[PS2] How does EA’s "type 3" 4-bit swizzle actually work?

[PavelSharp]

Hi there! Excited to be here and finally join the community

I'm working on a texture tool for BloodRayne, with support for all platforms the game was released on. With the help of ImageHeat and ReverseBox, I got the basics of swizzle/unswizzle. Some of which can be described as bijective mappings, which I actually enjoy working with. Bloodrayne 1 was released on 5 platforms and uses 10 formats to represent textures, and almost all of them involve swizzling (except the PC version, of course). The ReverseBox helped me understand most of them, except for one. In ImageHeat, it's called as "PS2(EA 4 BIT)". Unfortunately, the source code of _convert_ps2_ea_4bit is not available and is implemented as in a closed library. In created issue, the author mentioned there are no plans to release the source code yet.

So does anyone here know how this "type 3" swizzle works? Any clues where to look, or other tools/projects/technical docs that might help figure it out? And my favorite question - is a bijective mapping or not?

Thanks in advance. Any help or pointers would be hugely appreciated.

An example file is attached. It's a lightmap. Here’s how to view it in ImageHeat:

1. Width = Height = 512
2. Start Offset: 152
3. Pixel Format: PAL4
4. Swizzling Type: PS2(EA 4 BIT)
5. Palette Format: RGBX8888
6. Pal. Offset: 56

 

[10,br1,ps2]SEC_2_GRAVEYARD_LX_12.zip

Edited 17 hours ago by PavelSharp