PS3 [RESEARCH] Special characters in imagefont.bin - Emojis icons symbols

[DeViL303]

Well I suppose 26x23 could still be the native resolution? As that vsh screenshot is just how big it displays when used as an XMB title, you can see its smaller in my first post where its used as an "info" string, and its a different size again somewhere in between on the epilepsy warning.

 

[littlebalup]

Probably. i don't remember if fonts are scaled in vsh menu sources.
Could you send me a 1:1 scaled screenshot of the O button from xmb tittle, with pure black background (by using pure black png wallpaper and using vsh menu screenshot feature)?

 

[DeViL303]

This one from the previous page is at native screen res (XMB title), on black background.

I just cropped it.

 

[littlebalup]

Ok, sorry, I misunderstood...

 

[sandungas]

I noticed the icon has a light effect at bottom line (some white ilumination effects) that bytes have the higest values, im going to convert some here for the record:
0xF3 (1111 0011)
0xF9 (1111 1001)
0xFD (1111 1101)
0xFF (1111 1111)

At top-center there is another interesting group
0xE8 (1110 1000)
0xEA (1110 1010)
0xEC (1110 1100)
0xEB (1110 1011)
0xE9 (1110 1001)
0xE7 (1110 0111)

 

[sandungas]

Offset(h) 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19

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Offset(h) 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19

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Offset(h) 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19

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Offset(h) 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19

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0000023C  FF A6 AB B6 D3 F2 F8 FC FE 90 A3 AD B7 B3 AC 92 A6 A6 A6 A6 A6 A6 A6 A6 A6 A6  ÿ¦«¶Óòøüþ.£·³¬'¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦

 

[littlebalup]

Doing some searchs using GIMP, it seems it's indexed colors. So using an RVB (+ alpha?) palette. Hoping the palette is somewhere in the bin file.

Edit:
Made a custom raw RVB palette the circle button screenshot, then opened the glyph as raw using that palette and it shows:

So, ugly but it's because my palette is approximated, without alpha, wrong color or missing adresse...
If we find the palettes, we win.
And seeing there are different values for the full transparancy, per glyph means there are one palette per glyph...

 

[sandungas]

Yep, i just found the palettes, for every one of the images i posted in my previous message there is a color palette (also compressed in zlib individually) in another table inside imagefont.bin

At top of every palette it tells the byte assigned to transparency, for the 4 images i posted, the palettes are using 0xAD, 0xA4, 0xA0, and 0xA6 respectivelly for transparent
This is the only byte i could identify from the palettes, i never dealed with image files like this, but i think is enought to say that are actually color palettes

The palettes are a bit weird, has like an small header (where the transparency value is indicated), and after that appears a list of values in increasing order (from 0x00 up to 0xFF but are not scaled preciselly), every value seems to be 0x4 lenght (im guessing are the colors in RGBA)

I will send you the files i cropped and decompressed so you can see it better

 

[bguerville]

@Berion may want to weigh in but 8bpp with transparency usually follows this binary pattern AARRGGBB where AA is the alpha channel for transparency.
However I thought the hex code for full transparency was 00 for 0% opacity & FF for 100% opacity.
10% increments steps would go like this:

Hex codes for opacity:

100% — FF
90% — E6
80% — CC
70% — B3
60% — 99
50% — 80
40% — 66
30% — 4D
20% — 33
10% — 1A
0% — 00

Unless, like you said, this palette uses another binary pattern...

 

[sandungas]

There are palettes, is verifyed, right now are identifyed 3 values from them
-the transparent byte
-pixel data offset
-pixel data lenght

The palettes works also as a "link" to tell the firmware where is located the pixel data inside imagefont.bin
The firmware loads the contents of imagefont.bin "from bottom to top" in this order:
1 - reads the index (at bottom of imagefont.bin), in the index is specifyed where are located the palettes
2 - reads the palettes (at middle of imagefont.bin), in the palettes is specifyed where is the pixel data
3 - reads the pixel data (at top of imagefont.bin)

*All "palettes" and "pixel data" chunks are compressed in zlib individually

 

[sandungas]

I updated wiki page like 40 times today while looking at the structure in HxD and notepad++
If someone is interested in it, please take a calmly read (and compare in your PC with the files)
http://www.psdevwiki.com/ps3/XMB_Fonts#imagefont.bin

The section about the "palette" is new, and is specially interesting, this is where is stored the animation and frame info
Inside the "palette" there is a header (0x6 bytes), then a section for every frame (0xC bytes each), and then a list with the colors in the palette (as far i saw there are 256 colors, 4 bytes each)
@littlebalup is making good advances with that color palette, im sure he understand how colors works better than me at this point

In total there are 7 "unknowns" in the whole structure, but are isolated (the values stored in them doesnt seems to affect the structure), it can be said the overall "skelleton" of the file format structure is mapped, now is posible to make an script or an app to automatize the extraction or rebuilding even without knowing what is the purpose of the "unknowns" (in other words, we can deal with the unknowns like if there was knowns by using the values found in ofw)
From that 7 unknowns i think there are 2 or 3 that can be identifyed by looking at the palettes of other icons (i only was looking at a 5 files from the 300+ availables), in another 2 unknowns only was found the value zero used (so is imposible to identify them until we find some icons where are used, but maybe are not used anywhere, this ones could be easter eggs features, or stuff inherited from PSP that was not used in PS3), and another couple of unknowns that seems to use binary flags

Today we made a good step forward with this file format

 

[DeViL303]

More special characters discovered due to sandungas' and littlebalups research.


Edit: See below.

 

[sandungas]

Yeah 0xEF9187

 

[bguerville]

Hmm... 256 colors, each using 4 bytes when only one byte is needed...?
If you are right, given the choice to use 32 bit (= 4 bytes), one would have expected a much larger color palette... What kind of info is stored in the 3 extra bytes?

 

[littlebalup]

Yes, understood the palette indexes and the colors.
Colors are 4 bytes. RGBA (1st byte for the red, 2nd for the blue, 3rd for the green and 4th for the alpha)
Palette color index starts at 0x12 in the palette file with the color number 0x00, color number 0x01 at 0x16, etc...
256 colors stored.
I'll try to make some understandable screens tonight.

 

[DeViL303]

Chat:

Buttons:

Sony Logos:

System Icons:

Smileys:

Hand Signs:

Transport:

Plants:

Food:

Vegetables and Fruit:

Sweets:

Games/Sports:

Phones/Clocks/PCs etc:

Tools/Audio etc:

Instruments/Bags/Shoes/Buildings etc:

Animals:

Arrows:

Star Signs:

That is all of them afaik.

Here they are all displayed on the epilepsy warning.

Here is a link to all screenshots and a txt file with them all included for any one interested. The layout in the text file is exactly the same as the screenshots.

DOWNLOAD

EDIT: after having another look, seems I am missing a couple. I have 330, there should be 332. dam..

 

[littlebalup]

Successfully converted pixels and palette data to a readable targa file
It's pretty easy in fact. Just need to create a proper targa header, swap some color bytes in the palette (targa palette colors are BGRA), keep the pixels data as is, then combine all together in a single file.
See attached preview and samples. Now I'll have a look to the animated pics.

 

[DeViL303]

Successfully converted pixels and palette data to a readable targa file
It's pretty easy in fact. Just need to create a proper targa header, swap some color bytes in the palette (targa palette colors are BGRA), keep the pixels data as is, then combine all together in a single file.
See attached preview and samples. Now I'll have a look to the animated pics.

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You dont hang around, Great work!

 

[sandungas]

Nice collection DeViL303, there are a lot this is going to take me some time to upload to wiki (the .txt file you made comes in handy to copypaste the "tofu" to the new tables btw), i will do in the next days at some point, gime me time

At this point im done with the structure i think, all i know about it is written in the wiki page, maybe i will edit it a bit more today to clean it up or reorder it but im in a pause

@littlebalup now you are going to take a look at the animations try to see if you can identify some of the 7 "unkown" values left from the structure, take a fast look at wiki page, are marked in red (to boost the interest on purpose, hehhehe, this is what i use to call a "dev bait" as a wiki internal joke)
Good work with the pixel conversion, and good point about the targa format, i dont know targa but i can tell sony uses targa format for the original images inside RCO files (before are converted to GIM... orignally are targa in the firmware compilation enviroment), i know because the orignal name (with .tga file extension) can be seen at the footer of some GIM files

So is probable that the images from imagefont.bin was originally targa, and in the process of creation of imagefont.bin the header was removed, then the channels order of the palette was swapped, etc... as you explained
It comes in handy for any kind of custom rebuilder, to deal with the custom images is better to use .tga this way the conversion to imagefont.bin format is direct (no quality loss because the pixel info will remain intact)

 

[DeViL303]

I have realised I am missing 2. Not looking forward to going through them all again to find them.

Anyway, This is all great, I think the first thing to do once we can is add a PS2 logo (if its not one of the ones I missed), should be easy enough to use the PSP logo as a base, and then use the top half of the "P" to make the "2" by copying it and rotating it.