[TOOL] Cope's DoW2 Toolbox - V1.991h released! [09/01/2012]

[Copernicus]

Okay, then let me do further research. I'll get back to you.

Edit: Okay, it is still a bit bugged when using Retribution. Putting it on my ToDo list.

[nathaniak]

I don't think this error is the tool itself, but in the mod. Retribution crashes whenever I try to start a mod. It does not crash when I run the game normally. Have tried it both using test mod function and adding launch parameters in steam. I've created three new mods and the same happens. I will re-download though, hopefully that will help

[Copernicus]

And the warnings.log doesn't provide any more information other than that the unique-check failed? That is kinda strange.

[nathaniak]

Think I know what it is. Don't worry, it's not you. It crashed when I tried to run it on just -dev.

EDIT
Yes, for some reason running it in -dev mode causes the error. Does not crash if I enter a launch parameter without -dev.

FINAL EDIT
I can get mods working if I put them into archives:

proof

[Copernicus]

Is it possible that you've got other files lying around that are accidentally being loaded when you run in -dev?

[nathaniak]

Can't see where they would come from. I haven't downloaded any other mods for Ret yet - this is the first change I have made. Pretty sure this at my end, so don't worry about it

[Copernicus]

@Promythyus:
I've hunted down some bugs that occurred when using the advanced debug mode w/ Retribution, the next version will include these fixes.

[Promythyus]

Awesome stuff, Thanks cope

[Gorb]

I'm going to be an ass and make a request . . . you have "Close Tab" and "Close All Tabs". Is there any chance of either (or both!) of the following features:

1. "X" button on the end of each window tab that closes the tab?

2. Middle mouse click closing the tab (like in most browsers and Steam chat)?

I would look into making alterations myself, unfortunately I'm only familiar with Java (this is done in C#?). Completely understand if it's a minor thing and your time is better spent doing other work

[Copernicus]

I'm taking requests, so don't hesitate to make your proposals (though I might reject them).
Miguel requested something similar some time ago and it is still on my Todo-list. As someone who always and exclusively uses CTRL+W to close tabs in browsers I never noticed that there other possibilities as well. I'll look into it.

C# is like Java but with Delegates (managed equivalent of Function pointers) and operator overloading. Java has nicer supports for enums though. And yes, the tool is written in C# . You can't add the feature yourself because the project is not an open project, although I'm happy to share the source code; I'd even be willing to make it all public (via GoogleCode, Assembla, GitHub or similar) but I actually don't believe there's anyone interested in co-developing it anyway and the effort of getting all this to work properly still scares me away.

[nathaniak]

Could you possibly edit the release mod function so that when you select the output location, it 'remembers' the location and you don't have to find it each time?

[Clonesa]

I would be very interested in the an open source tool :P

[Copernicus]

Okay, then I'll try to open it all up after the next update (which should btw be soon).

Edit:
v1.96 released
Download

V1.96 - 03/12/2011
General:
- you can now create folders in the tree view
- added hotkeys for copying/pasting files
- fixed bugs occurring when using the advanced debugging feature in Retribution
- 'Release mod' now remembers the last used output path

RBF-Editor:
- added auto-complete to comboboxes (it's still quite buggy, you need to activate it in the options)
- changed format of RBF-dictionary/RBF-library to XML, which is bigger in size but much easier to read as a human
- the tool will automatically convert the old format to the new format
- added tag-groups to the RBF-library (rbf_library_tags.xml)
- added a crawler which will go through all RBFs and try to extract values for the RBF dictionary

[stampeed]

Hi Cope,
Awsome tools, but I suspect I am being a derp as I keep getting this little number!

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Any help would be great.

[Clonesa]

Having no concept of the code of this tool of course I'd wager that to be a genuine bug as (from looking at your taskbar) you have no other applications that could be using that archive. If possible try restarting the tool before doing whatever it is that triggers the exception. Also try checking the task manager for any processes that could be using the archive that did not properly terminate.

@ cope: Ooooh, a crawler, should be pretty cool for Retribution's files.

[Gorb]

Yay, XML!

<3

[Copernicus]

@stampeed:
Works fine for me; please post your logfile.

@Gorb:
It's part of my Stop inventing silly new file formats, use XML campaign .

@Clonesa:
Next step is a crawler to create a RBFLibrary but this one would have to be much more sophisticated in its heuristics. But let's get the sources open first .

[Gorb]

Well they (Relic) use it in-house . . . I'm intrigued as to why they bother converting it to a binary format at all. Going on Pulse's comments about the RB2 format, I'm guessing for easier loading and perhaps parsing? Dunno, no idea how their engine does stuff (though arguably it'd be easier, albeit less safe, to build the engine from the ground up with the ability to parse/load XML data).

I know way, waaaaaaaay back in the day, in DoW I, modders could simply make the game load LUA files. Patch 1.3 (a while before I joined these forums) changed the acceptable format to their new RGD (Relic Game Data) format.

[Copernicus]

Binary files are smaller and way easier/faster to parse. It's just a matter of performance.

[Khorney]

which would be great for testing in -dev mode except that you need to pack everything into an rb2 in order to test it like that anyway >_<

[stampeed]

1 log file as requested!

15:32:22 - LoggingManager - Logging system set up successfully!
15:32:23 - ConfigManager - Setting up config system...
15:32:23 - ConfigManager - Config system set up successfully!
15:32:23 - Tool starting...
15:32:23 - ModManager - GameDirectory changed to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\dawn of war ii - retribution\
15:32:23 - Retribution mode enabled
15:32:23 - FE - Starting front end...
15:32:23 - FE - FileTree controls setup started
15:32:23 - FE - FileTree controls setup finished
15:32:23 - FE - Front end successfully started!
15:32:23 - PluginManager - Attempting to load plugins from plugins-folder C:\Users\Dan\Desktop\Copes\plugins\
15:32:23 - RBFPlugin - Setup started
15:32:23 - WARNING - RBFLib - Could not find RBF-Library tag groups file!
15:32:23 - RBFLib - Reading RBF-Library
15:32:23 - RBFDict - Reading RBF-Dictionary
15:32:25 - RBFPlugin - Setup finished
15:32:25 - PluginManager - Plugins successfully loaded!
15:32:25 - ModManager - Language set to English
15:32:25 - UCSManager - Initializing...
15:32:35 - ModManager - Loading module file C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\dawn of war ii - retribution\TemplarStorm.module
15:32:35 - ModManager - GameDirectory changed to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\dawn of war ii - retribution\
15:32:35 - Retribution mode enabled
15:32:36 - ModManager - Loading mod resources
15:32:38 - ModManager - Module file successfully loaded in 2.9640052 seconds
15:32:38 - FileManager - Filling file trees
15:32:43 - FileManager - File trees filled in 4.4928078 seconds
15:32:51 - ModManager - Trying to load the KeyProvider (FLB-file)
15:32:51 - ModManager - Successfully loaded KeyProvider from simulation\attrib\fieldnames.flb
15:32:51 - UCSManager - Trying to load UCS files...
15:32:51 - UCSManager - UCS file for current mod not found, will create a new one.
15:32:51 - UCSManager - UCS file for vanilla DoW2 found.
15:32:52 - UCSManager - Done loading UCS files!
15:33:02 - ModPacker - Releasing mod TemplarStorm into directory C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\dawn of war ii - retribution\
15:33:02 - ArchiveCreator - Starting archive.exe with -c -r "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\dawn of war ii - retribution\TemplarStorm\DataAttrib" -a "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\dawn of war ii - retribution\TemplarStorm\Archives\TemplarStorm_attrib.sga" -cf "TemplarStorm_attrib.sga_2011_03_13_15_33_02.sga_design" -log "TemplarStorm_attrib.sga_2011_03_13_15_33_02.log"
15:33:02 - ArchiveCreator - Starting archive.exe with -c -r "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\dawn of war ii - retribution\TemplarStorm\Data" -a "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\dawn of war ii - retribution\TemplarStorm\Archives\TemplarStorm_data.sga" -cf "TemplarStorm_data.sga_2011_03_13_15_33_02.sga_design" -log "TemplarStorm_data.sga_2011_03_13_15_33_02.log"
15:33:02 - ModPacker - waiting for packers to finish
15:33:03 - ModPacker - Successfully created archives for mod TemplarStorm
15:33:03 - ModPacker - Successfully generated module file for mod TemplarStorm
15:33:03 - ModPacker - Generating installation instructions for mod TemplarStorm
15:33:03 - ModPacker - Successfully created installation instructions for mod TemplarStorm
15:33:03 - ModPacker - Generating launcher for mod TemplarStorm
15:33:04 - ModPacker - Successfully created launcher for mod TemplarStorm
15:33:04 - ModPacker - Looking for additional archives...
15:33:04 - ERROR - ModPacker - failed to copy additional archives to output directory
15:33:04 - Exception Info
Type: IOException
Message: The process cannot access the file 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\dawn of war ii - retribution\TemplarStorm\Archives\GameAttrib_orig.sga' because it is being used by another process.
Exception source: mscorlib
Stack trace:
at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
at System.IO.File.InternalCopy(String sourceFileName, String destFileName, Boolean overwrite)
at System.IO.File.Copy(String sourceFileName, String destFileName, Boolean overwrite)
at ModTool.FE.ModReleaser.IncludeAdditionalArchives()

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[Copernicus]

Thank you, I'll investigate as soon as I'm done releasing the source code.

[stampeed]

Thanks Cope. Don't fancy starting from scratch every time I want to change something!

[Copernicus]

The source code is now available on GoogleCode. Drop me a line if you're interested in contributing. The Google code page is still lacking documentation etc. and parts of my personal framework are not yet included but should follow soon.
I'm not yet 100%-sure how all this will impact the further development but I'm confident that it'll improve the overall quality of the code and thus the tool; the frequency in which I released updates in the past on the other hand will certainly decrease.

[Chaos Godstone]

Originally posted by Gorb 'the cruel'
1. "X" button on the end of each window tab that closes the tab?

This method is used by Notepad++, Cope. It's also a setting that you can turn on and off.

I would help with the Toolbox's coding if I could find a relatively cheapish Teach Yourself 'every-bit-of' Visual Studio 2008, having some financial problems at the moment, my brother and Ebay, I'm landed with the bills. All Warhammer/W40K related purchases

I'm not exactly proficient and I've probably forgotten 50% of what I learned at college about Visual Basic/C++, not good. My last working project was a minor change to Doom 3 source allowing the Soulcube to be usable along with the Bloodstone Artifact of D3XP. I'm probably not up to your speed and understanding... ... and if I keep putting myself down, something I am good at, I'm going to be talking to you from a deep hole.

[Copernicus]

Notepad++ by the way also supports CTRL+W .

[Chaos Godstone]

Never tried that, just click the tick box so that the X button appears. A sort of fire and forget action on my part!

EDIT:
I've looked upon some of the source files, it's a bit like looking on a page of German and pronouncing correctly some of the words, if not the whole sentance, but not understanding what it says.

OR, more to my Mathematical-less-ness,

Being able to correctly write and present a long division all the way to completion and as for the sum of my troubles, ... the damn thing never works out correct! I've actually done this three times and been praised for it, I would ask myself why?

TL;DR, I can read the format and syntax but don't know what it says.

[Copernicus]

There's not a single German word in the whole sources .

[Chaos Godstone]

Ha ha.
Danke mein Freund, Ich sprache ...tiny bit of Deutsch. Best I can do off the top of my head, it's been years since school and I may not have spelt it correctly. My sister, who incidentaly has been to Germany, says that due to watching The Road To El'Dorado in all three languages I sound to use some Dutchness in my attempts.

[lukejackska]

hi cope, with DowToolbox 1.96 I have a matter loading the plugins, it's something like

"Could not load plugin ImageViewerPlugin, Version=1.0.0.0,
Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null: Impossible to load one or more called types, Try to recover the propriety LoaderExceptions."

also happen wit RBF Editor Plugin....

I've tryed to overwrite the plugins with their older versions(downloaded with olderToolBoxes)but seems occurring the same...
what I can do to edit my RBFs through your application?
PleazeHelpMe

Thanks, Luke

[Copernicus]

@lukejackska:
Could you please include the full log file?

@stampeed:
Still investigating, haven't found the bug yet .

[lukejackska]

here you have it:

04:30:02 - LoggingManager - Logging system set up successfully!
04:30:02 - ConfigManager - Setting up config system...
04:30:02 - ConfigManager - Config system set up successfully!
04:30:02 - Tool starting...
04:30:02 - FE - Starting front end...
04:30:02 - FE - FileTree controls setup started
04:30:02 - FE - FileTree controls setup finished
04:30:02 - FE - Front end successfully started!
04:30:02 - PluginManager - Attempting to load plugins from plugins-folder C:\Users\kvs\Desktop\DoW2_ToolBox_1.96\plugins\
04:30:02 - PluginManager - Could not load plugin!
04:30:02 - LoaderExceptions:
04:30:02 - Exception Info
Type: FileNotFoundException
Message: Impossibile caricare il file o l'assembly 'FreeImageNET, Version=3.13.1.1, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' o una delle relative dipendenze. Impossibile trovare il file specificato.
Exception source:
Stack trace:


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04:30:02 - Exception Info
Type: ReflectionTypeLoadException
Message: Impossibile caricare uno o più tipi richiesti. Per ulteriori informazioni, recuperare la proprietà LoaderExceptions.
Exception source: mscorlib
Stack trace:
in System.Reflection.RuntimeModule.GetTypes(RuntimeModule module)
in System.Reflection.RuntimeModule.GetTypes()
in System.Reflection.Assembly.GetTypes()
in ModTool.Core.PluginManager.LoadPlugin(Assembly assembly)

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04:30:03 - PluginManager - Could not load plugin!
04:30:03 - LoaderExceptions:
04:30:03 - Exception Info
Type: FileNotFoundException
Message: Impossibile caricare il file o l'assembly 'cope.IO, Version=1.0.3995.33839, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' o una delle relative dipendenze. Impossibile trovare il file specificato.
Exception source:
Stack trace:


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04:30:03 - Exception Info
Type: FileNotFoundException
Message: Impossibile caricare il file o l'assembly 'cope.IO, Version=1.0.3995.33839, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' o una delle relative dipendenze. Impossibile trovare il file specificato.
Exception source:
Stack trace:


No additonal data available.
No InnerExpcetion

04:30:03 - Exception Info
Type: ReflectionTypeLoadException
Message: Impossibile caricare uno o più tipi richiesti. Per ulteriori informazioni, recuperare la proprietà LoaderExceptions.
Exception source: mscorlib
Stack trace:
in System.Reflection.RuntimeModule.GetTypes(RuntimeModule module)
in System.Reflection.RuntimeModule.GetTypes()
in System.Reflection.Assembly.GetTypes()
in ModTool.Core.PluginManager.LoadPlugin(Assembly assembly)

No additonal data available.
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04:30:04 - RBFPlugin - Setup started
04:30:05 - RBFLib - Reading RBF-Library
04:30:05 - RBFDict - Reading RBF-Dictionary
04:30:05 - RBFPlugin - Setup finished
04:30:05 - PluginManager - Plugins successfully loaded!
04:30:05 - ModManager - Language set to English
04:30:05 - UCSManager - Initializing...

thanks for the look! this is the original one...

[Promythyus]

Awesome work on releasing the sources cope, even if I have absolutely no clue what any of it means. I'm just starting to learn C# and .Net at uni, hopefully by the end I'll be able to understand some of it anyway.

I was going to ask for something, but then I saw "ScarPlugin", and figured you already have it under control Great work!

[Reaper297]

Okay, So I took my first real venture into modding for Retribution and DoWII entirely. So I wen through and made a simple mod that changes the look of the pvp force commander by making him look like gabriel. So I set the accessories and saved the RBFs. Clicked Release Mod and let it do its work. So I set the launch details to be -dev -test "test" but the only thing that seems to happen is that Retribution crashes as soon as I start it up.
Here is my error log in case it is needed.

20:55:33.34 c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\dawn of war ii - retribution\DOW2.exe started at 2011-03-15 20:55
20:55:33.34 OS NT 6.0, 4087 MB Physical Memory, 1851 Mb Physical Available, 3350 Mb Virtual Available
20:55:33.34 RUN OPTIONS: -modname test -dev -test
20:55:33.34 WORKING DIR: 'c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\dawn of war ii - retribution'
20:55:33.34 USER: 'Aurora'
20:55:33.34 LOAD COMPLETE GlobalInit Core Systems 0.009
20:55:33.39 GAME -- Failed to find mod 'test'.
20:55:33.39 LOAD COMPLETE GlobalInit MOD & Filesystem 0.053
20:55:33.39 APP - Multi-threading Enabled
20:55:33.39 XTHREAD: Detected 8 core(s) with 8 hardware thread(s)
20:55:33.40 LOAD COMPLETE GlobalInit Init XThread 0.002
20:55:33.40 LOAD COMPLETE GlobalInit Render Window 0.000
20:55:33.40 LOAD COMPLETE GlobalInit Scene 0.000
20:55:33.40 LOAD COMPLETE GlobalInit Load Scheduler 0.000
20:55:33.40 LOAD COMPLETE GlobalInit FileLogger 0.000
20:55:33.40 LOAD COMPLETE GlobalInit Resource Tags 0.000
20:55:33.40 LOAD COMPLETE GlobalInit Unique Check 0.000
20:55:33.42 ParentalControls: Games Explorer found.
20:55:33.42 ParentalControls: Module found.
20:55:33.42 ParentalControls: IGameExplorer::VerifyAccess() call succeeded (0x00000001).
20:55:33.42 ParentalControls: access granted.
20:55:33.42 LOAD COMPLETE GlobalInit Parental Control 0.026
20:55:33.42 LOAD COMPLETE GlobalInit App Lua 0.000
20:55:33.42 LOAD COMPLETE GlobalInit Profile Manager 0.000
20:55:33.42 FILESYSTEM -- filepath failure, missing alias 'DATA:config\sysconfig.lua'
20:55:33.53 LOAD COMPLETE GlobalInit System Config 0.109
20:55:33.53 LOAD COMPLETE GlobalInit Relic Online Data 0.001
20:55:33.53 NetworkManager::Create - creating network manager
20:55:33.53 SteamService: region is US
20:55:33.53 Net::ThreadFunction - Entering network thread function...
20:55:33.53 MessageInternal::CreateChannel: Created channel GSTP
20:55:33.53 Session::Initialize - info, initializing session object, using threads.
20:55:33.53 Transport::Connection request to lan://255.255.255.255:6112
20:55:33.53 AutomatchInternal: Instantiating
20:55:33.53 PartyInternal: Instantiating
20:55:33.53 MessageInternal::CreateChannel: Created channel PRTY
20:55:33.53 MessageInternal::CreateChannel: Created channel QCKM
20:55:33.53 Session::Initialize - info, initializing session object, using threads.
20:55:33.53 Transport::Connection request to lan://255.255.255.255:6112

Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

[Copernicus]

@lukejackska:
That definitely is an outdated plugin. I'd recommend deleting the toolbox and then re-downloading the most recent version.

@Promythyus:
I'm not currently working on the ScarPlugin and currently it is just some syntax-highlighting. Originally it was a test to see how I could integrate WPFs in WinForms. Maybe I'll continue it later on but currently editing the files via Scite is much simpler.

@Reaper297:

20:55:33.34 RUN OPTIONS: -modname test -dev -test

Drop the last parameter, -test is no valid argument. Also, when you have already released your mod you don't need to use -dev. The tool packs all your files into SGA-archives and you only need to use -dev when you're planning to load non-archived data.

20:55:33.39 GAME -- Failed to find mod 'test'.

Apparently your mod is not named test. Navigate to your Retribution directory and check that your mods module file is present. If the module file has been created via my Toolbox, it'll have the same name as the mod. Otherwise open it in Notepad and look for the mod's name (name = <your mod's name>).

[Promythyus]

Fair enough, makes sense. Perhaps, maybe, then you could make it so that instead of displaying "Can't open the selected file blah, no suitable plugin found!", your tool opens the file in whatever windows uses as the default. If the file isn't extracted already, it also does that. Even better, it checks if the file is changed, and if not, it deletes it afterwards!

You get where I'm going with this, it would save me at least a bit of effort

[Copernicus]

I have thought about it and I always worried about extracting files which aren't used at all. It never occurred to me that I already do change-detection and that I can simply delete the file afterwards. Sort of a hacky solution but I'll put it on my todo list as an optional feature. Thanks for your input .

[lukejackska]

a first look let me though that all was working fine, but still remain a problem loading rbfeditorplugin.
I've tried whit miguel rbf editor, but the onli dll visible by the program is the your dll, and now the problem appears when trying to open an .rbf file, not at start like before(this with the new download).

Spoiler

19:58:09 - FE - failed to open file
19:58:09 - Exception Info
Type: CopeException
Message: Error launching plugin RBFPlugin.RBFEditorPlugin: Error while trying to read data in UniFile! See inner exception.
Exception source: CopeModToolCore
Stack trace:
in ModTool.Core.FileTypeManager.LaunchFromExt(String fileName, UniFile infile)
in ModTool.Core.FileManager.LoadFile(UniFile file, Boolean forceText)
in ModTool.FE.MainDialog.LoadFileFromTreeNode(TreeNode node, Boolean onlyVirtual, Boolean forceText)

No additonal data available.
InnerException following

19:58:09 - Exception Info
Type: CopeException
Message: Error while trying to read data in UniFile! See inner exception.
Exception source: cope
Stack trace:
in cope.IO.UniFile.ReadData()
in RBFPlugin.RBFEditor.LoadFile(UniFile file)
in RBFPlugin.RBFEditor..ctor(UniFile file)
in RBFPlugin.RBFEditorPlugin.LoadFile(UniFile file)
in ModTool.Core.FileTypeManager.LaunchFromExt(String fileName, UniFile infile)

No additonal data available.
InnerException following

19:58:09 - Exception Info
Type: CopeDoW2Exception
Message: Error while trying to read RBF data! See inner exception.
Exception source: cope.DawnOfWar2
Stack trace:
in cope.DawnOfWar2.RelicBinary.RelicBinaryFile.Read(Stream stream)
in cope.IO.UniFile.ReadData()

No additonal data available.
InnerException following

19:58:09 - Exception Info
Type: CopeDoW2Exception
Message: Trying to read RBF-file using a key provider but no key provider has been specified!
Exception source: cope.DawnOfWar2
Stack trace:
in cope.DawnOfWar2.RelicBinary.RelicBinaryFile.Read(Stream stream)

No additonal data available.
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19:58:25 - FileTypeManager - Error launching plugin RBFPlugin.RBFEditorPlugin
19:58:25 - Exception Info
Type: CopeException
Message: Error while trying to read data in UniFile! See inner exception.
Exception source: cope
Stack trace:
in cope.IO.UniFile.ReadData()
in RBFPlugin.RBFEditor.LoadFile(UniFile file)
in RBFPlugin.RBFEditor..ctor(UniFile file)
in RBFPlugin.RBFEditorPlugin.LoadFile(UniFile file)
in ModTool.Core.FileTypeManager.LaunchFromExt(String fileName, UniFile infile)

No additonal data available.
InnerException following

19:58:25 - Exception Info
Type: CopeDoW2Exception
Message: Error while trying to read RBF data! See inner exception.
Exception source: cope.DawnOfWar2
Stack trace:
in cope.DawnOfWar2.RelicBinary.RelicBinaryFile.Read(Stream stream)
in cope.IO.UniFile.ReadData()

No additonal data available.
InnerException following

19:58:25 - Exception Info
Type: CopeDoW2Exception
Message: Trying to read RBF-file using a key provider but no key provider has been specified!
Exception source: cope.DawnOfWar2
Stack trace:
in cope.DawnOfWar2.RelicBinary.RelicBinaryFile.Read(Stream stream)

No additonal data available.
No InnerExpcetion

19:58:25 - FE - failed to open file
19:58:25 - Exception Info
Type: CopeException
Message: Error launching plugin RBFPlugin.RBFEditorPlugin: Error while trying to read data in UniFile! See inner exception.
Exception source: CopeModToolCore
Stack trace:
in ModTool.Core.FileTypeManager.LaunchFromExt(String fileName, UniFile infile)
in ModTool.Core.FileManager.LoadFile(UniFile file, Boolean forceText)
in ModTool.FE.MainDialog.LoadFileFromTreeNode(TreeNode node, Boolean onlyVirtual, Boolean forceText)

No additonal data available.
InnerException following

19:58:25 - Exception Info
Type: CopeException
Message: Error while trying to read data in UniFile! See inner exception.
Exception source: cope
Stack trace:
in cope.IO.UniFile.ReadData()
in RBFPlugin.RBFEditor.LoadFile(UniFile file)
in RBFPlugin.RBFEditor..ctor(UniFile file)
in RBFPlugin.RBFEditorPlugin.LoadFile(UniFile file)
in ModTool.Core.FileTypeManager.LaunchFromExt(String fileName, UniFile infile)

No additonal data available.
InnerException following

19:58:25 - Exception Info
Type: CopeDoW2Exception
Message: Error while trying to read RBF data! See inner exception.
Exception source: cope.DawnOfWar2
Stack trace:
in cope.DawnOfWar2.RelicBinary.RelicBinaryFile.Read(Stream stream)
in cope.IO.UniFile.ReadData()

No additonal data available.
InnerException following

19:58:25 - Exception Info
Type: CopeDoW2Exception
Message: Trying to read RBF-file using a key provider but no key provider has been specified!
Exception source: cope.DawnOfWar2
Stack trace:
in cope.DawnOfWar2.RelicBinary.RelicBinaryFile.Read(Stream stream)

No additonal data available.
No InnerExpcetion

[Chaos Godstone]

I have thought about it and I always worried about extracting files which aren't used at all. It never occurred to me that I already do change-detection and that I can simply delete the file afterwards. Sort of a hacky solution but I'll put it on my todo list as an optional feature. Thanks for your input .

Based on this ^

@Copernicus
I was thinking that if the tool was to directly open an .rbf extracted from Retribution's .rb2 or direct from the .sga the editor could show an rbf view with all extensions available but in the aegis of Relics optimisations only the edited rbf extensions would be written to the edited file. The rbf view would be showing a virtual .rbf, so to speak.

*after-thought*
Your Toolbox might already do this with regular .rbf's in DoW2/CR... hmm.

and this ^

I come humbly to fall upon bended knee before you my Magos and Servicer of His Will and place before you an idea of such witless wonder.

Your Toolbox could show each opened .rbf populated with all extensions available relative to the type and usage of the .rbf Ebps, Sbps, Wargear, etc, perhaps distinguishing between extensions already used in the file and those usable and using your change-detection in the aegis of Relics optimisations only the edited rbf extensions would be written to the edited file.

A bit of shameless re-wording of former ideas from your just-above-Servitor-worthy and dutifully bugging Engineseer.

[Reaper297]

So I dropped the -dev and -test part in the launch shortcut. But when I opened up the module all the names were correct. I tried again and while the game loaded up it didn't load up my mod.

I'm thinking I shall restart and try again. Perhaps I messed something up in the creation process.

I shall report back whether or not I'm successful.


Edit 1: Okay so I just created another mod and before releasing it I ran the test option and the game crashed asking me if I wanted to send an error report. Chose the release option as well and tried that and still nothing. Nothing had been edited either. I know it can't be a framework issue as I have .NetFramework 4. So at this point I'm at a loss for what the issue could be.

[General Kong]

i am encountering the same problem as Reaper

[Gorb]

I've been able to test my modification thoroughly which indicates either our system access permissions (read/write to the relevant folders) is different, and/or your modifications simply aren't setup correctly (or are otherwise corrupted or making changes the game can't accomodate).

[Copernicus]

@lukejackska:
Please post the full log. It seems like you're either trying to edit a Retribution RBF without having the FLB file or you're trying to edit a non-Retribution RBF but activated Retribution mode for the RBF editor. Try disabling it in the Options of the RBF-plugin.

@ChaosGodstone:
Currently that's difficult to do and before I start making the RBF-editor more complex I'm looking into completely rewriting it. The current code is like ancient and anything new will only make it worse. I'm not sure when/if I'm going to do it but a rewrite it definitely necessary.

@Reaper297:
Please post your warnings.log and the toolbox logfile.

@GeneralKong:
Please post your warnings.log and the toolbox logfile.

[General Kong]

heres my log file

Spoiler

20:39:23 - LoggingManager - Logging system set up successfully!
20:39:23 - ConfigManager - Setting up config system...
20:39:23 - ConfigManager - Config system set up successfully!
20:39:23 - Tool starting...
20:39:23 - ModManager - GameDirectory changed to F:\Program Files2\Steam\SteamApps\common\dawn of war ii - retribution\GameAssets\Archives\
20:39:23 - Retribution mode enabled
20:39:23 - FE - Starting front end...
20:39:23 - FE - FileTree controls setup started
20:39:23 - FE - FileTree controls setup finished
20:39:23 - FE - Front end successfully started!
20:39:23 - PluginManager - Attempting to load plugins from plugins-folder C:\Users\A1\Downloads\plugins\
20:39:23 - RBFPlugin - Setup started
20:39:23 - WARNING - RBFLib - Could not find RBF-Library tag groups file!
20:39:23 - RBFLib - Reading RBF-Library
20:39:23 - RBFDict - Reading RBF-Dictionary
20:39:23 - RBFPlugin - Setup finished
20:39:23 - PluginManager - Plugins successfully loaded!
20:39:23 - ModManager - Language set to English
20:39:23 - UCSManager - Initializing...
20:40:40 - ModManager - Closing current mod (if any is loaded)
20:40:40 - FileManager - Releasing file trees
20:40:40 - UCSManager - UCS file is empty, nothing to save.
20:40:40 - ModManager - Manual GarbageCollection in all generations in progess...
20:40:40 - ModManager - Loading SGA file F:\Program Files2\Steam\SteamApps\common\dawn of war ii - retribution\GameAssets\Mods\ig_vandis_arctic.sga
20:40:40 - ModManager - SGA file successfully loaded in 0.0156 seconds
20:40:40 - FileManager - Filling file trees
20:40:40 - FileManager - File trees filled in 0.0156 seconds
20:40:40 - ModManager - Trying to load the KeyProvider (FLB-file)
20:40:42 - WARNING - ModManager - Failed to load FLB-file from path simulation\attrib\fieldnames.flb
20:40:49 - RBFLib - Writing RBF-Library
20:40:49 - RBFDict - Writing RBF-Dictionary
20:40:49 - ModManager - Closing current mod (if any is loaded)
20:40:49 - FileManager - Releasing file trees
20:40:49 - UCSManager - UCS file is empty, nothing to save.
20:40:49 - ModManager - Manual GarbageCollection in all generations in progess...
20:40:49 - Application shutting down

where do i look for the warning.log file?

[Copernicus]

<UserPath>\My Games\Dawn of War ii - Retribution\Logfiles. Is this the toolbox logfile for when you open your mod? If it is, then your mod is no mod but an SGA archive.

[Wizardofnoz]

This is my log from what looks to be a straight forward crash.

19:29:10 - LoggingManager - Logging system set up successfully!
19:29:10 - ConfigManager - Setting up config system...
19:29:10 - ConfigManager - Config system set up successfully!
19:29:10 - Tool starting...
19:29:10 - Could not determine last used path, setting it to default path.
19:29:10 - Trying to get Steam path from the registry
19:29:10 - ModManager - GameDirectory changed to c:/program files (x86)/steam\steamapps\common\dawn of war ii - retribution\
19:29:10 - Retribution mode enabled
19:29:10 - FE - Starting front end...
19:29:10 - FE - FileTree controls setup started
19:29:10 - FE - FileTree controls setup finished
19:29:10 - FE - Front end successfully started!
19:29:10 - PluginManager - Attempting to load plugins from plugins-folder C:\Program Files (x86)\DoW II Mod Tools\Copes Toolbox\plugins\
19:29:10 - RBFPlugin - Setup started
19:29:10 - WARNING - RBFLib - Could not find RBF-Library tag groups file!
19:29:10 - WARNING - RBFLib - Could not find RBF-Library
19:29:10 - RBFLib - Reading RBF-Library (legacy)
19:29:10 - WARNING - RBFDict - Could not find RBF-Dictionary
19:29:10 - RBFDict - Reading RBF-Dictionary (legacy)
19:29:10 - RBFPlugin - Setup finished
19:29:10 - PluginManager - Plugins successfully loaded!
19:29:10 - No DoW2 language found, setting it to default (English)
19:29:10 - ModManager - Language set to English
19:29:10 - UCSManager - Initializing...
19:29:41 - ModCreator - Creating new mod...
19:29:41 - ModCreator - Generating module file for new mod
19:29:41 - ERROR - APPCRASH
19:29:41 - PlugIns in use:
ImageViewerPlugin.ImageViewerPlugin, ImageViewerPlugin, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null - ImageViewerPlugin.ImageViewerPlugin
ImageViewerPlugin.ImageViewerPlugin, ImageViewerPlugin, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null - ImageViewerPlugin.ImageViewerPlugin
RBFPlugin.RBFEditorPlugin, RBFEditorPlugin, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null - RBFPlugin.RBFEditorPlugin

19:29:41 - Mod info:
No mod loaded
19:29:41 - Exception Info
		Type: CopeException
		Message: Failed/extract to open GameAttrib.sga!
		Exception source: CopeModToolDoW2
		Stack trace: 
   at ModTool.FE.ModCreator.RepackAttribArchive(String filePath)
   at ModTool.FE.ModCreator.WriteMod()
   at ModTool.FE.MainDialog.<>c__DisplayClass6.<NewDoW2ModToolStripMenuItemClick>b__2(Object x)
   at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart_Context(Object state)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean ignoreSyncCtx)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
   at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart(Object obj)

		No additonal data available.
		InnerException following

19:29:41 - Exception Info
		Type: UnauthorizedAccessException
		Message: Access to the path 'C:\Program Files (x86)\DoW II Mod Tools\Copes Toolbox\temp\simulation\attrib' is denied.
		Exception source: mscorlib
		Stack trace: 
   at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
   at System.IO.Directory.InternalCreateDirectory(String fullPath, String path, Object dirSecurityObj)
   at System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(String path)
   at ModTool.FE.ModCreator.RepackAttribArchive(String filePath)

		No additonal data available.
		No InnerExpcetion

19:29:41 - END OF APPCRASH INFO

Do you need any other information?

[General Kong]

alright heres my warning.log file

Spoiler

19:12:58.22 -- DOW2 Warnings Log --
19:12:58.22 f:\program files2\steam\steamapps\common\dawn of war ii - retribution\DOW2.exe started at 2011-03-17 19:12
19:12:58.22 OS NT 6.0, 2558 MB Physical Memory, 1923 Mb Physical Available, 2341 Mb Virtual Available
19:12:58.22 RUN OPTIONS: -dev
19:12:58.22 WORKING DIR: 'f:\program files2\steam\steamapps\common\dawn of war ii - retribution'
19:12:58.22 USER: 'A1'
19:12:58.22 LOAD COMPLETE GlobalInit Core Systems 0.016
19:12:58.30 MOD -- Initializing mod 'DOW2', version '3.12', locale 'english'.
19:12:58.33 LOAD COMPLETE GlobalInit MOD & Filesystem 0.109
19:12:58.33 APP - Multi-threading Enabled
19:12:58.33 XTHREAD: Detected 2 core(s) with 2 hardware thread(s)
19:12:58.33 LOAD COMPLETE GlobalInit Init XThread 0.000
19:12:58.33 LOAD COMPLETE GlobalInit Render Window 0.000
19:12:58.33 LOAD COMPLETE GlobalInit Scene 0.000
19:12:58.33 LOAD COMPLETE GlobalInit Load Scheduler 0.000
19:12:58.33 LOAD COMPLETE GlobalInit FileLogger 0.000
19:12:58.33 LOAD COMPLETE GlobalInit Resource Tags 0.000
19:12:58.33 LOAD COMPLETE GlobalInit Unique Check 0.000
19:12:58.34 ParentalControls: Games Explorer found.
19:12:58.34 ParentalControls: Module found.
19:12:58.34 ParentalControls: IGameExplorer::VerifyAccess() call succeeded (0x00000001).
19:12:58.34 ParentalControls: access granted.
19:12:58.36 LOAD COMPLETE GlobalInit Parental Control 0.031
19:12:58.36 LOAD COMPLETE GlobalInit App Lua 0.000
19:12:58.36 LOAD COMPLETE GlobalInit Profile Manager 0.000
19:12:58.47 LOAD COMPLETE GlobalInit System Config 0.110
19:12:58.47 LOAD COMPLETE GlobalInit Relic Online Data 0.000
19:12:58.47 NetworkManager::Create - creating network manager
19:12:58.47 SteamService: region is IE
19:12:58.47 Net::ThreadFunction - Entering network thread function...
19:12:58.47 MessageInternal::CreateChannel: Created channel GSTP
19:12:58.47 Session::Initialize - info, initializing session object, using threads.
19:12:58.47 Transport::Connection request to lan://255.255.255.255:6112
19:12:58.47 AutomatchInternal: Instantiating
19:12:58.47 PartyInternal: Instantiating
19:12:58.47 MessageInternal::CreateChannel: Created channel PRTY
19:12:58.47 MessageInternal::CreateChannel: Created channel QCKM
19:12:58.47 Session::Initialize - info, initializing session object, using threads.
19:12:58.47 Transport::Connection request to lan://255.255.255.255:6112
19:12:58.47 LOAD COMPLETE GlobalInit NetworkGlobal 0.000
19:12:58.47 LOAD MANAGER END << GlobalInit >> 0.266
19:12:58.47 GAME -- Dawn of War 2, EXE Version: 3.13, Build 5955
19:12:58.47 LOAD MANAGER BEGIN << LoadDevicesInit >>
19:12:58.47 LOAD COMPLETE LoadDevicesInit System Tests 0.000
19:12:58.47 LOAD COMPLETE LoadDevicesInit Load/Save Config Settings 0.000
19:12:59.22 LOAD COMPLETE LoadDevicesInit Command DB 0.748
19:12:59.23 Detected Device Vendor:0x10DE DeviceID:0x0611, Product:0x0008, Version:0x0011, Subversion:0x000C, Build:5896
19:12:59.30 ShaderDatabase : shader [DATA:Shaders\TERRAINOVERLAY.SHADER] specifies an undefined inputlayout terrainbasemesh.
19:12:59.30 VIDEO -- Driver Name = nvd3dum.dll Desc = NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
19:12:59.30 VIDEO -- Driver Vendor = 0x10DE Device = 0x0611 SubSys = 0x040110B0 Rev = 0x00A2
19:12:59.30 VIDEO -- Driver Version Product = 0x0008 Version = 0x0011 SubVersion = 0x000C Build = 0x1708 (5896)
19:12:59.30 VIDEO -- Driver GUID = {D7B71E3E-4551-11CF-0864-0D241CC2C535}
19:13:01.59 VIDEO -- Detected Display Video Memory [1522 MB]
19:13:01.59 VIDEO -- 64bit OS Detected
19:13:01.59 VIDEO - NVIDIA card version [65552], memory, dedicated [512 MB], system [0 MB], shared [1023 MB]
19:13:01.59 VIDEO -- Dedicated Video Memory [512 MB]
19:13:01.59 VIDEO -- Graphics Card Memory [512 MB] Texture Memory Available [1502 MB].
19:13:01.59 RTREF - Creating RenderTarget <worldscene render target>
19:13:01.59 RTREF - Found Reservation
19:13:01.59 RTREF - Creating RenderTarget <depth pre-pass render target>
19:13:01.59 RTREF - Found Reservation
19:13:01.59 RTREF - Creating RenderTargetTexture worldscene render target texture
19:13:01.59 RTREF - Found RTT Reservation
19:13:01.59 RTREF - Creating RenderTargetTexture post process bright pass texture
19:13:01.59 RTREF - Found RTT Reservation
19:13:01.59 RTREF - Creating RenderTargetTexture depth pre-pass render target texture
19:13:01.59 RTREF - Found RTT Reservation
19:13:01.59 VIDEO - Using shader profile 'sm3'

and yes i found the log i posted earlier in the toolbox files

[Copernicus]

@Wizardofnoz:
Do you run the Toolbox as administrator? If not, give it a try.

@GeneralKong:
I don't seem to understand your problem: You give me a toolbox log which does not log any mod-loading/creation at all. Now you have posted a warnings.log which clearly indicates that you're not trying to load a mod at all (at least not properly):

19:12:58.22 RUN OPTIONS: -dev
19:12:58.30 MOD -- Initializing mod 'DOW2', version '3.12', locale 'english'.

Again, are you really sure that these are the right logfiles?

[Wizardofnoz]

*facepalm*

Thanks Copernicus....

*goes away feeling like a total tool*

[Copernicus]

Did that do the trick? It's basically the first thing you should do when getting unexpected access-denial messages .