oh i see now... that would be a great idea but would require writing a more complex tool though i don't know C# or know the FCL very well and a tool written using my native platform sdk to browse data would take me a few thousand lines of code. i haven't written an actual windows program in years :D...

ok, i modified some unknown small texture in the bigfile and the game ran and didn't complain.
so this is what imma going to do....

pick a texture and i will try to move it to the end of the bigfile.003.tiger by changing all the links that refer to it. is there a zlib compressor anywhere?

lemme try modding a texture right now... lets see how kind crystal dynamics wuz to us.

about reinjecting textures, scan bigfiles for pcd9. if i recall some were uncompressed. if number afiter pcd9 is 15 it is abrg 32-bit. if changes show, it works. backup files b4 tryin though.

that can be done i see what i can do.

btw anyone want to work on the model format? ill only work on it if no one else wants to do it. me lazy lol.

hahahahahahahahahahaha for that i would have to copy the data ekey... do you know how long it takes to copy 1.8 million files ?

yeah always look for an 0x?8 followed by some number and then run this test. usually it's almost always 0x78 but sometimes i've seen 0x58. bool isZLIB(uint08 b1, uint08 b2) { // first byte check if(b1 == 0x18) ; else if(b1 == 0x28) ; else if(b1 == 0x38) ; else if(b1 == 0x48) ; else if(b1 == 0x58) ; ...

because if i copied all the files it would be 100 GB; there is massive data sharing. some CDRM sections are referred to by the file table over 1000 times :D. what i'd like to know is that there's 180,000 + CDRM chunks, but only 6,000 some names? are MUL files archives with shared CDRM chunks? in the...

can you tell me a filename of a symlink for a mesh file i missed. previous games used 0x3c05 for meshes and i got all those. there maybe a new mesh type. also give name of audio file and i will write program that just renames files.

ok, get me that error code; as i am on x86, not x64. that file is indeed 495 bytes so looks like it's working just the CreateSymbolicLink function is failing for some odd reason, and that error code would help me out.

also, if anybody else run it and it works (or doesn't work), let me know .

what system are you on? if i recall right symbolic links work on vista or higher, but the api is available on XP. do you have the "4/symbolic_links" directory present? also, if you are running it a second time and already have a symbolic_links directory, delete the symbolic_links directory...

Unpacker for PC version. http://www.sticklove.com/content/tr9unpack.7z Instructions: 1. Copy tiger files into a new, empty directory. It is very important that this directory be initially empty (see photo below). 2. Place ripper.exe and zlib1.dll in this directory as well. 3. Run ripper.exe. 4. Go s...

heres the problem... files are not referenced by names. some of laras textures are shared amoung the various versions of her models. when processing a mesh, youll see like a number, 17. what texture is that and what directory is it in? stages also use the same tree, light, and statue models. given m...

lol you guys want an unpacker that unpacks everything but generates 180,000 files + 1.8 million symoblic links with no filenames :D? at least the data in the 5,491 symbolic link directories appear to be organized... man this is crazy, there are some files that are linked to over 1,000 times, which k...

ekey, if you don't mind me asking, how did you get the filenames? did you peek in the exe or did you grab them from the second section of the first bigfile (the sections that have items that start with 0x16 can have a list of strings in between the file offsets and size data, but i parsed all the st...