https://github.com/redtoad/xcom-editor

A Go library to load image resources for UFO: Enemy Unknown
https://github.com/redtoad/xcom-editor

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A Go library to load image resources for UFO: Enemy Unknown

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/redtoad/xcom-editor
• Owner: redtoad
• License: mit
• Created: 2020-09-24T22:30:50.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2025-01-25T09:07:52.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-01-25T09:25:09.455Z (over 1 year ago)
• Topics: go, x-com
• Language: Go
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• Size: 271 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# xcom-editor

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This is a library to load image resources for the game [UFO: Enemy Unknown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO:_Enemy_Unknown). 

## Game images

All images are stored in a custom format (see https://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php/Image_Formats for more information).

Here is an example how you can extract the images from `ZOMBIE.PCK` to create an animated GIF:

```go

package main

import (

    "image/gif"

    "os"

    

    "github.com/redtoad/xcom-editor/resources"

)

func main() {

    // load all game palettes 

    palettes, _ := resources.LoadPalettes("GEODATA/PALETTES.DAT")

    // load image data from .PCK (all offsets are stored in .TAB file)

    offsets, _ := resources.LoadTAB("UNITS/ZOMBIE.TAB", 2)

    collection, _ := resources.LoadImageCollectionFromPCK("UNITS/ZOMBIE.PCK", 32, offsets)

    

    // convert to animated gif

    animated := collection.Animated(25, 40, palettes[4])

    f, _ := os.Create("zombie.gif")

    _ = gif.EncodeAll(f, animated)

}

```

The result is:

![](zombie.gif)