[DiscordArchive] This is almost certainly a stupid question, but I'm a bit unfamiliar with hex editing. How do you gu
[DiscordArchive] This is almost certainly a stupid question, but I'm a bit unfamiliar with hex editing. How do you gu
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This is almost certainly a stupid question, but I'm a bit unfamiliar with hex editing. How do you guys go about properly modifying files? For example, if you have a texture in an M2 that points to creature/wolfAlpha.blp and change it to creature/wolf.blp, then the model no longer loads, I assume because the number of bytes in the file has changed. What's the proper way to do this, then?
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08-02-2022, 09:11 PM #1Archived author: Lear • Posted: 2022-08-02T21:11:15.308000+00:00
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This is almost certainly a stupid question, but I'm a bit unfamiliar with hex editing. How do you guys go about properly modifying files? For example, if you have a texture in an M2 that points to creature/wolfAlpha.blp and change it to creature/wolf.blp, then the model no longer loads, I assume because the number of bytes in the file has changed. What's the proper way to do this, then?
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if the new string is shorter you typically don't need to do anything, just change the length variable if there is one (some fields have it and others don't), and if the old one wass null-terminated you also null-terminate yours
rektbyfaith
08-02-2022, 09:12 PM #2Archived author: <o> • Posted: 2022-08-02T21:12:25.437000+00:00
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if the new string is shorter you typically don't need to do anything, just change the length variable if there is one (some fields have it and others don't), and if the old one wass null-terminated you also null-terminate yours
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when hex-editing, you always edit by replace, **NEVER** by insert.
rektbyfaith
08-02-2022, 09:12 PM #3Archived author: <o> • Posted: 2022-08-02T21:12:51.220000+00:00
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when hex-editing, you always edit by replace, **NEVER** by insert.
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if you get a new string or chunk that needs to be larger than the old one, typically what people do is just re-point the reference and place the new data at the end of the file
rektbyfaith
08-02-2022, 09:13 PM #4Archived author: <o> • Posted: 2022-08-02T21:13:24.812000+00:00
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if you get a new string or chunk that needs to be larger than the old one, typically what people do is just re-point the reference and place the new data at the end of the file
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if it's shorter then you can simply change the string length, if ti's longer the simple solution would be changing the offset to the end of the file and moving the string there. otherwise you'd have to fix the offsets of all chunks
rektbyfaith
08-02-2022, 09:15 PM #5Archived author: Titi • Posted: 2022-08-02T21:15:04.334000+00:00
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if it's shorter then you can simply change the string length, if ti's longer the simple solution would be changing the offset to the end of the file and moving the string there. otherwise you'd have to fix the offsets of all chunks
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Oh cool, that's actually pretty straight-forward then, I'll try messing with it. Thanks, you guys!
rektbyfaith
08-02-2022, 09:16 PM #6Archived author: Lear • Posted: 2022-08-02T21:16:21.966000+00:00
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Oh cool, that's actually pretty straight-forward then, I'll try messing with it. Thanks, you guys!
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Gotta say I appreciate how helpful everybody in this server is, private server-stuff has changed a lot. I remember it being a lot harder to come by helpful info for a lot of stuff even just a few years ago, thanks again.
rektbyfaith
08-02-2022, 09:19 PM #7Archived author: Lear • Posted: 2022-08-02T21:19:35.342000+00:00
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Gotta say I appreciate how helpful everybody in this server is, private server-stuff has changed a lot. I remember it being a lot harder to come by helpful info for a lot of stuff even just a few years ago, thanks again.
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Probably be better at the bottom but I was just quickly writing a concept up for it
rektbyfaith
08-02-2022, 09:40 PM #8Archived author: tb • Posted: 2022-08-02T21:40:16.458000+00:00
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Probably be better at the bottom but I was just quickly writing a concept up for it
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Thankful to have ppl like <@213383518842126336> and the developers around for sure
Their value is non-numerical and indescribable
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08-02-2022, 11:09 PM #9Archived author: Cyn • Posted: 2022-08-02T23:09:46.007000+00:00
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Thankful to have ppl like <@213383518842126336> and the developers around for sure
Their value is non-numerical and indescribable
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