[REQ][PC]Sleeping Dogs .big files

[lllccc]

Huh. Can't attach. Reached Max Size Download here

yea thats the one i downloaded but when i go to open any .bin files it shows nothing in the folder but there are alot
of.bin files extracted from the .bix/.big files and the only 2 files in the global folder

[Ekey]

You can unpack only XMLCache. Other bins not supported. This is all that I can do.

[Ekey]

Well trying redesign interface. Looks sweet

[timartinelli]

Hello

Thank you for the great work eKey friend who has been doing and helping everyone.

I got some time off and I lost a bit of the theme topic, already have some test files with the repaker.'s BIG PS3?

Hugs.

[Ekey]

Official Modding Tools request/petition

[Ekey]

Textures unpacking incomming

PC


PS3/XBOX


'll share tool later when I resolve problem of convertation textures for ps3/xbox

[michalss]

Hi Ekey,

Can you please describe current status of your tools? Is it posible to repack big files and textures ? Asking coz of locatizations ? I could maybe help...

[Ekey]

I'm not interested anymore.

[turkgamer]

I'm not interested anymore.

Do i need packager to translate a game?

[Chipicao]

Has anyone tried to run the game unpacked?

I'm aware not all filenames are known at this point, but I was thinking maybe those known might work.
So I extracted the vehicles archive, placed the resulting folders (Vehicles and Vehicles_New) in \SleepingDogs\Data\ and then I deleted vehicles.bix and vehicles.bin.

The game starts and most cars seem to work, but some don't and the game crashes when it attempts to load them.
Could there be a problem with filenames or maybe decompression on some files?

[Ekey]

Game does not work without archives.

[Moo]

I'm not interested anymore.

Not going to release what you have so far?
Maybe even source, so someone else can continue with it?

[Ekey]

I will share updated version later > Improved detect filenames and support for unpack textures (Thanks to howfie)

[ZerOHearth]

Any chance to repack files?

[SergeantJoe]

Sorry for the dig, but is there any chance you're still interested in this?

Any chance to repack files?

Repacking isn't necessary, simply extract the files to ".../SleepingDogs/Data/" and if the game can't find the BIG file then it'll load those instead. HUGE thanks to Chipicao for figuring that out.
However, the game crashes instantly with all of them except for CharactersHD and Animation since the unpacker doesn't assign names to vital files. If Ekey updates those unknown files then we could create mods for normal characters too!


Also, Howfie already created a texture extractor a long time ago. It's a standalone .exe though, maybe you could incorporate his code into your program to make the process more streamlined.

EDIT: Reading over this thread, it saddens me to see how much support there was for this earlier, and now absolutely nobody cares.