Blood Pill

Blood Pill - a set of tools to manipulate with .BIG files. It can be used to view the data stored in pill.big - resources file of Blood Omen.

Blood Pill is able to decode all filetypes used in the game into readable/listenable form: speech sound, tile, sprite, tim graphich and more. Only Blood Omen .BIG files are supported.

Features

 * Packing/Unpacking of .BIG files for PC and PSX versions of BO
 * TIM <-> TGA autoconversion during packing and unpacking
 * RAW ADPCMWAV/OGG autoconversion during packing and unpacking
 * Unpacking sprites (enemies and objects) to separate TGA pictures
 * Unpacking tiles (level textures) to TGA
 * Unpacking the multiobject files ('merged' files that is used on some entries in BO)
 * .JAM video to .TGA decoding
 * Decoding VAG files to WAV PCM/OGG sounds
 * Decoding levels to TGA images (with optional developer info shown)
 * Patching .big files
 * Providing support for Blood Omnicide installation

Usage
Blood Pill is a commandline utility. To get available command list, execute it without any parms. Also there is some sample batch scripts in samples/ folder, covering most useful stuff:

Sample batch scripts:


 * extract_file.bat : unpacks one file from pill.big.
 * list.bat : create a listing file from pill.big
 * unpack.bat : unpack pill.big with all conversions enabled.
 * unpack_raw.bat : unpack pill.big with pure filetypes (no conversions).
 * unpack_fortranslating.bat : unpack with TIM->TGA and ADPCM->WAV conversion which is useful for making your own BO PC translation.
 * unpack_oggsounds.bat : unpack pill.big with all conversions and sound files being converted to Ogg Vorbis.
 * pack.bat : create a new pill2.big based on 'bigfile' folder (converts back all tga and wav).
 * tga2tim(test.tga).bat : TGA->TIM conversion
 * tim2tga(test.tim).bat : TIM->TGA conversion
 * tim2tga(test.tim)_16to24.bat : TIM->TGA conversion with 16->24 bits conversion enabled

To use sample batch files. copy them to directory that contains bpill.exe (pill.big should be there too).

Download

 * GitHub repository
 * Blood Pill v1.01
 * Blood Pill v1.00
 * Blood Pill v0.9