Magairlín Posted September 21, 2020 Share Posted September 21, 2020 👋 What's currently the best way to extract a bin file for editing? PiggViewer gives me something sort of human-readable but with a lot of special characters sprinkled around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Philotic Knight Posted September 21, 2020 Author Share Posted September 21, 2020 That's the Holy Grail @Black Orchid II. There's supposed to be a way to do it by "hacking" the mapserver executable, and I think either @Sif and/or @RubyRed might have accomplished this task, but as I recall, those efforts were limited to the purposes of their specific applications. My "dream" is a WinZip-type application that can take a .bin file and spit out a .def file, but from my understanding, that would be a monumental task, and the developers that are more skilled than I am don't appear to think that such a tool is worth their time to create. I disagree, and believe that it would benefit the community greatly, but I can see where it would be a maintenance NIGHTMARE. And I unfortunately am not a skilled enough programmer to figure it out for myself. Believe me, I started looking into the relevant sections of code and went cross-eyed. So many structures within structures and references to references... 😢 City of Players - Tools for the "City of" Player Force Fields Tweaks: FF Buffs With Cottage Rule Intact Force Field Set Redesign Without Cottage Rule Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magairlín Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 That's what I was afraid of, anything involving compression is beyond me, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Philotic Knight Posted September 23, 2020 Author Share Posted September 23, 2020 On 9/22/2020 at 10:00 AM, Black Orchid II said: That's what I was afraid of, anything involving compression is beyond me, too. Beyond me too my friend. Once you start talking about bits and bytes and streams and such, that's WAY past my level of programming ability, sadly. City of Players - Tools for the "City of" Player Force Fields Tweaks: FF Buffs With Cottage Rule Intact Force Field Set Redesign Without Cottage Rule Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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