Mass Effect Andromeda

Extraction and unpacking of game archives and compression, encryption, obfuscation, decoding of unknown files
sheperdpie
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Re: Mass Effect Andromeda

Post by sheperdpie »

tommyturd wrote:
sheperdpie wrote:
y3804 wrote:I made a simple tutorial on how to mod + demo of my Out-of-Bounds mod for multiplayer

Watch if you need to learn how to mod!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb3lyBEle2o

I attached AnselSDK64 BCrypt bypass to this post if anyone needs it


Brill! Thanks guys, it actually worked at the first try. I'll start the second playtru tonight with the underarmor outfit...


If you could post a small guide on how you did that, that would really appreciated! This is what I've been trying to do, but can't quite figure it out.

*Edit*
To clarify, I tried search through the TOC tree for the relevant underamor's/casual clothing options, but not sure which items correspond to which underamor/casual outfit.



I Was too quick in claiming victory. I managed to change the outfit but now the door of the personal quarters doesnt open and the save with the outfit on doesnt work... But I'll keep at it , I think i'm on the right track...
I'm tinkering with the 'naked' outfit. I assume it to be the 'underarmor', and when I import the files from it to the other casual outfits it works. Still work to be done but hey, that's nearly as much fun as the game itself
Rick
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Re: Mass Effect Andromeda

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sheperdpie wrote:I Was too quick in claiming victory. I managed to change the outfit but now the door of the personal quarters doesnt open and the save with the outfit on doesnt work... But I'll keep at it , I think i'm on the right track...
I'm tinkering with the 'naked' outfit. I assume it to be the 'underarmor', and when I import the files from it to the other casual outfits it works. Still work to be done but hey, that's nearly as much fun as the game itself
Naked is naked, not underarmor.
sheperdpie
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Re: Mass Effect Andromeda

Post by sheperdpie »

Rick wrote:
sheperdpie wrote:I Was too quick in claiming victory. I managed to change the outfit but now the door of the personal quarters doesnt open and the save with the outfit on doesnt work... But I'll keep at it , I think i'm on the right track...
I'm tinkering with the 'naked' outfit. I assume it to be the 'underarmor', and when I import the files from it to the other casual outfits it works. Still work to be done but hey, that's nearly as much fun as the game itself
Naked is naked, not underarmor.


But by importing the naked res and textures the casual outfit shows up as the underarmor, not as 'naked. How is it? Maybe the underarmor shows only because I messed with the files and by default if the game can't find the right file shows the 'underarmor?
tommyturd
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Re: Mass Effect Andromeda

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sheperdpie wrote:
Rick wrote:
sheperdpie wrote:I Was too quick in claiming victory. I managed to change the outfit but now the door of the personal quarters doesnt open and the save with the outfit on doesnt work... But I'll keep at it , I think i'm on the right track...
I'm tinkering with the 'naked' outfit. I assume it to be the 'underarmor', and when I import the files from it to the other casual outfits it works. Still work to be done but hey, that's nearly as much fun as the game itself
Naked is naked, not underarmor.


But by importing the naked res and textures the casual outfit shows up as the underarmor, not as 'naked. How is it? Maybe the underarmor shows only because I messed with the files and by default if the game can't find the right file shows the 'underarmor?


Towards the end of the game you wear the underarmor in the Tempest, perhaps there's actually an item entry for that? Additionally, I'm trying to find the underarmor used for actual armor, I'm wondering if it's possible to change it to a different style, like the ones you see npc's wearing on Eos and asari in multiplayer.
sheperdpie
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Re: Mass Effect Andromeda

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tommyturd wrote:
sheperdpie wrote:
Rick wrote:Naked is naked, not underarmor.


But by importing the naked res and textures the casual outfit shows up as the underarmor, not as 'naked. How is it? Maybe the underarmor shows only because I messed with the files and by default if the game can't find the right file shows the 'underarmor?


Towards the end of the game you wear the underarmor in the Tempest, perhaps there's actually an item entry for that? Additionally, I'm trying to find the underarmor used for actual armor, I'm wondering if it's possible to change it to a different style, like the ones you see npc's wearing on Eos and asari in multiplayer.


I don't have much of a clue on how to subtitute the armour too, but as the casual goes I managed to have ryder showing up with precisely the casual he/she wears in the final mission propogue
Rick says that the 'naked' files I 've been using are the wrong ones (naked means really naked it seems,,,( so I'll go searching again
warrantyvoider
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Re: Mass Effect Andromeda

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coming soon...^^
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update: export/import/recompiling is already working for me, but somehow my game crashes on import, this could take longer
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griggs111
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Re: Mass Effect Andromeda

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warrantyvoider wrote:coming soon...^^
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OMG! You're amazing!... I can't wait for it! :lol:
lyutor1945
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Re: Mass Effect Andromeda

Post by lyutor1945 »

Hey guys!! Can anyone suggest how I can get models,skeletons and etc.
And then import them into blender or 3D max?
warrantyvoider
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Re: Mass Effect Andromeda

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UPDATE

-added talktable editor (importer/exporter)
-exported textfiles are in unicode format
-for this to work I had to disable the patch overwriting it!:
--I renamed Patch\Win32\loctext\de.sb and de.toc to .nope
--so the engine doesnt load them
--but also means they are not applied
--at least the game loads it for now and I could test it :P

greetz WV
Rick
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Re: Mass Effect Andromeda

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sheperdpie wrote:I don't have much of a clue on how to subtitute the armour too, but as the casual goes I managed to have ryder showing up with precisely the casual he/she wears in the final mission propogue
Rick says that the 'naked' files I 've been using are the wrong ones (naked means really naked it seems,,,( so I'll go searching again
I am not saying you are wrong, I am just saying, naked is naked. Not underarmor.
warrantyvoider
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Re: Mass Effect Andromeda

Post by warrantyvoider »

Rick wrote:
sheperdpie wrote:I don't have much of a clue on how to subtitute the armour too, but as the casual goes I managed to have ryder showing up with precisely the casual he/she wears in the final mission propogue
Rick says that the 'naked' files I 've been using are the wrong ones (naked means really naked it seems,,,( so I'll go searching again
I am not saying you are wrong, I am just saying, naked is naked. Not underarmor.

lmao :lol:
sheperdpie
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Re: Mass Effect Andromeda

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Rick wrote:
sheperdpie wrote:I don't have much of a clue on how to subtitute the armour too, but as the casual goes I managed to have ryder showing up with precisely the casual he/she wears in the final mission propogue
Rick says that the 'naked' files I 've been using are the wrong ones (naked means really naked it seems,,,( so I'll go searching again
I am not saying you are wrong, I am just saying, naked is naked. Not underarmor.


Tautology a gogo ;)
griggs111
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Re: Mass Effect Andromeda

Post by griggs111 »

When I click on an english loctext file I got an error message, but everything works just fine in every other language.
What am I missing here?

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Trisstiz
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Re: Mass Effect Andromeda

Post by Trisstiz »

Hi. Could you please explain where to find a texture for a custom presets and how to extract it? Thank you in advance.
AnonBaiter
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Re: Mass Effect Andromeda

Post by AnonBaiter »

It seems that the tool doesn`t support the English language files for some reason.
warrantyvoider
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Re: Mass Effect Andromeda

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load it to VFS first, am away from my pc right now, dunno, and sry if it fails
griggs111
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Re: Mass Effect Andromeda

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warrantyvoider wrote:load it to VFS first, am away from my pc right now, dunno, and sry if it fails


Loading to VFS cause the same error.
Also if I'm trying to change the same text step-by-step as you did in the german localization this happens:
(I'm sure that I'm missing something, but I don't know what! :( I'm sorry for being noob in this.)

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warrantyvoider
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Re: Mass Effect Andromeda

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Looks like you dont save the edit as unicode. Use notepad++ fe. maybe repair your game, field type 0 is not allowed, also it doesnt happen for me at all, so cant reproduce.

EDIT: let see if I can get patches to work too... (marked byted = chunk type = 0x3000), for more details, I lookup here: https://github.com/GreyDynamics/Frostbi ... tcher.java
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added sha1 preview, export of that, and if you dbl-click an entry its text is copied to clipboard

greetz WV
griggs111
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Re: Mass Effect Andromeda

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Thanks for the reply... my game files were corrupted somehow! :\
But I've got another weird problem.

If I change this:
- 00017C40 ZUM STARTEN {MenuAccept} DRÜCKEN
to this: (hungarian)
- 00017C40 NYOMD MEG A {MenuAccept} GOMBOT
After saving it, clicking away in the left side list and then clicking back, I got a bunch of "Unknown chunk type 0x????" error messages.

I have to force shut down the program and repair the whole game. :(
warrantyvoider
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Re: Mass Effect Andromeda

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griggs111 wrote:Thanks for the reply... my game files were corrupted somehow! :\
But I've got another weird problem.

If I change this:
- 00017C40 ZUM STARTEN {MenuAccept} DRÜCKEN
to this: (hungarian)
- 00017C40 NYOMD MEG A {MenuAccept} GOMBOT
After saving it, clicking away in the left side list and then clicking back, I got a bunch of "Unknown chunk type 0x????" error messages.

I have to force shut down the program and repair the whole game. :(


no idea what you do. have you verified you use unicode? have you tried to import the list unchanged back? which toc/bundle/res did you used exactly? why dont you have backups for the things you change, there is sha1 locator and the status bar... see, I dont want to annoy you, but you have to help me recreate whatever happens at your side on my side, in order to fix it on my side. I cant debug your pc and even the best logs can miss something trivial
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