Creature Conflict .p00 and .dat archives

[SeriousNorbo]

Hi, from some time i'm trying to edit game archives saved in a bunch of .p00 and .dat files. I tried using Dragon Unpacker and it succesfully extracted sounds and images from data.p00, but as i checked with notepad, some packages also contain .lwo and .lws files which are simple Lightwave models.

So, could someone find a way to unpack everything from these archieves and (If possible) find a way to build them back after editing?

Here are 3 archieves which contain some data: https://www.mediafire.com/?9jval3u4x3kcga6

[aluigi]

http://aluigi.org/bms/creature_conflict.bms

Regarding gameset.dat (and probably gui.dat too) I don't see an index file or information about where are stored the files in the dat archive, maybe it's not even an archive.

[SeriousNorbo]

Thanks, it succesfully extracted all the files.

But well, it seems that something isn't right with them, sounds are unplayable, and models can't be imported either to Lightwave or any other modeler, only images works fine.

[aluigi]

I checked the PNG files and they are correct but I have an idea.
Open the script with a text editor and REMOVE the following lines:

Code: Select all

    math OFFSET + 12
    math SIZE   - 12

Can you open the files extracted with this modified script?

[SeriousNorbo]

No, sounds and models have the same error, and now even images cannot be opened :/

[aluigi]

Ok, script 0.1.1

Now both PNG and WAV are ok, and I have also added support for the folders (numeric types).

I suspect that LWS and LWO are in non standard format because I downloaded a lwo sample (I'm not in the graphics stuff) and it's different, those of CC have no headers.

[SeriousNorbo]

Oh, ok, propably they used their own model format, still thanks a lot.

[Corak]

Tried with retail full version of the game.
here data+index files: https://cloud.mail.ru/public/Meyd/DWxqQ ... est_Eng.7z
Got error:
"
09c63457 4294967284 1/gui_weapons_ps2.png

Error: impossible to write 0xfffffff4 bytes (total 0xfffffff4)
Check your disk space

- 651 files found in 13 seconds
coverage file 0 24% 54768 220376 . offset 0001016c
coverage file 1 49% 163978063 333548138 . offset 09c63457
"
http://imagizer.imageshack.com/img921/1082/8FHBr9.png

Cannot process other files from index, only first ones before error.
flags "-." "-e" dont help too.

Also all .tga files there are .png too, but have odd 8 bytes at the beginning before real PNG signature. So if you remove it, it will be normal png:

[aluigi]

Wasn't able to download your samples (terribly slow) but I guess I found a work-around and updated the script.
In short that png file was zero bytes long.

[SeriousNorbo]

One more question, is it possible to write a script which could rebuild the archieve with edited images?

[aluigi]

It's a "weird" format so you can't write a rebuilder without knowing the meaning of every single bit of the archive format.
The only option is the reimport feature of quickbms