Possible next features of QuickBMS

[aluigi]

QuickBMS 0.9.2 is now available.

[-VASKO-]

Discovered an excellent program QuickBMS, but there are a couple of questions:

1. Is it possible to add a command line option to disable automatic guessing of the extension based on the contents of the extracted files?
2. Unfortunately, I did not find any instructions for building QuickBMS on Windows from sources. Do I need any special settings, libraries, compilers?

Many thanks to the author for the tremendous work!

[aluigi]

1)
Usually people just use a static name in the script for dumping files with a fixed extension.
For example:

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string NAME p "%d.dat" i
log NAME OFFSET SIZE

Basically it depends how really useful would be such option because there are already many options in quickbms and a simple script patch can do the job


2)
The current version of quickbms includes most of the libraries in its own source code but there are still some external ones, for example xcompress.lib (from the Xbox SDK) and openssl.
Everything else is already there and should work with make
I use a big .bat file for doing the job with many optimizations.

[-VASKO-]

Basically it depends how really useful would be such option because there are already many options in quickbms and a simple script patch can do the job

Many thanks for pointing this out. Your code works great. For example, in zlb1a.bms I did like this:

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math i = 0
for OFFSET = OFFSET < EXE_SIZE
[...]
    string NAME p "%08x.dat" i
    if CHECK == 0x005d  # lzma
        clog NAME OFFSET SIZE SIZE
    else
        log NAME OFFSET SIZE
    endif
    math OFFSET = NEXT_OFFSET
    math i += 1
next

[aluigi]

Good
In your case another solution would have been to use OFFSET instead of "i" since it's a sequential format and "i" wasn't available.

[Shokoniraya]

Possible next features of QuickBMS: add text importing in bigger size
Text. not archive

[aluigi]

Text works perfectly.
The problem is that sequential texts can't be supported in reimport2 because it's not possible to set the new offset, it's the same rule for both files and text.

[Shokoniraya]

Text works perfectly.
The problem is that sequential texts can't be supported in reimport2 because it's not possible to set the new offset, it's the same rule for both files and text.

i dont have anything to say anymore but these
Text Without Offset

if text or file does not ahve any offset, then we dont need to set any offset and this option will help aloooot in text files! i write a lot of script for localization files but you say offset,

i do not talk about offset. i talk about Without Offset!

[aluigi]

If you don't have an offset then you can't put longer text, it's exactly what I said.

OFFSET: ok, put the text at the end of the file and set the new offset
NO OFFSET: you can't put 100 bytes on a string of 90 bytes and you can't put the new string at the end because there is no reference to the new location

[Shokoniraya]

If you don't have an offset then you can't put longer text, it's exactly what I said.

OFFSET: ok, put the text at the end of the file and set the new offset
NO OFFSET: you can't put 100 bytes on a string of 90 bytes and you can't put the new string at the end because there is no reference to the new location

Just replace old data with new data and then set a new size
we dont have offset and even can do it with hex too
act just like force mode and just update size too, its realy help in localization files
archive will not break because there is no offset
If i replace 99 byte with 100byte and change size, file will work because there is no offset
why you dont want to accept it?

[aluigi]

I accept if you don't understand a programming language but I do NOT accept your complete lack of any logic.
I hope you are just joking.

Feel free to put a bus in the garage for a car.

[Shokoniraya]

I accept if you don't understand a programming language but I do NOT accept your complete lack of any logic.
I hope you are just joking.

Feel free to put a bus in the garage for a car.

no. i am serious, this option can help a lot in game localization
my complete lack of any logic? I apologize for that.
and yes, but a bus on garage

and i forgot to say something
dont leave empty spaces with \x00, because some games will scan texts like (get TEXT string)
so archive is ok. but text will corrupt. and size must be re-set too
i mean, put a bus in garage. and put a bike in garage
Thank you aluigi
i dont do off-topics anymore, sorry.

[aluigi]

quickbms in reimport2 mode already sets the correct size if offset is not available.
Everything works perfectly.

My suggestion with sequential data (when offset is not available) is to use reimport.bat instead of reimport2.bat or the whole format will be screwed.

If you don't want the padding zeroes I guess the only solution would be to use spaces when you edit the string and being sure to match the original size... difficult, moreover when using non-english languages.

For the next version of quickbms I can check if I can replace zeroes with spaces in reimport mode when using Slog command.

[michalss]

aluigi - working with your dll and i have to say it is just perfect work ALl in 1 lib is something what everyone can dream on .... Thx again i hope you gonna keep update it as your qbms..

[aluigi]

I'm very happy that finally it works well

[GHOST DEAD]

I'm very happy that finally it works well

not available in forum? a dll with a collection compression?

[aluigi]

The dll is available at:
http://aluigi.org/papers/quickbms_dll.zip

And you can find some usage examples in the previous pages, for example:
viewtopic.php?p=35965#p35965

[GHOST DEAD]

The dll is available at:
http://aluigi.org/papers/quickbms_dll.zip

And this you can find some usage examples in the previous pages, for example:
viewtopic.php?p=35965#p35965

Great! thanks!

[Shokoniraya]

and something about text importing (an other thing about it): dont use space in reimport! because its text! and even need to be smaller. so you must resize it too and add a new size and file should will be smaller in resize text without-offset files (cost it! not space it)

[MerlinSVK]

@Shokoniraya: QBMS reimports texts/files and do NOT repack them. Still don't know what you don't understand on that.
QBMS is powerful tool, but not almighty. So if you want repacker, you have to make it by yourself (or find somebody else to do that).