My initial attempts at moding HW2 fail

[SvK]

They changed the BIG format. :(

[medamanx]

that was the first thing i tried too... :( it crashed my comp when i tried to read the file a second time...

[Delphy]

Thats becuase it's not like a BIG but more like an SGA....

:)

[Crook]

And the sga tool you've made reads the entries apparently, but there are subtle offset changes so it wont extract anything. God, if it's only a few lines of code we could have an extracted big in a day or so!!!!!

[Dan Van Crone]

Well get cracking, Delph. I can't wait to pull music.big apart and see what's in there. ;)

[maudib]

Done yet? :D Time to fire up the HW pirates shipyards again...

[Pavonis]

You frighten me with your abilities, especially since I don't quite understand how you figured out the SGA format in the first place. Thanks for making it possible for all of us to go and mod the games to bits.

[Dawn Falcon]

SGA?

[Captain Pierce]

I think .sga was the archive format that Impossible Creatures used...

[Delphy]

It was, and it took me 2 weeks to crack it, although only about 2 days where actual programming time.

Problem is I dont have the demo and wont have it becuase I have no way of downloading it....

I guess I'm probably the only one who understands my SGA code properly.... so it's up to me to get it working, but I can't without the demo.

*cries like a baby*

[Rei Ayanami]

Do you realy need the complet Demo or just some files like the exe. And why you cant downlaod the Demo ?

[Camelot One]

I would be happy to snail mail it to you on CD, just leave me a PM or email with your mailing address.

[Delphy]

It's okay I have it sorted.... Dawn is sending me the demo on CD and I am getting one of the .big files now :)

[Dan Van Crone]

<DanVanCrone> dude, there is a 53kb .big file with the homeworld demo. if I sent you that would it be enough to work with?
<Delphy> yes!
<DanVanCrone> if this helps you crack the offset in the archive you gotta give me props in whatever util you write for it
<DanVanCrone> it's gotta say "And you wouldn't have this tool if it wasn't for Dan Van Crone! WE LUFFORZ YOU DVC!!!111one"
<DanVanCrone> k?
<Delphy> okay
<DanVanCrone> BOOYA!
<Delphy> I'll forget becuase I know you will ;)

Consider this your reminder! \o/
And yes, this post is completely useless and is simply flagrant self-promotion. But hey, if I didn't promote myself who else would? :p

[Retroboy]

Aww... I'd promote you, Dansformer. Hugglez! :luff:

-- Retro (with a sigh under his breath for the things he's gotta do around here to keep everyone all wiggly with happiness...

[Spooky]

I should perhaps point out that the english.big is the only one of the big files that the SGAViewer cannot open! doh....so you may well want to wait for the demo. :)

[Delphy]

Okay well the HW2 extractor I just did reads english.big

But from what you guys have said it *wont* read the normal .big files....

I dont have the larger files, so I couldn't test it.

[muad'dib]

i was just going thrue the lines in the code and came across this

// speechevent_icdeadpeople
// FC
40710 The Critters are under attack.


looks like part of the impossible creatures code to me

[Spooky]

LOL :) Well code sharing makes sense - saves a lot of time. :)