Sorry I may be slightly confused.
First I would use Plombo's too to convert my current gifs into useable pngs. Next, I am looking to change the reference to each gif in every txt file whether it is a background layer or entity. For example:
FROM
frame data/chars/1billy/grab01.gif
TO
frame data/chars/1billy/grab01.png
Can the batch file renamer do this or will it only change the file name?
You also mentioned that OpenBOR will know the difference? Are you saying I can leave the frame line and as .gif and the actual file as .png and everything will still work?
When I say OpenBOR knows the difference, I mean you can’t just change the extension and expect the file to work. That’s like changing the badge on a car - it’s still the same machine underneath.
You have to change the extension
and convert the file.
If OpenBOR sees the wrong extension, it won’t bother reading further - it will reject the file outright. If you use the right extension but the wrong file type, OpenBOR will attempt to read it, but .gif images are not .png images. The compression is different, and the data layout is different. The image loader library will send back a code that basically means
"I don’t know what the f*** this is.” OpenBOR will then assume the file is corrupted or invalid and handle it accordingly.
For the batch renamer, yes, it can rename extensions only - that’s how I fixed some of my older projects and why I placed in Resources.
Photoshop would probably be the fastest way to convert the files, because it can read every file in the entire project and save .png versions with the same palette using its Save for Web dialog. Plombo’s PalApply tool can do it too, but you’ll need to go folder by folder to avoid screwig up your image palettes, since it’s meant to apply a single palette to groups of images. Still, that should be reasonably quick.
This is why I’ve been telling y’all to stop using .gif since around 2010. Eventually, support for it had to go.
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