Post by: hbrdXΣr0 on March 07, 2006, 05:08:00 PM
So, I went with what I know: PHP.
After a good few hours work, I can now extract files from XZP files. I've only actually extracted one file, it was a VMT, but the contents "LightmappedGeneric" show that I did my work just fine.
I need to do a paper, but I'll work on getting it to extract the entire contents in a little bit.
P.S. For those of you without the CLI version of PHP, once I finish coding it I'll compile it with the excellent Phalanger and release it. It'll probably be in steps, the first release simply extracting everything from a specified XZP file to a folder.
This post has been edited by hÿbrîdXΣr0: Mar 8 2006, 01:14 AM
Post by: hbrdXΣr0 on March 07, 2006, 06:51:00 PM
Please let me know right away if you can't run the program, I haven't tried it from a clean machine myself. Requires the .NET 1.1 runtime. I'm not responsible for your xbox exploding, etc. etc.
Download here.
Post by: ash_link on March 07, 2006, 11:23:00 PM
Post by: SuB-Zer0 on March 08, 2006, 07:35:00 AM
I will try it out later this day.
Does this mean we can later import things too ?
Post by: hbrdXΣr0 on March 08, 2006, 11:31:00 AM
QUOTE(SuB-Zer0 @ Mar 8 2006, 09:06 AM) 
Sounds very good hÿbrîdXΣr0
I will try it out later this day.
Does this mean we can later import things too ?
Maybe. I don't know the file format well enough (I went off someone else's work for the decompiling) to import back. There's also a lot I don't understand about binary file formats, so it probably won't be me that'll write the importer.
I have contacted Nem of GCFScape and he said it should be pretty easy to add to HLlib and GCFscape. I will try and work with him to get it in, but we're just at the discussion stage right now. If we do that I will certainly release the source code to my own PHP script and we'll have a much better extraction program to work with. With the existing notes, and my completed reader code, as well as possibly HLlib in the future, maybe we can work out a method of writing back to the files. We will also have to figure out how to get them back into xz_ format (I believe they're just zipped, with code avaliable in the Source SDK, according to the person who also sent me the layout for the XZP files) so they can be replaced on the hard drive when you launch the game.
On a side note, I will release the source to the PHP code eventually, but I'm not exactly sure how the DCMA works and stuff so I don't know if I really need to right away
Post by: entens on March 08, 2006, 03:46:00 PM
QUOTE(hÿbrîdXΣr0 @ Mar 8 2006, 12:38 PM) 
Maybe. I don't know the file format well enough (I went off someone else's work for the decompiling) to import back. There's also a lot I don't understand about binary file formats, so it probably won't be me that'll write the importer.
I have contacted Nem of GCFScape and he said it should be pretty easy to add to HLlib and GCFscape. I will try and work with him to get it in, but we're just at the discussion stage right now. If we do that I will certainly release the source code to my own PHP script and we'll have a much better extraction program to work with. With the existing notes, and my completed reader code, as well as possibly HLlib in the future, maybe we can work out a method of writing back to the files. We will also have to figure out how to get them back into xz_ format (I believe they're just zipped, with code avaliable in the Source SDK, according to the person who also sent me the layout for the XZP files) so they can be replaced on the hard drive when you launch the game.
On a side note, I will release the source to the PHP code eventually, but I'm not exactly sure how the DCMA works and stuff so I don't know if I really need to right away (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)
*cough* the usual place is good *cough*
Post by: hbrdXΣr0 on March 08, 2006, 03:15:00 PM
QUOTE(entens @ Mar 8 2006, 05:17 PM)
*cough* the usual place is good *cough*
That's really unnessicary, seeing as most projects release their source publically but not the binaries. I'm already distributing the binary, I'm just waiting to do the source. Shouldn't be much longer.
Post by: ash_link on March 08, 2006, 06:23:00 PM
Post by: Infinite_Matrix on March 08, 2006, 06:27:00 PM
QUOTE(ash_link @ Mar 8 2006, 06:54 PM)
If only We could import
Compression?
Anybody need me?
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heh, just got a channel for it as well.
irc.dynastynet.net, #XHL2M
Post by: hbrdXΣr0 on March 08, 2006, 07:14:00 PM
Post by: ash_link on March 08, 2006, 09:07:00 PM
QUOTE(hÿbrîdXΣr0 @ Mar 9 2006, 02:45 AM)
Not compression. I believe the person who sent me the specs said there were checksums inside, too.
He told me to tell you that's timestamps
Post by: Infinite_Matrix on March 09, 2006, 03:15:00 AM
DynastyNet, #XHL2M
already got a couple people in the channel literally 3 minutes after it was made.(IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy.gif)
This post has been edited by Infinite_Matrix: Mar 9 2006, 11:16 AM
Post by: hbrdXΣr0 on March 09, 2006, 05:44:00 AM
Post by: hbrdXΣr0 on March 09, 2006, 07:25:00 PM
Source here