I started but haven't done much yet, it's pretty complex.
Format seems similar to the last one: http://wiki.xentax.com/index.php/Settle ... _An_Empire

Don't know if the encryption routines changed though.

Don't think so, if you are lucky it has been reverse engineered in some project like ffmpeg. Seems like there one was a description about EA's in-house audio library but it has gone. If you find it, tell me. http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=Electronic_Arts I think EA's tool SoundXchange sup...

hmm doesn't JaederNaub do that job?!

First problem might be caused by using the wrong encoding.
Second one, no clue atm.

You already found the site with the most advanced (at least to my knowledge) Granny import tool:


If it doesn't work anymore, there's not much you can do, I think that guy doesn't maintain the tool anymore.

Works like a charm

But you might be able to extract the graphics if they are embedded into the exe with some resource hacker or by hand.

Woohoo thanks a lot!
Did you find it out by disassembling or just with the file?

Thanks for trying.
I just found some source code using QMixer, sheds some light on the structures and parameters used!

http://svn.gna.org/svn/warzone/tags/1.1 ... d/qmixer.h

Yeah an EA in-house audio library is used. As I pointed out here it uses some kind of EA format without a proper header and with an unknown codec number. Could be Microtalk 1:10 because of the .m10 file extension, but some tests with Sound eXchange (adding a proper header and converting) didn't yiel...

Yeah but you somehow have to hand over your sound data to QSound, if I find the function where this is done, I maybe also find the function that decodes it before that.

I try to find out where the audio files in Beasts & Bumpkins are decoded.
Maybe it could be helpful to know which functions are used in QSound to play back a sound.
Is anybody familiar with the QSound API?

Guess the only way is to reverse engineer the codec
But it's really hard to find the place where they are decoded, any suggestions?
(QSound is used, maybe that gives a hint?)

Mix.dat and reflect.dat are lookup tables for reflection etc.
The images use palettes stored in the main game executable.
Unfortunately I still don't know the RLE algorithm

Thanks for that
Artists normally don't have much insights into code internals though.
Yeah, we finally found the code for de-/compression, we "just" need to misuse the exe as a dll for our purposes
Pretty interesting, but yet complicated task.