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Posted: **Fri Jun 15, 2018 12:32 pm**

Hey, despite the fact that five years have passed since the last post of post about Argo Online viewtopic.php?f=16&t=6393, I wanted to recognize the other files of this game. I took out my dusty disk with the Russian client of the game and installed it.
I found many useful scripts for bones, 3d models, textures and animations here, which still work. But now I have stopped on maps. It's not about "3D / 2D models", but I don't know where to write.

1) Folder .. \ Resources \ World \ mortalis ("mortalisWorld" in the archive below)
First I tried to get a map from the points that could be represented by float bytes from the *.xRaw file with the title "TERRAIN HEIGTH MAP", but the program gave it:

The normal map *.tnm with the title "TERRAIN NORMAL MAP" looks like an image, but I do not know how the map data is stored and I can not extract it.

The EXTRACTED folder contains the texture files * .dds and * .ptobj (I think this is the game engine data) from the internal folder archives that I got using a simple script
(UPD: The script didn't handle the names correctly. I modified the script from chrrox for the *.tbl2 file to *.tbl files):

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#quickbms script 
#ARGO 

open FDDE tbl 1 
get idName long 1
get archiveSize long 1
get someValue long 1 #???
get filesNumber long 1

goto 0x004018 1 

for i = 0 < filesNumber
    get null long 1
    get offset long 1
    get zsize long 1
    get arcnum long 1 
    get name string 1 
    print "%arcnum%" 
        set NAME1 string "file" 
    set MYEXT string arcnum 
    strlen MYEXTSZ MYEXT 
    if MYEXTSZ == 1 
        string NAME1 += "00" 
    endif 
    if MYEXTSZ == 2 
        string NAME1 += "0" 
    endif 
    if MYEXTSZ == 3 
        string NAME1 += "" 
    endif 
    string NAME1 += MYEXT 
    string NAME1 += .data 
    open FDSE NAME1 0 

    Padding 4 1 

	log name offset zsize

2) The folder .. \ resources \ world \ mortalis ("mortalis world" in the archive below), which I got using the chrrox script
The celldata folder contains five file types: Empty *.cei, *.cma, *.cta, and similar to *.xRaw: *.coh, *.cth.
And also other files that make up the map.
3) The folder .. \ resources \ ui \ texture contains mortalismini.dds. Perhaps it will be necessary too.

My goal is to recreate the map of the game so that I can work with it.
I hope for any help (scripts, advices or tutorials)

Here is the link to the archive: http://www.mediafire.com/file/2ygv3jqs1 ... rtalis.zip

Posted: **Tue Jun 19, 2018 3:37 pm**

Hi man , i'm interested in this game too but can't find a working link.
Do you have download link for this game?

Posted: **Tue Jun 19, 2018 9:50 pm**

Drawing wrote:Hi man , i'm interested in this game too but can't find a working link.
Do you have download link for this game?

I'm a girl

I already wrote that I have a CD with this game (this was an attachment to the game magazine in 2011). There are no working links for downloading on the network. But you can download it from me: http://www.mediafire.com/file/wosc494l2 ... Online.zip
P.S. It will be great if you understand something about it, because I'm a noob.
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About progress:
The first 18 bytes is the header, then there are 8 (4 + 4) bytes the number of vertices of width (513) and height (also 513). This gives 26 bytes of meta information in any * .xRaw file. The total number of bytes (1052702) minus meta information (26) gives the number of z vertices (1052676 = 513 * 513 * 4 byte float).

Then I wrote a script to import xRaw into Obj for Blender (Thx to viewtopic.php?f=10&t=15453, because I didn't know Python before):

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import struct

filePath = "C:\Onga\ArgoOnline\Resources\World\mortalis\mortalis.xRaw"
with open(filePath, "rb") as bin:
	
	bin.seek(0)
	header = struct.unpack("<BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB", bin.read(18))[0]
	print(header)
	output = '# TERRAIN \n'
	width  = struct.unpack("<I", bin.read(4))[0]
	height = struct.unpack("<I", bin.read(4))[0]

	for x in range(height):
		for y in range(width):
			unk = struct.unpack("<f", bin.read(4))
			output = output + "v %f %f %f\n" % (float(y*1000), float(x*1000), unk[0]*1000)
			y += 1
		x += 1
	f = open(r"C:\Users\PC\Desktop\output.txt", "w")
	f.write(output)
	f.close()

And it works (the texture has a similar picture):

Remarks:
1) For a correct display you need to invert z (or just flip).
2) Some maps have an empty header and the number of vertices. Then to get the width and height need subtract 26 from the total number of bytes, divide by 4 and take the root of the resulting number (all maps have the form of a square). This should work.

I still can not understand why the normal map also consists of floating values as an object

Wherever I looked, the normal map was a picture.

Posted: **Wed Jun 20, 2018 4:11 am**

Exse wrote:... gives the number of z vertices...Then I wrote a script to import xRaw into Obj for Blender

Not quite sure why you're doing it this way. But regarding that there's such a topic: Understanding Maps/Terrain, I guess you're trying to do the same process there as reverse engineering the geometry/model from a height map?

Exse wrote:I still can not understand why the normal map also consists of floating values as an object

Not surprisingly, as colors can also be represented by floats as percentages.

nm.jpg

Posted: **Wed Jun 20, 2018 6:52 am**

Bigchillghost wrote: Not quite sure why you're doing it this way. But regarding that there's such a topic: Understanding Maps/Terrain, I guess you're trying to do the same process there as reverse engineering the geometry/model from a height map?

Yes, I also gave this link in this message.
I want to be able to use all of the resources that are in the game, and I started with maps.

Bigchillghost wrote: Not surprisingly, as colors can also represented by floats as percentages.

Ok, I didn't understand how the colors are stored before, thanks.

Posted: **Wed Jun 20, 2018 7:36 am**

Exse wrote: Yes, I also gave this link in this message.

Yeah it's from your message actually.

Exse wrote:I want to be able to use all of the resources that are in the game, and I started with maps.

You know the word "map" sometimes can really be confusing, coz you don't know whether it's referring to a 3D or a 2D concept. But according to that topic you discovered, it's pretty much clear now.
However there's still one thing I don't understand. Why are there some vertices missing in your pics? If you view it from the z axis, it should looks like a plane full of points, shouldn't it?

Posted: **Wed Jun 20, 2018 8:18 am**

Bigchillghost wrote: However there's still one thing I don't understand. Why are there some vertices missing in your pics? If you view it from the z axis, it should looks like a plane full of points, shouldn't it?

I just made a screenshot in the perspective projection, so the points are distorted. Look at the y axis (the green arrow), it is tilted.

Exse wrote:

Posted: **Wed Jun 20, 2018 8:43 am**

No, I mean the empty rectangular area inside the map square. There're still some vertices connecting the two point planes that're visible even you're from a perspective view.

Posted: **Wed Jun 20, 2018 10:09 am**

Bigchillghost wrote:No, I mean the empty rectangular area inside the map square. There're still some vertices connecting the two point planes that're visible even you're from a perspective view.

There begins a great height for the mountains (a jump from 0 to 50 000 per 1 square), which is probably the reason that the distortion is so great (I multiplied heights by 1000). The vertices connecting the central rectangle to the right and left have only about 5000.

Posted: **Thu Jun 21, 2018 9:37 pm**

I have some questions:
1) The height map has 513 vertices in width and 513 in height, the normal map is also 513 * 513. But the number of pixels should be less than the number of vertices in width and in height by 1 (512 * 512), is not it?
2) I tried to add faces to my script, but I get this error every time.

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importing obj "C: \ Users \ PC \ Desktop \ mmm.obj"
        parsing obj file "C: \ Users \ PC \ Desktop \ mmm.obj" ... 10.3129 sec
        loading materials and images ...
        building geometry ...
        verts: 263169 faces: 261633 materials: 1 smoothgroups: 0 ...
Traceback (most recent last call last):
  File "C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Blender Foundation \ Blender \ .blender \ scripts \ import_obj.py", line 1191, in load_obj_ui
    POLYGROUPS.val
  File "C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Blender Foundation \ Blender \ .blender \ scripts \ import_obj.py", line 956, in load_obj
    create_mesh (scn, new_objects, has_ngons, CREATE_FGONS, CREATE_EDGES, verts_loc_split, verts_tex, faces_split, unique_materials_split, unique_material_images, unique_smooth_groups, vertex_groups, dataname)
  File "C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Blender Foundation \ Blender \ .blender \ scripts \ import_obj.py", line 453, in create_mesh
    face_mapping = me.faces.extend ([f [0] for f in faces], indexList = True)
KeyError: 'index out of range'

And 3DS Max says that my faces are duplicated.

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import struct
import os
from math import sqrt

heightPath = "C:\Onga\ArgoOnline\Resources\World\mortalis\mortalis.xRaw"
normalPath = "C:\Onga\ArgoOnline\Resources\World\mortalis\mortalis.tnm"
statInfo = os.stat(heightPath)
size = int(sqrt((statInfo.st_size - 26) / 4))
print(size)
with open(heightPath, "rb") as h:
	output = '# TERRAIN \n'
	h.seek(26)

	for x in range(size):
		for y in range(size):
			unk = struct.unpack("<f", h.read(4))
			output += "v %f %f %f\n" % (float(y), float(x), unk[0]*(-1))
			y += 1
		x += 1			
	with open(normalPath, "rb") as n:
		output += "\n# NORMAL \n"
		n.seek(26)

		for x in range(size):
			for y in range(size):	
				red = struct.unpack("<f", n.read(4))
				blue = struct.unpack("<f", n.read(4))
				green = struct.unpack("<f", n.read(4))
				output += "vn %f %f %f\n" % (red[0], green[0], blue[0])
		output += "\n# VERTEX \n"
		global no
		no = 1
		global xn
		xn = 0
		global lineSize
		lineSize = 0
		while no < ((size-1)*(size-1)):
			if lineSize == size:
				lineSize = 0
				no += 1
				xn += 1
			output += "f %d//%d %d//%d %d//%d %d//%d\n" % (no+xn-1, no, no+xn, no, no+xn+size-1, no, no+xn+size, no)
			no += 1
			lineSize += 1
		
		f = open(r"C:\Users\PC\Desktop\mmm.obj", "w")
		f.write(output)
		f.close()
		print("Done!\n")

Here's what I get at the output: http://www.mediafire.com/file/n2vniydup ... rtalis.obj

Posted: **Fri Jun 22, 2018 2:49 am**

Exse wrote: I tried to add faces to my script, but I get this error every time.
And 3DS Max says that my faces are duplicated.

For obj format the indices range from 1.

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output += "vn %f %f %f\n" % (red[0], green[0], blue[0])

Actually the RGB should be limitted to the 2D concept. Here for vertex normals, it's Normal x, y and z.

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output += "f %d//%d %d//%d %d//%d %d//%d\n" % (no+xn-1, no, no+xn, no, no+xn+size-1, no, no+xn+size, no)

I'm glad that you' choose to use a natural and more pleasing way to do it. But this line of code is not correct. The way creating a quad is slightly different from creating a triangle. Try this modified one:

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import struct
import os
from math import sqrt

heightPath = "..\mortalis.xRaw"
normalPath = "..\mortalis.tnm"
statInfo = os.stat(heightPath)
size = int(sqrt((statInfo.st_size - 26) / 4))
print(size)
with open(heightPath, "rb") as h:
	output = '# TERRAIN \n'
	h.seek(26)

	for y in range(size):
		for x in range(size):
			unk = struct.unpack("<f", h.read(4))
			output += "v %f %f %f\n" % (float(x), float(y), unk[0])
			x += 1
		y += 1         
with open(normalPath, "rb") as n:
	output += "\n# NORMAL \n"
	n.seek(26)

	for y in range(size):
		for x in range(size):   
			Nx = struct.unpack("<f", n.read(4))
			Ny = struct.unpack("<f", n.read(4))
			Nz = struct.unpack("<f", n.read(4))
			output += "vn %f %f %f\n" % (Nx[0], Ny[0], Nz[0])
			x += 1
		y += 1   
output += "\n# Faces  \n"
lineSize = size - 2
for y in range(lineSize):
	for x in range(lineSize):   
		output += "f %d//%d %d//%d %d//%d %d//%d\n" % (x+y*size+1, x+y*size+1, x+y*size+2, x+y*size+2, x+(y+1)*size+2, x+(y+1)*size+2, x+(y+1)*size+1, x+(y+1)*size+1)
		x += 1
	y += 1
f = open(r"..\mmm.obj", "w")
f.write(output)
f.close()
print("Done!\n")

It's still a bit slow though.
This is the result:

shot.jpg

Posted: **Mon Jun 25, 2018 2:43 am**

Hi

, thanks for the link

I tried to unpack it with the script you provided and the one on xentax , I run script and select only file.tbl2 but when i try to extract it I got this message:

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enter in folder C:\Onga\ArgoOnline\Resources
- open input file C:\Onga\ArgoOnline\Resources\file.tbl2
0
- enter in folder C:\Onga\ArgoOnline\Resources
  coverage file 0     0%   0          11780916   . offset 0000000000000000
- open input file C:\Onga\ArgoOnline\Resources\file0000.data2

- error in src\file.c line 465: fdnum_open()
Error: No such file or directory

Last script line before the error or that produced the error:
  34  open FDSE NAME1 0

Press ENTER or close the window to quit

Posted: **Mon Jun 25, 2018 9:15 am**

Drawing wrote: I tried to unpack it with the script you provided and the one on xentax , I run script and select only file.tbl2 but when i try to extract it I got this message

Hi again)
The error says that the script tries to open file file0000.data2. But the script should try to open only the files fileXXX.tbl2, not fileXXXX.tbl2.
Have you changed anything in the script from chrrox?

chrrox wrote:

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#quickbms script
#ARGO
#from chrrox

open FDDE tbl2 1
set arcnum 0


goto 0x10001C 1

for i = 0
    get offset long 1
    get zsize long 1
    get null3 long 1
    get size long 1
    get arcnum long 1
    print "%arcnum%"
        set NAME1 string "file0"
    set MYEXT string arcnum
    strlen MYEXTSZ MYEXT
    if MYEXTSZ == 1
        string NAME1 += "00"
    endif
    if MYEXTSZ == 2
        string name1 - 1
        string NAME1 += "0"
    endif
    if MYEXTSZ == 3
        string name1 - 1
        string NAME1 += ""
    endif
    string NAME1 += MYEXT
    string NAME1 += .data2
    open FDSE NAME1 0


    get null1 long 1
    get null2 long 1

    get name string 1
    Padding 4 1

    get null long 1
if zsize == size
        log name offset zsize
else
clog name offset zsize size
endif
next i

P.S. I gave a script for *.tbl files, not for *.tbl2.

Posted: **Mon Jun 25, 2018 1:04 pm**

Ah sorry I didn't see your script was for .tbl, anyway I tried script from chrrox but I got the same error I posted before.

In resource folder I got : file.tbl2 and a lot of filexxx: from file000.data2 to file148.data2
I realy don't understand what I miss...

Ok I understand the problem. In the folder there are filexxx and not filexxxx. I tried to rename some of them in filexxxx and the script works fine.
It's a pain the ass to rename every 148 file , so is there a quick way to modify the script? I really don't know how D:

Posted: **Mon Jun 25, 2018 1:55 pm**

Drawing wrote: Ok I understand the problem. In the folder there are filexxx and not filexxxx. I tried to rename some of them in filexxxx and the script works fine.
It's a pain the ass to rename every 148 file , so is there a quick way to modify the script? I really don't know how D:

Oh, I forgot that I changed it. Here is the final script code:

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#quickbms script 
#ARGO 

open FDDE tbl2 1 
set arcnum 0 


goto 0x10001C 1 

for i = 0 
    get offset long 1 
    get zsize long 1 
    get null3 long 1 
    get size long 1 
    get arcnum long 1 
    print "%arcnum%" 
        set NAME1 string "file" 
    set MYEXT string arcnum 
    strlen MYEXTSZ MYEXT 
    if MYEXTSZ == 1 
        string NAME1 += "00" 
    endif 
    if MYEXTSZ == 2 
        string NAME1 += "0" 
    endif 
    if MYEXTSZ == 3 
        string NAME1 += "" 
    endif 
    string NAME1 += MYEXT 
    string NAME1 += .data2 
    open FDSE NAME1 0 


    get null1 long 1 
    get null2 long 1 

    get name string 1 
    Padding 4 1 

    get null long 1 
if zsize == size 
        log name offset zsize 
else 
clog name offset zsize size 
endif 
next i

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