🛈 Announcement
Greetings! Far Cry forums are now archived and accessible in read-only mode, please go to the new platform to discuss the game.
  1. #21
    Originally Posted by Janne252 Go to original post
    RazorFinnish has had great success with decompressing osasis_strings but so far the operation back to compressed format has been an issue.
    I even started working on an editor, implemented a simple browser first..

    Spoiler:  Show



    You're such a tease!




    Originally Posted by razorfinnish Go to original post
    Decompression yes; getting it back together breaks it however... Weirdly enough, my own tool can load the original, save the thing, then load it again without problems, but FC4 itself fails at loading the changed files. Guess I'm going to get that fixed at some point though.
    Oh, nice.. I mean, about the decompressing part... I'm sure you'll figure out the other direction soon enough.

    Personally though, I just wanted to decompress it so I could read all the loading-screen tips. (Sometimes having fast hardware has its downside.. since assets are loaded and time on the loading screen is so short I don't have time to read some of them)

    So basically, if I were to, lets say... find a download link to an already decompressed/converted-to-human-readable-text file, I would be very grateful to the person that had provided said link...
    Share this post

  2. #22
    We'll let you know if we manage to find a link.
    Share this post

  3. #23
    Originally Posted by Janne252 Go to original post
    We'll let you know if we manage to find a link.
    Thank You!

    I will personally see to it that 2 Goats and 3 Chickens are sacrificed in your honor!
    Share this post

  4. #24
    Originally Posted by StabbysUPAcct Go to original post
    Thank You!

    I will personally see to it that 2 Goats and 3 Chickens are sacrificed in your honor!
    Better be *the* goat, if you know what I mean.
    Share this post

  5. #25
    Ok... so thats where they were hiding...

    Code:
    ...
    <string enum="0x6A9715DF" id="69985" value="HOLD [LeaveVehicle] Exit" />
    <string enum="0xA1A9603D" id="148015" value="[Parachute] Parachute" />
    <string enum="0x17AF7952" id="161020" value="HOLD [Interact] Push" />
    <string enum="0x24064614" id="167636" value="[Reload] Normal arrow" />
    <string enum="0xCC8CBD23" id="201054" value="HOLD [Interact] Enter" />
    <string enum="0xD07D72A9" id="201065" value="HOLD [Interact] Mounted gun" />
    <string enum="0xFBAE8D5D" id="241282" value="HOLD [TakeDown] Move body" />
    <string enum="0x11EE55C9" id="241283" value="[TakeDown] Drop body" />
    <string enum="0xCBB00564" id="249596" value="[Reload] Cancel arrow" />
    <string enum="0xF35C880D" id="279383" value="HOLD [TakeDown] Move    HOLD [Loot] Search" />
    <string enum="0x16E82810" id="319502" value="HOLD [MoveBodies] Move" />
    ...
    I am (and probably many others are) suddenly VERY interested in being able to recompress and reimport an edited version of this file now.
    Share this post

  6. #26
    Originally Posted by StabbysUPAcct Go to original post
    Ok... so thats where they were hiding...

    Code:
    ...
    <string enum="0x6A9715DF" id="69985" value="HOLD [LeaveVehicle] Exit" />
    <string enum="0xA1A9603D" id="148015" value="[Parachute] Parachute" />
    <string enum="0x17AF7952" id="161020" value="HOLD [Interact] Push" />
    <string enum="0x24064614" id="167636" value="[Reload] Normal arrow" />
    <string enum="0xCC8CBD23" id="201054" value="HOLD [Interact] Enter" />
    <string enum="0xD07D72A9" id="201065" value="HOLD [Interact] Mounted gun" />
    <string enum="0xFBAE8D5D" id="241282" value="HOLD [TakeDown] Move body" />
    <string enum="0x11EE55C9" id="241283" value="[TakeDown] Drop body" />
    <string enum="0xCBB00564" id="249596" value="[Reload] Cancel arrow" />
    <string enum="0xF35C880D" id="279383" value="HOLD [TakeDown] Move    HOLD [Loot] Search" />
    <string enum="0x16E82810" id="319502" value="HOLD [MoveBodies] Move" />
    ...
    I am (and probably many others are) suddenly VERY interested in being able to recompress and reimport an edited version of this file now.
    What would that help? These are not keybindings, of course. Just the text displayed on screen.
    Share this post

  7. #27
    Originally Posted by Janne252 Go to original post
    Just the text displayed on screen.
    Exactly!! Sitting there... on screen, just glaring at you, as if you somehow forgot how to Enter or Exit a vehicle after 100+ hours of the game.

    Or... in the case of the Glider, throbbing/pulsing/glaring/laughing at you while you try to ignore it.

    In essence, this is exactly what I want to target. (unless it can just not be called in the the first place, by nulling the id that the file calling it is using)
    Either way.. those things are going down!
    Share this post

  8. #28
    Originally Posted by StabbysUPAcct Go to original post
    Exactly!! Sitting there... on screen, just glaring at you, as if you somehow forgot how to Enter or Exit a vehicle after 100+ hours of the game.

    Or... in the case of the Glider, throbbing/pulsing/glaring/laughing at you while you try to ignore it.

    In essence, this is exactly what I want to target. (unless it can just not be called in the the first place, by nulling the id that the file calling it is using)
    Either way.. those things are going down!
    Well I didn't think of it like that. That's a definitive way to get rid of the tutorial overlays.
    Spoiler:  Show

    By the way, do you happen to know how to exit a vehicle?
    Share this post

  9. #29
    Originally Posted by StabbysUPAcct Go to original post
    Exactly!! Sitting there... on screen, just glaring at you, as if you somehow forgot how to Enter or Exit a vehicle after 100+ hours of the game.

    Or... in the case of the Glider, throbbing/pulsing/glaring/laughing at you while you try to ignore it.

    In essence, this is exactly what I want to target. (unless it can just not be called in the the first place, by nulling the id that the file calling it is using)
    Either way.. those things are going down!
    Please sir, I beg of you... make the mods that does the impossible, the dream... of removing these f***!@# prompts from the game!!! And don't forget arrows... yes game, I KNOW i need to press R to return to regular arrows. You've told me this a million times... that'll do pig, that'll do.
    Share this post

  10. #30
    Flanker1Six's Avatar Senior Member
    Join Date
    Aug 2013
    Location
    US
    Posts
    2,125
    I reviewed the CBO.exe info on this page: http://fc4modding.janne252.com/index...ea=misc#post_4.

    When you say: "However; you might have to use the command line option -b=".ark.fcb" when using the binary converter in order to correctly convert the entity archetypes back to .fcb format." What command line are you referring to? Where is it located? TY!

    I was checking out the properties for the CBO.exe, and I see there is a compatibility option (which I'm not currently using) for Win 8 (I'm Win 8.1 64 bit) on the CBO.exe properties compatibility tab. I'll give that a whirl and see if it helps.
    Share this post