Hello!
I have unpacked a description BAM which is made of 4 frames. How can I repack it into a description BAM? Convert BMPs to description BAMs creates four different files rather than putting them together like Convert BMPs to inventory BAMs does using xxxxxxl.bmp and xxxxxxs.bmp as source.
Thanks!
BAM Batcher isn't capable of reassembling complex multi-frame/multi-sequence BAMs. While 4-part description BAMs are certainly on the less complex end of that spectrum, I don't have much inclination to add additional features to BAM Batcher at this point. For this task (and most others), I recommend using PS BAM instead. It is also a command-line utility, but much more powerful.
Using PS BAM, you can extract description icon frames using a .BAT file like:
Replace "CPLAT01" with whatever your filename is. Wildcards ("*") are supported.
Then recombine the frames using:
Pass it only the first frame of the sequence (again, wildcards are supported so that the first frame of multiple BAMs may be passed at once). "%~dp0" is a special CMD option to insert the current working directory (including the trailing \) which I have used here for simplicity. While all these options/parameters may look daunting at the first glance, most of these options are set to enable good compression of the resulting BAM or are set to the default value (do not use). Of particular interest here is "--BAMProfile "DescriptionIcon" which sets the appropriate frame offsets for a description icon. Feel free to ask questions in the PS BAM thread if you have questions.
