Feature request: RGBGFX auto-named output to a different directory than input
Rangi42 opened this issue · comments
The -A
-P
-Q
-T
RGBGFX flags make it automatically pick a filename for the output attrmap, palette, palmap, and tilemap, based on the filename of the input image.
This request is for two new flags:
- A
-O
flag to automatically pick a filename for the output image (the extension would be.2bpp
or.1bpp
depending on-d
) - A
--prefix
flag that would set a common directory prefix for all output files, including the-O
output image.
For example:
rgbgfx -AOT -p res/palette.pal -q exception.palmap --prefix res sub/dir/title.png
This would output five files:
- res/title.2bpp
- res/title.attrmap
- res/palette.pal
- exception.palmap
- res/title.tilemap
Details to note:
- The specified prefix replaces whatever subdirectories the input image was in.
- The prefix does not apply to explicitly specified output filenames, only to automatically generated ones.
Both -P
and -p
are taken, so they can't be short flags for --prefix
. I'd propose -F
or -X
.
Alternative proposal 2: don't add a --prefix
flag, just add a -O
flag. This flag would not take a parameter, but would change the behavior of -APQT
to be based off the output filename, not the input.
For example:
rgbgfx -AT -o res/bar.2bpp gfx/foo.png
This currently creates gfx/foo.attrmap
, gfx/foo.tilemap
, and res/bar.2bpp
.
But:
rgbgfx -O -AT -o res/bar.2bpp gfx/foo.png
This would create res/bar.attrmap
, res/bar.tilemap
, and res/bar.2bpp
.
Note that this would mean you can only get the alternative-prefix functionality by specifying an output image. So you can't just generate, say, an auto-named palette in res/
from an image in gfx/
; you have to explicitly specify the palette name. This seems acceptable, since it would be a rare use case and has the explicitly-specified workaround.
For a long option, @ISSOtm proposes --group-outputs
.