How the freak did you open those .RAW images?
Edit: freaking MARCK. freak YOUR STUPID CENSOR BULL <3
Some educated guessing for the most part.
I just use irfanview since it's really quick to load and I can re-import images repeatedly without photoshop's clunky interface getting in my way.
Anyways RAW images are just color data, they don't contain any other info like the bits per pixel
or the resolution.
The bits per pixel can be easily guessed (there's only a few possible values and even incorrect ones will still get you close so you know when guessing the resolution), the resolution is what's the killer. There's no data in RAW images about how many pixels across they are, and if the number is wrong you'll often just get a mess of incomprehensible data. I usually start by importing images at multiples of a hundred across (height doesn't matter much, it's the width you need to get foremost), and if that doesn't get me what I need I start going by powers of two.
This didn't work for the flightmaps though, they're not using any sort of standardized resolutions, so I had no clue what to import them as until I noticed that minimapinfo.xml or whatever actually had the map resolution noted in it... so as you can see above I was able to view the actual flightmap (and of course with the info I got, edit it without just flood-filling in a hex editor up to the required byte number).
Some examples...
Getting the color depth/interpretation wrong.
As you can see, you can still tell what the image is supposed to be, so you can just try a few options until you get the one that's the right resolution and looks good.
Getting the resolution wrong...
Unusable mess, gotta' keep trying different resolutions.
ANYWAYS are the edited flightmaps in tiara done by anybody here, or is this one of those "it came from somewhere, we're not sure where" mods? It should be possible to add flightmaps to older maps by editing minimapinfo.xml and making new RAW flightmap images for them, it's just flight ability could easily be server-sided so I assumed previously that people tested and it didn't work... is this worth a shot or has it already been tried?