I need a lot of help with a lot of different things. Just in the offchance that an experienced modder swings by, I'd like to have a bunch of this stuff in one place. Assuming of course that such a person was generous enough to offer assistance.
I'll start with this one.
I'm having an issue with one of Silverback's tools, SavingIt. Tool is available here: http://fabletlcmod.com/forum/index.php?t=msg&th=1666&start=0&
I have seen modders say that a lot of stuff goes into the save and that's why so many things require starting a new game. I want to investigate the save files as I suspect that tng level scripts may, possibly, be fuller and more detailed in the save. It would be acceptable and expected if the saves retained script data in a binary format; I'd be able to decrypt that given enough time, and I have enough time. Unfortunately I don't know, I can't get that far by myself because it's additionally zlib compressed. I suspected either zlib or lzo, but the huge tipoff was that the tool came packaged with a zlib library.
The tool doesn't work for me. I don't expect a whole lot of help with this, seeing as how even if I could reach the author, he's very clearly stated at the start of his thread, "There will be no support from me, I don't care if it works for you or not. Judging by the majority of the posts, it won't." It does do stuff. It attempts to work, I suppose. I only need it to extract the contents so I can pick at it, and when extracting section 2 (or even section 1 but section 2 is the meat) it produces a file, but it's only null bytes. I'm wondering if I may have done something wrong, or if my save is just busted (for a small game Fable sure has a lot of bugs and glitches).
I've tried it out on previous saves in the same profile with the same result. I'll experiment some more later on and see what happens.
An important note is that I do not want this to come off as disparaging of the tool author, Silverback. He explains very well that the tools weren't meant for public use, that they were merely rudimentary tools used to crack the formats, which appears to have worked very well. I am making excellent use of his other tools, notably CAppearanceDef and EffectExplorer.
Whenever I have other problems I'll just post them here; I would find it uncouth to have myself take up the first several page of the section with my threads.
I'll start with this one.
I'm having an issue with one of Silverback's tools, SavingIt. Tool is available here: http://fabletlcmod.com/forum/index.php?t=msg&th=1666&start=0&
I have seen modders say that a lot of stuff goes into the save and that's why so many things require starting a new game. I want to investigate the save files as I suspect that tng level scripts may, possibly, be fuller and more detailed in the save. It would be acceptable and expected if the saves retained script data in a binary format; I'd be able to decrypt that given enough time, and I have enough time. Unfortunately I don't know, I can't get that far by myself because it's additionally zlib compressed. I suspected either zlib or lzo, but the huge tipoff was that the tool came packaged with a zlib library.
The tool doesn't work for me. I don't expect a whole lot of help with this, seeing as how even if I could reach the author, he's very clearly stated at the start of his thread, "There will be no support from me, I don't care if it works for you or not. Judging by the majority of the posts, it won't." It does do stuff. It attempts to work, I suppose. I only need it to extract the contents so I can pick at it, and when extracting section 2 (or even section 1 but section 2 is the meat) it produces a file, but it's only null bytes. I'm wondering if I may have done something wrong, or if my save is just busted (for a small game Fable sure has a lot of bugs and glitches).
I've tried it out on previous saves in the same profile with the same result. I'll experiment some more later on and see what happens.
An important note is that I do not want this to come off as disparaging of the tool author, Silverback. He explains very well that the tools weren't meant for public use, that they were merely rudimentary tools used to crack the formats, which appears to have worked very well. I am making excellent use of his other tools, notably CAppearanceDef and EffectExplorer.
Whenever I have other problems I'll just post them here; I would find it uncouth to have myself take up the first several page of the section with my threads.
