X2Patch 0.9 Beta

[Stone-D]

What's new :

PCK Compression/Packing

What's changed :

DAT Unpacking - Fixed memory leak, extracted files use original filename in template. Eg,

01.DAT -> XData-01.idx & XData-01\....\....\....\....

PCK Decompression - Output file extension based on file content.

Coming soon(ish) :

Ship Editing. ( Depends how quick you guys get your act together
PCK Unpack/Repack during DAT processing.
PCK Unpack/Repack for directories.

Download : X2Patch09.zip

Mirror at will.


BTW. As today is the last day of work for a period of two weeks, I suspect I won't be hanging around the forums as much. I may lurk (log in, shift-click-click-click with opera, log off and disconnect before reading) a bit but I probably won't be posting as much.

In the meantime, get cracking with figuring out the TYPES folder, will ya? Remember I'm coding blind here, need your input!

[Commander Jamieson]

Mirror at will.

Done

Cheers

[man2104]

the decompressing part is working
but the compressing part is not
the packed pck file cause the crashing of the game!
i did a experiment
i unpack the TShield.pck and then pack it again without editing
the packed file is different from the orig. TShield.pck!

[Stone-D]

Dammit!

[mostlikely]

the decompressing part is working
but the compressing part is not
the packed pck file cause the crashing of the game!
i did a experiment
i unpack the TShield.pck and then pack it again
the packed file is different from the orig. TShield.pck!

Did you try repacking the file without editing it?

I did some experimenting myself.. and found that .pck's in the script folder cause no problem when unpacking and repacking without editing any content..
Also scripts where accepted when editing content and updating their version number. (Wich did not seem to reflect the change to their use in game)
However plainly editing a scripts content and repacking seemed to caused the game to crash.

Therefore I conclude that, atleast for the files in the script folder, there is some kind of internal double of the files wich need to be equal.

[man2104]

yes
i have repacked it without editing
althoguh the orgi. file is different from the new one
i get the same data after decompressing it by the patcher!
but it doesn't work in game
this is strange!

[Stone-D]

Grrrrrr. The problem is either the first 9 bytes of the file - particularly, bytes 6, 7, 8, 9 - or the compression I'm using. It *seems* to be ZLib using compression level 9.

Hmm. Could be CRC... I'll look. I've got TShips.pck somewhere, I'll run test on that and see what happens.

[dant]

I try to open an X2 Save and get the "Corrupted Save Game" error. I have not touched the files and I tried both 1.0 and 1.1 saves.

[AnzelVincir]

Seriously. I can't WAIT for the ship editing!!!

[Sandalpocalypse]

In the meantime, get cracking with figuring out the TYPES folder, will ya? Remember I'm coding blind here, need your input!

Hmm, if it'll help, Mehrunes and I posted all sorts of random info in the "big" thread.

[AnzelVincir]

With all of the interest in this project I don't see why someone at EGO doesn't step in here and give a little direction. I'm not saying they should provide full blown editor, just give us some pointers...

[Stone-D]

With all of the interest in this project I don't see why someone at EGO doesn't step in here and give a little direction. I'm not saying they should provide full blown editor, just give us some pointers...

What, and ruin all the fun?

Anzel, just browsed through the big thread. Good stuff you and Mehrunes posted there, it looks like it won't be a problem modifying the XTPatch code and upgrading it to X2 functionality.

Progress will be slow due to the normal reasons (no X2, yada yada) and the fact I'm limited to 56k modem for the next two weeks.

But I assure you I'm still plugging away at it.