Reading PMP files in JavaScript?

[iangilman]

I’m writing a tool to create new “Living Worlds” pixel art scenes (like Living Worlds - Art by Mark Ferrari) on a webpage, and I’m interested in being able to load files from ProMotion, particularly with color cycling.

I’ve found this:

File format of PMP files?

Indeed there is no documentation yet. But actually most of the things are straight forward to understand or to “guess” A few hints: The pmp file is actually a zip file. After unzipping you have different sorts of files such as: ~pmotion.brc Brush container. A bit more complicated. Hope you don’t need it ~pmotion.pmp Project control file. It is a so called “Windows ini file”, see INI file - Wikipedia It contains different sections and I bet when you have a lo…

I know how to open zip files in JavaScript, and the ~pmotion.pmp file is just text, but I need to be able to load the pixels (e.g. ~pmotion.layer-X.pmd), and I haven’t found anything for loading FLC files in JavaScript.

I’ll keep hunting around, but I figured I should post here and see if anyone has already gone down this rabbit hole!

[jan.cosmigo]

FLC is a fairly simple file format, so it should not be hard to create a decoder in JS. But indeed I doubt that there is a reader, yet.

[iangilman]

Cool. It seems this might be a good starting point:

aseprite/flic/blob/main/decoder.cpp

Along with this, of course:

https://www.compuphase.com/flic.htm

I’m not sure how far down this road I’ll go, but it’s good to know what the next steps are.