PboDll - The ultimate BI file handling suite

[kju]

What is it?

PboDll is the project name and the engine for Eliteness and the Dos Tools.

Eliteness is the application recommended for the user preferring the standard GUI interaction.
The Dos Tools offer great flexibility and power. They can be used via the windows cmd shell or shell extensions.

• Very fast and universal.
• Works for OFP, OFPE, ArmA I and ArmA II.
• Works on XP, Vista and Win7.
• Extract pbos, pack pbos.

• Transform configs, rvmat, mission.sqm file into the engine binary format (rapify)
  and convert it from binary to human readable (deRapify).
• Can do different sorts of syntax and logic error (lint check).
• Extract the model.cfg from any p3d.
• Check the file format version of a file and output various useful basic information
  (DeFXY, DeP3d, DePac, DeRtm, DeWrp).
• Convert Wrp and P3d files from one engine format to another.
• Rename file paths easily inside PBO, Wrp, P3d and rvmats. Very powerful tool.

Not to mention to handle well all the crazy user specific file system setups and preprocessor tweaks.

Here you can find all the currently available tools for download:
http://dev-heaven.net/projects/list_files/mikero-pbodll


Who made it?

Largely coded by mikero. Along with many excellent contributions by the community.
Mikero is well known for his long time community work at OFPEC and various projects.
He is also one of the major authors in the BIKI of the file format descriptions.

Contact:
http://dev-heaven.net/wiki/mikero-pbodll


How can You contribute?

Here is another key aspect. Mikero is highly welcoming all types of contribution to the project.
The core idea of the DePbo module is to solve challenges once and share the functionality to anyone freely.
Even more coders are encouraged to check the c++ source, reviewing the code to improve it, suggest
new functionality or even became part of the project and help out in coding.

At the same time user feedback of all sorts is always very welcome.
Got a problem? Do not understand a detail? Want to suggest new functionality?

Feel free to visit the PboDll project site and share your thoughts and ideas.

Enjoy.  

[h-]

Corrected those links of yours as most of them didn't work..

[kju]

Thanks. I assume the quotes were the prob?
 

[h-]

Something like that yes, they had

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http://="http://blahblah"inside the tags so it didn't work, at least in FF all I got was "Webpage http not found", or something..

[kju]

Thanks to Mikero more outstanding tools are available.


Convert OFP world files to ArmA / ArmA II
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OFP world editors and old school terrain fans rejoice.

ConvertWRP makes it possible to easily convert an OFP WRP file,
both OPRW (binarized) and 4WVR (not binarized) to an ArmA PEW.

The pipeline is simple and very fast.


Convert WRP back to Visitor3 editable PEW format
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It happens from time to time that people loose their source PEW
due to hardware failure or other reasons.

ConvertWRP allows one to easily convert an ArmA or ArmA II WPR file,
both OPRW (binarized) and 8WVR (not binarized) to an ArmA PEW.

Be sure to respect the copyright of BI and community made worlds.
To release someone else's hard work you must get permission to do so!


Create object template PEWs
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To be able to place objects in Visitor 3 one has to import and define
objects first in a very cumbersome and tiring way. Not so any longer!

CreatePewObjects can create easily a PEW from a source text file
definition that contains all object definitions of your preference.

Even more it can extract definitions from existing PEW files or remove
all/partial definitions from a PEW file to stop buldozer defining
the actual objects in the WRP and therefore effectively mass removing
objects.


Feedback
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All tools are still in development. Your testing and feedback is
very welcome. Please visit the PboDll project space and leave your thoughts.

 

[kju]

Convert Visitor3 editable PEW to WRP format
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To covert a PEW to 8WVR in Visitor is a tedious act.
Especially if you need to do this many times.

ConvertWRP is now able to easily convert an ArmA PEW file,
to an ArmA 8WVR (not binarized) WRP in a matter of seconds.


Linux compatible tool set in development
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Killswitch is reworking the source currently to make the dll and
the command line tools usable in a Linux environment.
This is great news for people with a dedicated build environment,
as most of the time these are running on a Linux box.


Feedback
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As always your testing and feedback is very welcome.
Please visit the PboDll project space and leave your thoughts.