Armstrongs newbie Qs

[dmakatra]

Hi! IÂ've downloaded a turtorial and in the begining there where a list of tools that you need to make this addon the turtorial is about. IÂ've downloaded them all (or similar tools that makes the same thing).

Quote from turtorial:

You should have unpack-sqm installed somewhere on your hard drive.

It should be a tool, but I canÂ't find it, anyone who knowes the name of it?

[dmakatra]

I have checked all my downloads and the tool depot again, and I saw the situation more clearly(IÂ've downloaded half of all tools on one day, I canÂ'even remember what tools I own! ):

When I was on my way downloading Umpack-SQM, it was written that it had lots of bugs, so I should download the OFPmanager instead.

I did.

But I didnÂ't understand, (EDIT) used it, I tried to open the help file but it didnÂ't seem to be one, I moved my p3d file to the operation falshpoint addons, cause it started with OFP in the tree, but I couldnÂ't open the addon with the program. I donÂ't understand that tool, or there is a bug.

Then I put the whole thing beside of my and did another turtorial, and when I came back, well, here we are.

[Tomb]

screw "unpack", m8, the TUT you read has not been updated  

unpack wuz used to decrypt ofp stuff back in the days of concept5 but now we
have a bunch of better tools, so forget the unpack  

[dmakatra]

What tool should I download then?

[Skaven]

Yes indeed, the tutorial is nice the same, but forget the unpack thing and use the DePbo tool from Amalfi on the Data3D.pbo , you probably downloaded it, it will do the same job  

[Tomb]

uuum, well... depends on what it is ya wanna unpack, duuh!   ;D ( j/k )


The thing called "PBO Decryptor 1.5" (yes, Amalfi's) is a good tool to unpack encrypted PBO files.

And the "OFP Manager" is basically just a tool used to read BIN files
(and you can convert them to .cpp files).

PPL use it mostly to create config.cpp's outta config.bin's  

But as most orig. OFP config stuff is already out & converted, I wouldn't neccesarily
recommend ya to grab the manager unless you had a specific reason to use it.

(messing around with programs which can read/alter BIN files is NOT a good idea.)


Then grab the "Stuff PBO" tool to re-pack (back to PBO.) your addons once they're ready.

Try the "editors depot" and search for "ADDON TOOLS" or alike  


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[mod.]

oh, ellöw skav.   using broad band are we! ( bah! )   ;D

[Skaven]

Yes I ment the PBO Decryptor 1.5 from Amalfi sorry for my mistake  ;D
Just skip the unpack part and unpbo the file whith this tool instead  

TOMB at the moment I'm at the place where I work with a dedicated Server  ;D

[dmakatra]

Wait a bit. I think I am one step ahead of what you think I am. I have allready UnPBOed the data3d.pbo. Then I took out a specific p3d file to make an addon, now I want to convert the p3d to scm.

Bigger qoute from turtorial:

Right, now that we have our 2 folders up we can see that the Data3d folder contains files with the file extension ‘p3d'. These are your 3d files which will tell us what images are required for that model. In the Data folder we have 2 different file extensions ‘paa' & ‘pac'. These are your image files which you will be editing (you can't edit them yet as we will need to convert them in to tga first, this will be explained later).

For the Civilian model, we are going to choose the p3d file named           ‘mc Civil.p3d'. Make your own directory and name it whatever you like. But in the tutorial we will call it ‘Edited Civil'.

You should have unpack-sqm installed somewhere on your hard drive. Place the ‘mc civil.p3d' in to the ‘unpack-sqm' directory and rename it to ‘mission.sqm', then dbl-click on unpack-sqm.exe. Now give the programme some time to work it's magic as it can take well over a minute. Once it has completed a new file will have been created, ‘mission.txt'. Rename this file to what ever your p3d was called, in this case we used ‘mc civil.p3d' so we rename it to this. If it asks are you sure you want to change it, click yes.

[Skaven]

no no skip that last part the PBO Decryptor 1.5 does the unpbo part and the unpacking too, so skip the last part, just jump like this:  

This part is ok:  

 Right, now that we have our 2 folders up we can see that the Data3d folder contains files with the file extension ‘p3d'. These are your 3d files which will tell us what images are required for that model. In the Data folder we have 2 different file extensions ‘paa' & ‘pac'. These are your image files which you will be editing (you can't edit them yet as we will need to convert them in to tga first, this will be explained later).

So far so good  

Now the rest you've wrote forget it, just keep on after the  ... , click yes.  ;D

[dmakatra]

Ok, thx.

You saved my ass again Skaven!

Thx yo too Tomb.

[dmakatra]

Oh, I canÂ't forget the classic!

*Topic solved and locked*

Perhaps I shall renew it?

Like this?

*Topic solved and locked*

[Skaven]

well it would be better to just keep this thread opened, something tells me your gonna ask a lot more questions, so we better leave this one open so you can continue asking here, just in case  
Sefe kills me if you open a new thread everytime you have a question  ;D

[dmakatra]

Sure! ItÂ's gonna be a whole bunch!

[dmakatra]

Just gonna change the name.

[dmakatra]

Ok, if everything works now, I am gonna have a new skin in my editor.

Hold ya tumbs everyone!