Far Cry Primal models

[daemon1]

I have good news and bad news.

Bad news is I found a mistake in my unpacker, so many files were unpacked a little wrong. It usually concerned a few bytes in the end, so it shouldn't affect models convertion. But to be safe, you have to unpack the whole game again.

Also I think you'll need not-compressed files anyway, so I'll update the tool soon. The low mip of blue goats were not compressed, and 40kbytes in size. Yet small models are all compressed. So the game decides whether compress the file or not based on its compression level, not size.

Good news is that I corrected oasis converter so now it converts both FC4 and FCP files.

[volfin]

I'm not familiar with the Oasis converter. what is that?

[bouvrie]

I'm not familiar with the Oasis converter. what is that?

oasisstrings.bin, basically the dialog text in the game.

@daemon1 awesome work you're doing! The game contains a poo-load of files, it's quite something to make sense of, modding-wise. Luckily, there's a lot of overlap with Far Cry 4!

[daemon1]

Oasis converter for Far Cry Primal.

There are some tricks in making this work. The tool code had lots of unneeded complications. This is why I don't like messing with other people's code. So I'm trying to make it as easy as possible to me. You will need to do some manual work.

How to use it:

1. Convert BIN to XML as usual
2. Find line with 0xAEE923DE code and delete it. (This new format somehow has 1 section without lines in it. This is causing the old tool to fail. Maybe it's needed or something, then I'll have to find a way to handle it.)
3. Make changes you need
4. Convert file back to BIN
5. Add "table_fcp" table to the end of the file (This can be done in any hex editor or commander tool, or with command line such as "copy /b oasis.bin + table_fcp oasiswithtable.bin")
6. Pack oasis file into FAT/DAT with my packer tool.

Important note. Patch.fat/dat is loaded before patch_sound.fat/dat so you have to find some other package to replace text, or remove old file from patch. I did this by finding the file hash in patch.fat and changing it. The hash is (F3 F8 E3 5D 29 FD BD F2) for english file. Changing any byte here will "mask" the file so game won't find it.

[daemon1]

The version for FC4. Same usage.

[daemon1]

And latest packer/unpacker.

- No changes to packer.
- Packer now correctly unpacks ALL files, including 1-byte sectors, and there are MANY of them, beware!

Included additional xml file with only 1 name for english oasis. Unpacker will use all xml files present in directory, so you can add your names if you find any.

[volfin]

i'll try this new unpacker and make sure it doesn't harm the model importer. If all is good I guess I will start breaking ground on a model exporter. I think I have a nearly complete understanding of this format, enough I can pull that off. I will do my best at any rate.

[volfin]

the original unpacker came with a file named primal_main.xml, but this version doesn't have that file. And seems it outputs no filenames, only hash names?

[daemon1]

that file is big, there was no need to reupload it. Add old xml file to get names.

[bouvrie]

that file is big, there was no need to reupload it. Add old xml file to get names.

For people wondering where that XML is at, see here. But you already know, right Fino?

[Fino]

that file is big, there was no need to reupload it. Add old xml file to get names.

For people wondering where that XML is at, see here. But you already know, right Fino?

Heya, I am new here in this forum

To the quote, no I wasnt wondering where it is. I just saw the names.xml in this existent one and added all lines from primal_main.dvs

But in another forum someone told me I should have a look here, since here is a tool for extracting the archives from FarCry Primal.
I was creating an own tool too until I saw yours now, daemon1. I dont even have an exe file, just my raw python script - but with a GUI

Now I was wondering, if I could maybe use your existent tools and create a GUI for it?
I am asking this, because my script for decrompressing the dat/fat files has a bug, which could create corrupted files... and tbh because you allready made a tool for this, there is no need anymore for me to fix or create a new one

Cheers, Fino

EDIT:
btw, your tool works like a charm - good work!

[Andrakann]

5. Add "table_fcp" table to the end of the file (This can be done in any hex editor or commander tool, or with command line such as "fc/b oasis.bin + table_fcp oasiswithtable.bin")

"fc/b oasis.bin + table_fcp oasiswithtable.bin" - it's for file comparing, not merging, and it thinks "+" symbol is file...

Upd: I googled it out, right command is: "copy/b oasis.bin +table_fcp oasiswithtable.bin"

[tpcrew]

And latest packer/unpacker.

- No changes to packer.
- Packer now correctly unpacks ALL files, including 1-byte sectors, and there are MANY of them, beware!

Included additional xml file with only 1 name for english oasis. Unpacker will use all xml files present in directory, so you can add your names if you find any.

Hi, amazing work!

Thx

[daemon1]

Upd: I googled it out, right command is: "copy/b oasis.bin +table_fcp oasiswithtable.bin"

ok, corrected

Now I was wondering, if I could maybe use your existent tools and create a GUI for it?

yes you can.

[daemon1]

Alright, I think that's enough for now. Can be better to have dictionary as plain text, and add more names, so maybe later if I will have time. Enjoy the tools.

Also I didn't mention that oasis file will be probably changed again in next patch, and you need to get the new table from the end of original file...