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| 1 | +Changes in xoreos-tools version 0.0.6 |
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| 3 | + |
| 4 | +This release of the xoreos-tools package features nine new tools: |
| 5 | +unobb, untws, rim, keybif, tws, fixnwn2xml, xml2gff, fev2xml and ncsdecomp. |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | +The first two new tools, unobb and untws, are new archive unpackers. unobb |
| 8 | +extracts "obb" files found in Aspyr's Android and iOS ports of the BioWare |
| 9 | +games, which can be either plain ZIP files or, more interesting, a virtual |
| 10 | +filesystem. untws extracts save files from The Witcher. |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | +The next three tools, rim, keybif and tws are archive packers. rim is the |
| 13 | +counterpart to unrim, creating RIM archives. keybif is the counterpart to |
| 14 | +unkeybif, creating KEY/BIF archives (and lzma-compressed KEY/BZF archives found |
| 15 | +in Aspyr's mobile ports). However, V1.1 files for The Witcher are not yet |
| 16 | +supported. And lastly, tws, is the counterpart to the new untws tool, creating |
| 17 | +save files for The Witcher. |
| 18 | + |
| 19 | +Next up, fixnwn2xml takes the non-standard XML files in NWN2 and turns them into |
| 20 | +valid, standards-compliant XML files. |
| 21 | + |
| 22 | +xml2gff is the counterpart to gff2xml, taking an XML file and turning it back |
| 23 | +into a GFF. Only GFF3 (GFF V3.2/V3.3) are supported for now, so neither Sonic |
| 24 | +nor the Dragon Age games (which use GFF V4.0/V4.1) are supported at the moment. |
| 25 | + |
| 26 | +Another work-in-progress tool is fev2xml, which reads the FMOD event file format |
| 27 | +FEV and creates a human-readable XML file. Only the FEV1 version is supported |
| 28 | +and only a fraction of its features at that. |
| 29 | + |
| 30 | +Likewise, ncsdecomp is the start of an NWScript bytecode compiler, built on the |
| 31 | +foundations of our NWScript bytecode disassembler. It's highly experimental and |
| 32 | +we give no guarantees that it works correctly at all. |
| 33 | + |
| 34 | +In addition to these new tools, there are some new minor features and bugfixes: |
| 35 | +- unerf can now extract ERF V2.1 |
| 36 | +- erf can now create ERF V2.0 and V2.2 |
| 37 | +- xoreostex2tga now supports animated TPCs and swizzled Xbox SBMs |
| 38 | +- gff2xml now supports SAC files and big-endian GFF4s |
| 39 | +- tlk2xml now supports big-endian GFF4s |
| 40 | +- The character encoding matrix for Jade Empire is now correct |
| 41 | + |
| 42 | +In an attempt to modernize a bit, xoreos-tools now requires a C++11-capable |
| 43 | +compiler. This should hopefully not be a huge problem. |
| 44 | + |
| 45 | + |
1 | 46 | Changes in xoreos-tools version 0.0.5 |
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