I have a .TPL viewer here

[MarkGrass]

It's DOS, so you'll have to use the command prompt, but it works 100% This is one of the programs I used to hack a bunch of RE textures, and since i've got numerous questions about it, here's one of my little secrets. Enjoy.



EDIT: URL Fixed.

http://rapidshare.de/files/9043565/tplx.rar

[BlueFalcon7]

what the @#$! its not loading, cant you just attach the file? this rapidshare is not working

[Trotterwatch]

Works here

[BlueFalcon7]

got it working

[fatalexception]

very nice!
whose docs did you use to write it? yagcd? is its source available?

however, i noticed the alpha channel is often ignored in your tga file output.
format 6 looks correct.
formats 8, 9, & 14 appears to lack an alpha channel.
maybe this is due to using a color palette rather than true color. i guess ill find out when i get around to writing my own tpl viewer.

is this monks tplx? http://gcube.exemu.net/source.htm

[Ninjaro]

realy nice it worked so good sorry for my bad english

[BlueFalcon7]

does this only work for only resident evil? theres TPL files in half the isos i have, someone give a compat list

[MarkGrass]

@fatalexception - I didn't write this program, I found it on some German Gamecube emulation site a long time ago. If you are thinking of writing a .TPL viewer, please, by all means let me know!
Yes, after checking that link, it is Monk's TPLX. *the hell I went through awhile back just to find a .TPL program and it was under my nose the whole time *

@BlueFalcon7 - I'm almost positive that if you have some Gamecube .ISOs that have .TPL files, they can be extracted with TPLX.
TPL files are nothing more than little textures, and some prerendered backgrounds, atleast that's what i've found so far.

[BlueFalcon7]

i have seen TPL files in F-Zero GX but i think they are models, i was hoping to get some of those models, how come resident Evil and Mario games are getting so much attention and not F-Zero GX and sonic :-(

i have quite a few isos made by totally different companies with TPL files, i have checked F-Zero GX TPL files and i have seen a little bit down long chains of UUUUÿÿÿÿUUUUÿÿÿÿ... which in the hex a U is 55 and in binary 01010101, and ÿ is FF in hex and 11111111 in binary. I dont have the Iso for resident evil so could you check it out, if you dont have a hex viewer, notepad should work, the UUUUÿÿÿÿ... is hard to miss

[MarkGrass]

how come resident Evil and Mario games are getting so much attention and not F-Zero GX and sonic :-(

Sorry, I specialize in tearing both old and new school Resident Evil/BioHazard games apart on any console which obviously led me to investigate .TPL files. Most if not all of my work can be found on the BioHazard 1.5 Prototype Forum, BioFlames which is located here www.bioflames.com/forum (Mark's Corner is currently getting moved to THIA)

About the .TPL files, I checked about 3 of them in HEX and they all seem to have the same header (i'm sure it varies for different sized files), and had no strings you mentioned. Perhaps other companies included the models and textures in one .TPL file? Are the .TPL files you've found large in size?

EDIT: After checking out different sized .TPL files from BioHazard 4, they all have this same header:

0020 AF30