whats farcry? its a great FPS xbox 1 game similar to halo 2 the sample link doesn't even work It works now. BTW: I looked over many XBT files, and either Silver was wrong about the file structure or something else.. Many texture files have more mipmaps levels in that field than makes logical sense ...

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i'm tired of this place being completely dead, is everybody in on ignoring me?

Just tell me! I won't waste my time posting and waiting for replies!!

I found this pattern on all the xbg files: browing3rd_carver.xbg OFFSET|NUM|VALUE ---------------------- 104|4|356 - offset of string 108|4|103 - length of string (2 strings with . at end of both) XBT files XBT files - 32 byte header 4 8 12 16 20 24 26 (offsets) dimX-dimY-Size- Type-MpMps-Alpha- ? 2...

Silver wrote this a long time ago: For Textures: Texture Start [4] - Unknown (00010403) seems to initiate all textures? [4] Dimension x [4] Dimension y [4] Image Size in Bytes [4] Type? 0x12 (18 ) = DXT3 / 0x10 (16) = DXT1 (All this is guess work based on math :p ) [4] Mip Maps [4] Alpha? [4] ? [4] ...

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I took a quick look but i'm just learning about these things as well... I recommend reading the "guide to file archive exploration pdf" on teh main xentax.com website It has some sample and common file structures to look for, for examples, the first 4 bytes could be a grais, then the next ...

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AWESOME SILVER! glad to see you are still around :) I know a lot more than I used to before, but I still don't know everything. :) Could you explain these things to me? 1. the CRC (wiki) says its a way to sign files with a code.. bal bla bla, what is it really pertaining to the crc's found in the .D...

Hi silver! I'd love to talk to you about an old post you made on farcry evolution here:
viewtopic.php?t=1827

please reply to the PM i sent you, I realize this is off topic....

Hi its been a very long time, but I'm still intersted in getting full support for this game in xentax, I'm reading the guide to file explorations but it is very hard for me to just pick up this up... however, i'm trying some things that may help you complete it: 1. watto with gamextractor made a spe...

yeah sorry my former webserver was a target of a hackers and now everything is deleted, i'm working on getting a new link working again

for now you can pm me to get my msn, and i can send u the prog to extract the archives

oh i can't try out the mex script mr. mouse, because i have the free version of multi-ex, i would love to buy it but i need to know for sure it can do what i want it to do, and that is to succesfully extract .dat archives for farcry, and in order to test that i can't do that u see my predicament, sh...

thanks mr. mouse! been about a year now for someone to reply to this post, i forgot about it actually and had moved on, but nevertheless appreicate the work you've done for it, i was talking with watto with watto.org and his game extractor, he developed a farcry plugin to extract these dat2 files, o...