REMIP tool

this program can do two things:

* recompute all mipmaps of a Quake 1 WAD2 texture file
* convert a Half Life WAD3 into a Quake 1 WAD2

It will automatically do the right thing depending on which
kind of file you supply to it on the commandline, and output
to "remipped.wad".

NOTE: I wrote this tool for my own use, and its not meant to be
user friendly. If you feed it weird wads, it will do weird things :)

You want to remip a Quake 1 WAD2 for example if you created your
own wad using mipdip or similar tool, but the mipdips look shit
because most tools use a nearest pixel type sampling method which
gives you moiree patterns and defeats the object of mipmaps.
REMIP samples using averaging (an approximation mind) so looks
a lot better. It even takes into account fullbright colours correctly.

The WAD3 converter has simply been added to this and converts the
individual Half Life palettes to the Quake 1 palette, and then
recomputes the mips as above. It also scales down the luminance
by 50% as Half Life textures look _very_ bright and as you might know
bright textures and Quake 1 don't mix. The results are varying, some
textures are usable, others will lose too much in the convertion.
another thing is that the palettes will be kept in the WAD2 output
file (I'm lazy), they will simply be ignored by mipdip/qoole etc.

Wouter van Oortmerssen aka Aardappel

wvo96r@ecs.soton.ac.uk
http://www.staff.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~wvo96r/quake/

NOTE: I'm releasing this for the benefits of others, DON'T email
me asking for updates/bugfixes/feature changes.