First of all, KUDOS to all your hard work on the extractor, decompressor, and umodel programs. Very nifty, very nice!
I'm working on Transformers: War for Cybertron on the PC. I've used the umodel program with great success, thank you for updating it to play nice with TF:WFC files.
The general problem with the game is that the PC version is missing things, particularly support for the things that were pre-order features or things eventually released as DLC on the XBox and PS3. The PC includes rudimentary but either incomplete or dummy versions of meshes and other details of the characters, and none of the extra maps.
There is a strong effort to resolve this, and the progress that has been made happened only because of your hard work in creating the tools we're using.
I'm looking to further this research, and I've hit a wall. You probably know where I'm going with this... the XBox 360 files. But wait! It may not be so bad.
Umodel actually works with the XBox360 files, at least when using
-list, as long as you specify
-game=trans. If you do just
-list, you get hit with this error:
Found 127 game files (6823 skipped)
******** TR_Megatron_ROBODEF_p.xxx ********
*** ERROR: Serialized FString is not null-terminated
FString<< <- FPackageFileSummary<<:Ver=511/144 <- UnPackage::UnPackage:TR_Megatron_ROBODEF_p.xxx, game=8000 <- UnPackage::LoadPackage:TR_Megatron_ROBODEF_p.xxx <- Main
But, if you also use
-game=trans, it works just fine.
Now, while doing further research, I wanted to inspect the individual files within the 360 .xxx files. I thought the extractor would work for this, since it does indeed work with the PC version's files.
However, trying it got me this error:
******** TR_Megatron_ROBODEF_p.xxx ********
*** ERROR: Serialized FString is not null-terminated
FString<< <- FPackageFileSummary<<:Ver=511/144 <- UnPackage::UnPackage:TR_Megatron_ROBODEF_p.xxx, game=8000 <- Main
...and now I'm stuck.
However...
It occurred to me that perhaps whatever override switch umodel uses, perhaps that can be applied to extractor? I noticed
-game=trans seems to set "Game: 8017" and the error on the extractor says "game=8000". There seems to be no way to override that setting.
- A. Is it possible to add a -game=XXXX switch to extractor?
- B. Would this help anything?
- C. Is there any other info I can provide to assist you?
Again, thank you so much for your help. Even if you don't want to put the time into something like this, or if it's not even possible or wouldn't help anyways, I still very much appreciate what you've done.
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