see it now. I suspect it's some error in the bamresize.py formulae, but it would take a guru to figure out what or where it is.

[Sam.]

I think a picture shouIf you want to display it with Bam Workshop 1 : load it in DLTCEP, uncompress it (all the frames AND externally), save it, then compress it again.
That's the way I do every time I can't display the frames in BamWk 1 : it works 99 % of the time. Don't ask me why as I don't know !

Can you upload an example?  (A BAM out of bamresize and the one after recompressing it with DLTCEP?)

[Gwendolyne]

Ok, I see it now. I suspect it's some error in the bamresize.py formulae, but it would take a guru to figure out what or where it is.

 

I think so and moreover this bug happens randomly !

 

 

Can you upload an example?  (A BAM out of bamresize and the one after recompressing it with DLTCEP?)

 

 

Ok : GWBatRes is the file out of Bamresize and GWBatDLT after being uncompressed and recompressed with DLTCEP.

 

 GWBat000.7z   63.95K   436 downloads

[Sam.]

Ok, I see it now. I suspect it's some error in the bamresize.py formulae, but it would take a guru to figure out what or where it is.

I think so and moreover this bug happens randomly !

Well, after hours of reverse engineering the differences between those two files, I'm pretty sure I figured out what the problem was and even how to fix it in bamresize.py.  However, when I uncomment the line Avenger_teambg suggested here (I think "#     main()" on line 675?) I get a syntax error.  I am also missing several imports (glob, os, re, etc.) so I can't run the python script.  Where do I get these?

Edited by Sam., 12 October 2013 - 12:55 AM.

[Gwendolyne]

Have you tried this link : http://www.python.or...nload/releases/ ?

[Sam.]

Have you tried this link : http://www.python.or...nload/releases/ ?

Now it runs but reports an elapsed time of 0.0 seconds and no resized file is produced...  I installed python 2.1.3 as it was the closest to the version bamresizer was written for.

[Miloch]

I think I had the same results with that - I asked Avenger if he did anything else special; hopefully he'll report here.

[Avenger_teambg]

You should also fix the resizeFrame function as shown.

[Avenger_teambg]

If you want to display it with Bam Workshop 1 : load it in DLTCEP, uncompress it (all the frames AND externally), save it, then compress it again.
That's the way I do every time I can't display the frames in BamWk 1 : it works 99 % of the time. Don't ask me why as I don't know !
...
 

 
I think it is the rle compression, you don't have to save it, just uncompress all/compress all via the tool's menu.
dltcep has many built in error corrections, sometimes it performs these totally silently.

Edited by Avenger_teambg, 12 October 2013 - 03:40 PM.

[Gwendolyne]

You are right, but saving is just a security process I use. Useless I agree with you, but so comfortable for my mood !

[Sam.]

You should also fix the resizeFrame function as shown.

That still doesn't change the fact that uncommenting the "main()" at the bottom throws a syntax error...

[Sam.]

Alright, give this a try.  I think all of the dependencies should now be included, so if it complains let me know so I can fix it.  Included is Avenger_teambg's modified resizeFrame function and my patch for making it compatible with BAMWorkshop.  Please let me know if it works .

 

Edit:  When I fixed the one problem I think it created a second, and I have a nagging suspicion when I fix it I'm going to find a third...

Edit2:  I think I fixed it.  Now using "-p 100" produces exactly the same output as the input (in my test case anyway).  See updated attachment.

Attached Files

•  bamresize v2.1-alpha.rar   1.07MB   375 downloads

Edited by Sam., 13 October 2013 - 12:21 AM.

[Miloch]

Cool. Does this need a particular version of python?

[Sam.]

Cool. Does this need a particular version of python?

Well, it was originally (and still is) packaged with Python 2.1.1 (#20, Jul 26 2001, 11:38:51).  What I found and installed was Python 2.1.3 (#35, Apr 8 2002, 17:47:50) and it works with that version as well.  Beyond that, I don't know.

[Gwendolyne]

Cool !

 

Thanks a lot. I will test it today but before, just two questions :

 

1. There is no bamresize.exe file. When resizing a bam file, I use a bat file like that "bamresize -p 75 GWBATA1.bam". As I never used python, how to do the same command with your package ?

 

2. I already installed python 26 for Blender. Must I install python 2.1.1 somewhere on my HD to use your package ?

[Sam.]

Now it is "python.exe bamresize.py -p 75 GWBATA1.bam". There is no reason to install python on your system to run bamresizer because the python.exe (and hopefully all of the other dependencies that were missing before) that you need are already included in the archive.

Let me know if some frames are still being corrupted/pixels on the L & R are being switched (as I suspect they will since it is likely a seperate coding issue than the one I have already addressed). This is what I think is happening here: when a frame from a BAM is saved to a BMP, each row of pixels has to be padded with 0x00 to be a multiple of 4. I don't think bamresize is doing this, so when the frame data is sent to the the image library for resizing, it doesn't handel it properly and thus we get the rotated rows of pixels. The corruption seems random because the width of some frames happen to be a multiple of 4. IF this is indeed the case, I'm not sure I have a good enough understanding of python to be able to fix it... Maybe someone else will be willing to give it a try?

[Gwendolyne]

Sam, YOU ARE MY SAVER !!!

 

 

I only tested the new version to resize my Bat file to 75 % :

 

1. I can read it with Bam Workshop 1.

 

2. And maybe you should gain the title of "God" because of this miracle : NO MORE CROPPING AND REWRITING of the left part to the right !

 

 

A few months ago, it would have save me a lot of time. But I will now reuse it for my spell animations bam files. I will inform all the modders I was in touch with and who encountered this glitch they can get rid of their Photoshop scriptings to reduze the frame and use your new version.

 

 

When I tried to understand why the corrupted bams happened randomly, I was just sure that it happened 100 % when the frame width or length were odd numbers, and randomly when they were even...