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Changes in xoreos-tools version 0.0.5

This release of the xoreos-tool package features three new tools: ssf2xml, xml2ssf and erf.

The first toool, ssf2xml, takes a sound set file as used in the two Neverwinter Nights and the two Knights of the Old Republic games and converts it into a user-readable XML file. That file can then be edited and, with the help of the second new tool, xml2ssf, converted back into a game-readable SSF file.

The third new tool is a packer for the ERF archive format. It is the counterpart of the already existing unerf tool, which extracts ERF archives. However, unlike the unerf tool, the erf tool can only create ERF archives of the version 1.0, as used by Neverwinter Nights, Knights of the Old Republic I and II, Jade Empire and The Witcher. Later versions of the format are not yet supported.

Apart from that, this release of course also includes a ton of user-invisible code quality and documentation fixes.

Changes in xoreos-tools version 0.0.4

This release of the xoreos-tools package features two new tools: fixpremiumgff and ncsdis.

The first tool, fixpremiumgff, can restore the deliberately broken GFF files found in the BioWare premium modules for Neverwinter Nights. The resulting GFF files can then be edited as normal.

The second tool, ncsdis, is a disassembler for the stack-based bytecode of BioWare's NWScript scripting language. It supports the scripts of all games targeted by xoreos and can disassemble them into a full assembly listing. It can also produce a control flow graph in the DOT description language, which can then be plotted into an image by using the dot tools from the GraphViz suite (http://graphviz.org/).

Moreover, this release includes a lot of user-invisible code documentation and quality fixes.

Changes in xoreos-tools version 0.0.3

This release of the xoreos-tools package features a new xml2tlk tool that can convert XML files created by the tlk2xml tool back into a talk table TLK file. Please note that, at the moment, only non-GFF'd TLK files can be written, as used by the two Neverwinter Nights games, the two Knights of the Old Republic games, Jade Empire and The Witcher. TLK files as used by Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood and the two Dragon Age games can not be written (they can, however, be read with the tlk2xml tool).

Additionally, the convert2da tool gained the ability to write binary 2DA files, as used by the two Knights of the Old Republic games; and xoreostex2tga can now correctly read TPC cube maps.

Changes in xoreos-tools version 0.0.2

This is the first official release of xoreos-tools, together with xoreos.

Included are:

  • Tools for handling resource archives
    • unkeybif
    • unerf
    • unrim
    • unherf
    • unnds
    • desmall
  • Tools converting basic resource formats into human-readable form
    • gff2xml
    • tlk2xml
    • convert2da
  • Tools converting graphics formats into TGA
    • xoreostex2tga
    • unnsbtx
    • nbfs2tga
    • ncgr2tga
    • cbgt2tga
    • cdpth2tga