PMP FILES

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				CREDITS
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  Special thanks to André de Boer (andredb@molyvos.net) for sending me all of
the information contained within this document.

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				DESCRIPTION
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  The PMP files used in Papyrus' race simulations are used to contain the
images displayed for objects that are not easily represented by the polygons
used in most 3DO files.  These objects, when viewed within the game, always
look the same no matter where they are viewed from.  The only thing that will
change is the scale (when you are farther away they look smaller).  Examples
of these objects on some of the tracks are trees and balloons.

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				STRUCTURE
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SECTION ONE: The Header
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    BYTE    PURPOSE
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    000     Image height in pixels
    001     Image width in pixels
    002-003 Something to do with size of PMP image
    004-007 Image Size (filelength - 12)
    008-011 Unknown (byte 8 is always 1e hex)

SECTION TWO: The Image
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  The image is stored as a series of 4-byte sequences.  Each sequence
represents a run of pixels of a certain color.  The first byte in this
sequence is the vertical position of this run.  The second and third bytes
are the horizontal start and finish positions of the run.  The fourth and
final byte contains the color used in this run.  The second byte's value must
be less than or equal to the value of the third byte.

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-Corey Rueckheim
-rueck_cw@cslab.uwlax.edu