About VOXELS.VPL

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I found some interesting things about VOXELS.VPL (ra2.mix->local.mix)
It consist from file header, palette and some data

1.File header
typedef struct tagVPLHEADER
{
DWORD dwRemapPlayerColorStart;
DWORD dwRemapPlayerColorEnd;
DWORD dwNumberOfSections;
DWORD dwUnknown;
} VPLHEADER;

2. Palette
Usual palette as in .PAL files
3. Sections
Each section occupies 256 bytes

I don't know where palette use
Original VOXELS.VPL (VPL - Voxel PaLette ) size is 8976 bytes
It is real 16 + 768 + 32 * 256 (dwNumberOfSections = 32)
dwNumberOfSections must be less than 32
I think what section data is color remap for different unit rotations
But I am not test it yet

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The 'section' data can be the normals. In this case, the normals palette would be composed of 3 floats per normal.

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Banshee wrote:

The 'section' data can be the normals. In this case, the normals palette would be composed of 3 floats per normal.

No it is not normals
In section data stored color indexs (I think)
GAMEMD.EXE reading only ONE byte for one loop step
Set the dwNumberOfSections to 1 or 16
It is interesting