new AION .pak file format.need help!

[blacklotus]

Did anybody manage to decrypt these files with .xml extension, but which in fact are not xml files, when opened ?

I can't find how to decrypt thoses files ... if someone know how to

[chrrox]

If you look at the xml files in a hex editor all they did was pas the file with 00 on every other byte.
it is in plain text and easy to read / edit.

[Katadin]

Its because its encoded as UTF-16/Unicode.

[Laos]

It's not only unicode. Second part of file is binary data.

[Mark]

I don't know if this will help you guys with the XML files, but here's an executable I found in one of the .pak files. It doesn't seem to do anything, but judging by its name it must do something...

[nicoli_s]

any plans to make this work with the english client? can be downloaded here ftp://ftp.aiononline.com/client/

[nicoli_s]

actually, it seems to work just fine with the english client, anyone else had any success with the encrypted part of the xml files?

[iamhere]

Thanks to this awesome topic I've suceeded to export everything from the client. I've managed to open everything except animations. Anyone have a clue how to convert or view the animations? They are .caf extensions, I have no clue what that is.

Would be really pleased if someone could help, I'd actually pay for a converter if you make one.

[nicoli_s]

you figured out the proprietary xml format?

[Theran]

Thanks to this awesome topic I've suceeded to export everything from the client. I've managed to open everything except animations. Anyone have a clue how to convert or view the animations? They are .caf extensions, I have no clue what that is.

Would be really pleased if someone could help, I'd actually pay for a converter if you make one.

What did you use to unpack the pak files? I tried RPGViewer 3.0 with the Chinese client, but all the extracted files were 0kb. Any ideas?

[iamhere]

Thanks to this awesome topic I've suceeded to export everything from the client. I've managed to open everything except animations. Anyone have a clue how to convert or view the animations? They are .caf extensions, I have no clue what that is.

Would be really pleased if someone could help, I'd actually pay for a converter if you make one.

What did you use to unpack the pak files? I tried RPGViewer 3.0 with the Chinese client, but all the extracted files were 0kb. Any ideas?

Currently RPGViewer doesn't support higher version than AION_Setup_0.9.0.0. You've probably installed AION_Setup_0.9.5.0.

[Theran]

Thanks to this awesome topic I've suceeded to export everything from the client. I've managed to open everything except animations. Anyone have a clue how to convert or view the animations? They are .caf extensions, I have no clue what that is.

Would be really pleased if someone could help, I'd actually pay for a converter if you make one.

What did you use to unpack the pak files? I tried RPGViewer 3.0 with the Chinese client, but all the extracted files were 0kb. Any ideas?

Currently RPGViewer doesn't support higher version than AION_Setup_0.9.0.0. You've probably installed AION_Setup_0.9.5.0.

Probably so. Though I did manage to setup that python script to work, so I did get to convert them to zip and extract them. Been going over the cgf files to try to figure out their format.

[Rick]

http://gib.me/aion/ConvertXml.zip

Really makes it obvious why they went with their binary XML format (client_items.xml goes from ~12MB to ~115MB).

[nicoli_s]

any chance you'd be willing to share the format specification for it? i'm pretty close as it is, just not sure what the 03, 02, bytes do

[Rick]

any chance you'd be willing to share the format specification for it? i'm pretty close as it is, just not sure what the 03, 02, bytes do

http://svn.slurm.us/public/aion/trunk/