ref: 7defaad9d2b48ef88faee9be7e0a1ed9e37ece53
parent: dc9185e50bf58a5e68fd097c9b5950c46889708f
author: ISSOtm <eldredhabert0@gmail.com>
date: Wed Apr 13 15:06:22 EDT 2022
Remove placeholder palette output format from -p This is now described in its own section
--- a/man/rgbgfx.1
+++ b/man/rgbgfx.1
@@ -189,8 +189,6 @@
to this file.
.It Fl p Ar pal_file , Fl Fl palette Ar pal_file
Output the image's palette set to this file.
-Palettes are emitted in order, TODO.
-If the palette contains too few colors, the remaining entries are TODO.
.It Fl P , Fl Fl output-palette
Same as
.Fl p Ar path ,
@@ -452,9 +450,21 @@
.Pq Fl d
is set to 1, the most significant bitplane (second byte) of each row, being all zeros, is simply not output.
.Ss Palette data
-Palette data is output like a dump of GBC palette memory.
+Palette data is output like a dump of palette memory.
Each color is written as GBC-native little-endian RGB555, with the unused bit 15 set to 0.
-There is no padding between colors, nor between palettes; however, empty colors in the palettes are TODO.
+There is no padding between colors, nor between palettes; however, empty colors in the palettes are output as 0xFFFF.
+.EQ
+delim $$
+.EN
+For example, if 5 palettes are generated with
+.Fl s Cm 4 ,
+the palette data file will be $2 times 4 times 5 = 40$ bytes long, even if some palettes contain less than 3 colors.
+.EQ
+delim off
+.EN
+Note that
+.Fl n
+only puts a limit on the amount of palettes, but does not fix this file's size.
.Ss Tile map data
A tile map is an array of tile IDs, with one byte per tile ID.
The first byte always corresponds to the ID of the tile in top-left corner of the input image; the second byte is either the ID of the tile to its right (by default), or below it
@@ -549,7 +559,7 @@
.Pp
TODO: more examples.
.Sh BUGS
-Please report bugs on
+Please report bugs and mistakes in this man page on
.Lk https://github.com/gbdev/rgbds/issues GitHub .
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr rgbds 7 ,