Splitting .mpo files in runtime with Unity?

Possible code head start:
https://github.com/dmitrybrant/MpoViewer'>
https://github.com/dmitrybrant/MpoViewer

I just skimmed it, but looking at Form1.cs is seems like he's reading in the full byte array and just lobbing off the second half with an offset value. Apparently the MPO is two standard jpgs stored in the same file with a delimiter somewhere marking the end of the first image and start of the next.

You should be able to load it into unity as a text asset, split the byte array (in half, or by some delimiter, not sure there) and load the bytes into two separate images with Texture2D.LoadImage.

All a big guess on my part though :-D

Yes. MPO is basically just 2 JPEG files concatenated together. You can just read in the hex-code and split it into two, then read in the results as JPEG. If I remember correct you are looking for 0xD8, which indicates the start of the image ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG#Syntax_and_structure ). Not sure exactly how that would work in Unity though.

Heya Everybody,

Thanks for the fast replies, forgot to check the notify me when a reply is posted box :).

CosbyTron & Cyber Realtiy: sounds doable. Thanks for the tips! I will look into it asap and report back. I don't know what a byte array is YET, but luckily unity is well documented! Sometimes I forget I'm an artist :)