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Title: Pariah ukx files
Post by: dany25 on February 08, 2009, 15:23

hello,

:o GREAT WORK :o for unreal 2 animations that work perfectly for Land of the Dead THANKS.
I have another request for another unreal game engine Pariah.
When i test to load some ukx from this game i have this error:

***ERROR: ReadNameTable

I uploaded some files here:

http://fastfreeupload.com/download.php?file=642Pariah.zip

Title: Re: Pariah ukx files
Post by: Gildor on February 08, 2009, 16:49

Currently I'm working on UE3 support (still cannot find enough free time to implement UT3 SkeletalMesh loader). Other games have lower priority.
I already have all required Pariah files :)

Title: Re: Pariah ukx files
Post by: Gildor on March 20, 2009, 17:18

I have checked Pariah code. I will not support this game, because Digital Extreme's programmers have modified almost all the basic structures of the game data for obfuscation (I'm sure: they have done this not for any kind of optimization or better code, but to complicate data analysis). I don't want to disfigure umodel code to just support one middling game title.

Following text I was posted for people familiar with Unreal Engine code, even with UT1 public source.

Small example: serialization of FCoords structure:
original code looks like this:

Code:

friend FArchive& operator<<(FArchive &Ar, FCoords &F)
{
  return Ar << F.Origin << F.XAxis << F.YAxis << F.ZAxis;
}

Pariah code looks like this:

Code:

friend FArchive& operator<<(FArchive &Ar, FCoords &F)
{
  if (!Ar.RetailArchive())
    return Ar << F.Origin << F.XAxis << F.YAxis << F.ZAxis; // original Epic code
  else
    return Ar << F.XAxis << F.YAxis << F.ZAxis << F.Origin; // obfuscated code
}

As you can see, they have changed field serialization order for retail archives!

Another example. TArray serialization. Their code looks like this:

Code:

template<class T> FArchive& operator<<(FArchive &Ar, TArray<T> &A)
{
  if (Ar.IsLoading())
  {
    // loading array
    int count;
    Ar << AR_INDEX(count);
    if (Ar.RetailArchive()) count--; // de-obfuscate count
    A.Empty(count);
    A.Add(count);
  }
  else
  {
    // saving array
    int count = A.Num();
    if (Ar.RetailArchive()) count++; // obfuscate count
    Ar << AR_INDEX(count);
  }
  // serialize data (using real data count)
  for (int i = 0; i < A.Num(); i++)
    Ar << A[i];
}

Here we can see, that number of elements in archive written to the file greater by 1 than the real number of elements.

Whole serialization code flooded with similar code. I think, this game it is not worth the trouble.

Title: Re: Pariah ukx files
Post by: esr911 on March 20, 2009, 21:28

You know Gildor, Like you said, you can't support every game. If people really really want assets from this game they can always use 3D Ripper DX, 3DVIA Printscreen, GameAssassin or extract the models as obj.

3D Ripper DX - http://www.deep-shadows.com/hax/3DRipperDX.htm

3DVIA Printscreen - http://www.3dvia.com/pros/3DVIA_PrintScreen/

GameAssassin - (Warning it is in Chinese, use Google was used to translate) http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://gameassassin.com/downloads.htm&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

This just means that you have more time to work on something else ;D

Thanks for letting us know for sure.
..:: ESR ::..

Title: Re: Pariah ukx files
Post by: Gildor on June 24, 2009, 15:53

Just found that Warpath uses the same engine as Pariah.

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