Atlantica online

[chrrox]

Can anyone de swizzle the atlantica online dds files?
This would be a great find as the models of this game are in .nif format and can be viewed with nifskope or imported into max.


Edit* I just saw pixle's thread so if this is not allowed please delete this.

[zardalu]

I'm no good at programming, but I was able to convert most of these using a batchfile I wrote for use with Hex Editor XVI32.

Basically, I just replaced the first part of each atlantica .dds file with the first bytes of a corresponding size/shape normal .dds file and I can open them all ok.

For example here's the Hex Editor XVI32 script I used for the 512x512 342 kb .dds files:

ADR 0
OVERWRITE 44 44 53 20 7C 00 00 00 07 10 02 00 00 02 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00

some of the mip maps are messed up, but that's easy to fix.

I copied all the monster dds files into a directory on my c drive called c:\atex\monster, then created a windows batchfile to convert all the dds files:

XVI32.exe JAGWARRIORF3_MAP01.dds /S=C:\ATEX\MONSTER\SCRIPT342.xsc
XVI32.exe REMODELMANF3_MAP01.dds /S=C:\ATEX\MONSTER\SCRIPT342.xsc
XVI32.exe REMODELMANF3_MAP00.dds /S=C:\ATEX\MONSTER\SCRIPT342.xsc
XVI32.exe REMODELMANF2_MAP01.dds /S=C:\ATEX\MONSTER\SCRIPT342.xsc
XVI32.exe REMODELMANF2_MAP00.dds /S=C:\ATEX\MONSTER\SCRIPT342.xsc
XVI32.exe REMODELMANF1_MAP01.dds /S=C:\ATEX\MONSTER\SCRIPT342.xsc
XVI32.exe REMODELMANF1_MAP00.dds /S=C:\ATEX\MONSTER\SCRIPT342.xsc
XVI32.exe REMODELMANB1_MAP01.dds /S=C:\ATEX\MONSTER\SCRIPT342.xsc
XVI32.exe REMODELMANB1_MAP00.dds /S=C:\ATEX\MONSTER\SCRIPT342.xsc
XVI32.exe LEECHESF2_MAP00.dds /S=C:\ATEX\MONSTER\SCRIPT342.xsc
XVI32.exe LEECHESF1_MAP01.dds /S=C:\ATEX\MONSTER\SCRIPT342.xsc
XVI32.exe RATMANF2_MAP00.dds /S=C:\ATEX\MONSTER\SCRIPT342.xsc, etc, etc,

Sigh, this is why I should've stayed in school and learned to write a proper program

[chrrox]

cool thanks a million trying it now
edit it works perfectly

I will attempt to build a converter in vb it should not be to hard.

[zardalu]

Cool, glad we're getting somewhere. Here are all the hex codes I used in the scripts and the file sizes I used them on. Some of the smaller ones are giving me trouble, I think it has something to do with wether the image is square or rectangular, and like I said the mip maps are messed up on some of them, at least in nifskope, but I'd say at least 90% of them are working:

1366kb .dds 1024x1024
44 44 53 20 7C 00 00 00 07 10 02 00 00 04 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0B 00 00 00


613kb .dds 512x512
44 44 53 20 7C 00 00 00 07 10 0A 00 00 04 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 0B 00 00 00


513kb .dds
44 44 53 20 7C 00 00 00 07 10 08 00 00 02 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00


342kb
44 44 53 20 7C 00 00 00 07 10 02 00 00 02 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00


257kb
44 44 53 20 7C 00 00 00 07 10 08 00 00 02 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00


171kb
44 44 53 20 7C 00 00 00 07 10 0A 00 00 02 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00


129kb
44 44 53 20 7C 00 00 00 07 10 08 00 80 00 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00


86kb
44 44 53 20 7C 00 00 00 07 10 02 00 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 09 00 00 00


65kb
44 44 53 20 7C 00 00 00 07 10 08 00 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00


43kb
44 44 53 20 7C 00 00 00 07 10 0A 00 80 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 09 00 00 00


33kb
44 44 53 20 7C 00 00 00 07 10 08 00 80 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00


22kb
44 44 53 20 7C 00 00 00 07 10 0A 00 80 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 00


11kb
44 44 53 20 7C 00 00 00 07 10 0A 00 80 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 00


6kb
44 44 53 20 7C 00 00 00 07 10 0A 00 40 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 07 00 00 00


3kb
44 44 53 20 7C 00 00 00 07 10 0A 00 80 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 00

[pixellegolas]

i totally missed this thread, i thought i searched for it before posting im on a holiday break but want to try it out later on

[citizenx]

I am trying to work with the .nif's and .dds' in this game but seem to be running into issues when trying to render. What I was hoping to do was export the models to resized gif's using 3D Max. Issues seem to be that I can get the body textures but the head texture is missing (or sometimes no textures at all). Anyone have any further work on this games models? I appreciate what has already been done as it has helped me get this far.

Thank You

[chrrox]

just re apply the textures.

[citizenx]

http://atlantica.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:N ... dissection

Some good information if anyone wants to look.

Thank You

[chrrox]

What file are you trying to view?
if you post the file I can look at it I have extracted 99% of the files from this game with no problem.

[citizenx]

I appreciate the offer chrrox, but what I am attempting to do is a bit ambitious in that I want to be able to manipulate (import to 3D Max) all the Monster / NPC "wait" animation and export them to a .gif format.

Thank You

[Kilandor]

I will very soon try to post up a tool that will autmatically convert all the DDS for you. Or, allow input maybe for a specific one.

[citizenx]

Kilandor, That would be great!

Thank You

[Yorick]

I've created a Python program that will convert these .DDS files, and tested it on a copy of my game folder. Works great. Some Korean filenames made the "file has been converted" output unhappy, so now I don't output the filename for those. Feel free to teach this thing Korean though.

It is clever enough to not touch regular DDS files or ones that have already been converted.
It also does a basic sanity check on values - doesn't mean it'll catch itself if NDOORS ever changes the encode, but it might be able to tell you "not touching that one", depending on how the encode's changed.

This will need Python 3.x, I've used 3.01.

It's pretty self-explanatory - here's the usage screen:

This program will convert Atlantica Online .dds files to regular .dds files
by de-obfuscating the header.
It will in the process overwrite the original source file. DO NOT run this
on your original game files, use a copy.

This program's options are:

ndoordds.py [-rsvh] [--recursive|silent|verbose|help] filename(s)...

-r Recurse into subdirectories, change all .dds files found within
Use that one carefully

[pixellegolas]

thanks for the converting tool!

[chrrox]

if anyone needs to know how to use this script it is C:\Python30>python.exe ndoordds.py -r C:\nDoors\Atlantica
if everything is installed in its default locations.