The Astérix Gaming Guild: xxl

Martyste Tendertail

Pointers.

Martyste Tendertail

I guess that to find pointers... only solution would be to... mess up the hex values?

Martyste Tendertail

Actually distording 3D objects worked fine yesterday. Game won't block because of modded stuff.

pyramidensurfer

But if you change the size of the vertex data, the game will not find the objects anymore.

Martyste Tendertail

I swear, if the CNJV got a copy of the Kal Tool... I'd... I'd be ready to buy it if nessessary! :automatix:

Martyste Tendertail

Then there must be pointers.

Martyste Tendertail

If you change the size you change where the pointers look at, earlier or later.

Martyste Tendertail

And this will affect all the ongoing objects in data

pyramidensurfer

Yes. Or the file has information on how big each chunk of data is.

Martyste Tendertail

And that... would hardly be found by me. I can spot things that repeat themselves in hex but, what they do...

Martyste Tendertail

Remember that number that got duplicated and showed the number of vertices when turned in decimal? What if changed it accordingly?

pyramidensurfer

That would probably not help. There is likely some form of table somewhere at the beginning or the end of the file indicating the position of each object/sound/etc. in the file which we would need to find and modify.

Martyste Tendertail

Aaah.

Martyste Tendertail

It's best then to experiment on the smallest file.

pyramidensurfer

It's like that in the XXL 2 files, but they are structures differently.

Martyste Tendertail

Rome's STRucture 03 should do.

Martyste Tendertail

It's small enough to mess up with.

pyramidensurfer

I've found some pointers in the file pointing to other pointers and pointing around seemingly forever, but nothing useful.

pyramidensurfer

It looked like a linked list of some kind.

Martyste Tendertail

Gaaah! What a Kal Vert!

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