Crysis 2 - RETAIL .pak files

[aluigi]

-r -w are options so must be placed outside the " quotes and then you have added tons of paths... why?
the format is simply: quickbms.exe options script.bms archive folder

anyway the following is a translation from the italian of the step-by-step I gave to an user on my forum:

• in the folder where you have extracted the files delete those that you have not modified, for example if you have modified the file my_folder\settings\settings.xml then delete all the others and leave only this one (don't touch its path)
• create a backup copy of the pak file you will modify
• create a link to quickbms.exe and add -r -w in the "Target:" field in the properties of the link, for example the result should be like: "c:\folder\quickbms.exe" -r -w
• click on the link you have just created
• quickbms will guide you step-by-step, so select the crysis2.bms file
• select the original archive in which you want to reimport the files you have modified
• select the folder where the files reside, exactly the same folder you selected for the extraction
• at the end of the process quickbms will tell you how many files have been reimported, so verify that they are exactly those you expected

as you can see it's really a joke to use the reimport feature, indeed except for the link it's EXACTLY the same of the extraction

[ZerOHearth]

THX @ aluigi

I dont like to use the CMD. Normaly i use GUI´s. ---> Can you build a more user friendly surface area for the/your GUI.

But now i have a new problem.

[chrrox]

you have weird characters and spaces in your file path
you should try c:\input c:\output and do not use weird symbols like #

[ZerOHearth]

No chrrox.

The "#" is not the Problem.

Still the same "ERROR".

[chrrox]

I am not sure put quotes around all your paths several people have gotten it to work no problem you are doing something wrong.

[Ashford2145]

Ok,

i have made a Step by Step Video Tutorial.
You can see it Here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOTXiEHrGD4

klick on 720p and expand the video screen
to see the video in fullscreen.

[ZerOHearth]

THX @ Ashford2145 or the "Step by step - TUT"

It works 100%

The only thing is that i would ad files to an other/new archiv.

[aluigi]

@ZerOHearth:
would be good for all of us if you avoid to write in bold

[VenomOC]

Aluigi Hello, could you try to fix a problem in this script crysis 2? I'm having problems when you rebuild a .pak. I leave the files with the same size but the bms says the file is 500bytes more, and this is not true, I am absolutely certain that they are equal.

Example, if I change a few lines, keeping the original size, he recreates normally, but if I change the whole file and also leaving the original size, it's this mistake.

Sorry for english I'm Brazilian.

here's the file .PAK entire original and the file I want to modify it.

http://www.mediafire.com/?f4ttamha7cz74l6

tks

[aluigi]

the files are compressed and with some of them the compression used by Crysis is better than the one used by quickbms (zlib used in 7zip) while for others is better the one of quickbms.

but in this case I guess it's just the problem of the different chars used for the translation that occupy more space during the compression: english takes the chars under 0x7f while brazilian uses also accents and other chars making the compressed result bigger.

so for the compressed files it's important that both the real and compressed sizes are lower/equale than the originals.

[VenomOC]

Aluigi, I removed all accents and special characters in my language, and yet he's the error. Taking the characters, the file only 20bytes decreased, and the error is 500.

I find that very strange because the original file is 20,992 bytes, and quickbms says it has 20,553.

You got to be because of compression, for compressing them with winrar, the greater is translated, but are not accents.

Have you any idea what might be, and some means to help me?

Tks.

[ZerOHearth]

How can i build CUSTOM - *.pak files for Crysis 2?

[danny]

Nice, thanks, but I have a question, when you make the direct access, I notice that after the .exe , you have -r -w I see my program and i don't have that, and it doesn't works for me when I do everything that you do, it overwrites the descompressed files. Do you know what it might be?

[VenomOC]

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[Sfinks69]

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Hugs.

Same problem. Please review