New ASH 2.3 released!

[VILE]

well i would still like to try my hand at modding ash so i could make a stage ash, if you can tell me how to modify it would be greatly appreciated.

[picano]

You're back elrefugio? o.o

I could hug you.

I attempted making a stage ASH earlier this week... ran into the roadblock of... I can't find out what order to put the stages back in (they don't appear to follow any pattern I'm aware of --- alphabetical, case sensitive alphabetical, or by size...). But you're back... so hopefully you can find a way!

(As far as my modification attempt went... --- unpack the stage PAC, decompress the inner 001.bin, unpack the decompressed bin, find and unpack the first brres after a string of bins --- 001.brres 002.brres 003.brres 004.bin 005.bin 004.brres --- reusing, mostly, the character ash code)

[VILE]

hmm picano if you can tell me how to modify ash and send me your half done stage ash i would like to try finish it off.

[elrefugio]

Apr 13, 2009 7:50:31 GMT -5 picano said:

You're back elrefugio? o.o

I could hug you.

I attempted making a stage ASH earlier this week... ran into the roadblock of... I can't find out what order to put the stages back in (they don't appear to follow any pattern I'm aware of --- alphabetical, case sensitive alphabetical, or by size...). But you're back... so hopefully you can find a way!

(As far as my modification attempt went... --- unpack the stage PAC, decompress the inner 001.bin, unpack the decompressed bin, find and unpack the first brres after a string of bins --- 001.brres 002.brres 003.brres 004.bin 005.bin 004.brres --- reusing, mostly, the character ash code)

Well... I have been reading that every stage works differently, you must decompress the biggest file or something like that.
I hope you can manage to create an stage ASH If not, please wait a week or so, because now I'm busy with my exams. As fas as I know, it shouldn't be too hard (well, at least not harder than how char selection screen worked!) so I won't have any problems.

[picano]

Apr 13, 2009 7:53:07 GMT -5 VILE said:

hmm picano if you can tell me how to modify ash and send me your half done stage ash i would like to try finish it off.

Heh... good luck with that. I don't know much perl to begin with so I've been going back and forth between references and the file itself --- caring only about functionality and making... well rather crap code.

My current modifications to ASH (stage attempt, based off ASH 2.1):
www.filefactory.com/file/aga8eh0/n/Stage_Test_zip

But as I noted before... all it does is add in a few extra steps to unpack the file down to where ASH could handle it normally. It's not pretty by any means... once it fully extracts it can recreate the inner most brres file (still output to _new.pac) but all the hexed textures will be out of order -- most likely ignoring mipmapping as well.

Editing ASH is "as simple" as opening the .pl files in a text editor. Outside of that... have to figure it out on your own.

@elrefugio: Unfortunately I'm getting into heavy exams myself --- attempting this came out of boredom

[VILE]

wow super epic fail @ me, i barely understand perl coding 0.0, well i hope elrefugio can make one

EDIT: hey picano i get the same error (it wont do 03.tpl) when im trying to compile final destination as the new ash, i thought u said it could compile but not properly.

[picano]

Apr 13, 2009 8:28:21 GMT -5 VILE said:

EDIT: hey picano i get the same error (it wont do 03.tpl) when im trying to compile final destination as the new ash, i thought u said it could compile but not properly.

Pretty much only tested Oldin, Pictochat, Mansion, Online Training as far as packing goes (basically... only used stages with a low number of textures --- easier to troubleshoot)

[VILE]

but when you compile do they compile correctly?

[picano]

As I said before, it "completes" --- but incorrectly.

[bonzai]

2.3 works great! If there is the slightest hope of a stage ASH, I'll be happy. (Tried hexing myself. Epic Fail.)