2K15 Explorer [WIP] [v0.285 Released]

[TBM]

Do it for the modding community, Greg. For us.

[Graveyard]

i would NEVER EVER EVER EVER sell any tool that i make.

nice to hear that from you

[skoadam]

It make no sense for me, i dont understand this conversation. Im not a big fan of sell tools or mods, ofc i see small difference between mods and tools, all can edit, units can programming/decoding. Still all of us spend maaaaaany hours on mods or tools. For me the best solution is donating, free will. Like Vlad said, he can take this time and do something else, hes not doing this with love for this game and i see no problem with this. He want to earn money, no problem, its his choice, whats wrong with this guys, cmon. Greg want to do it freeware, great. But guys please dont judge them, its unfair.

edit: stop forcing those guys to work together, they will do their own way.

[Andrew]

Completely understand your position, guys. I'm just saying, to the community as a whole, let's avoid a big, unproductive flame war over these matters.

[buddaking]

Please release that tool @ vlad. I am welling to spend money on it asap. If it's ready, please provide me a link to it and i will purchase it. Thank you.

[bigh0rt]

Please release that tool @ vlad. I am welling to spend money on it asap. If it's ready, please provide me a link to it and i will purchase it. Thank you.

This is not the thread you're looking for...

[buddaking]

I was referring to vlad, not you bighort. If you're not going to provide me with a link to the thread, then why reply to me? Im 100% positive vlad read this thread as well, why make it such a big deal...

[JBulls]

So, up to you. Can help and make the modding possible as soon as tomorrow, also getting a special credit. Or wait for me to decode that myself. Or in case your tool gets released asap, i think, everyone would be grateful

What if someone like Greg asked for help from you? That would probably speed up development of his own tool, beneficial to the community etc

[skoadam]

So, up to you. Can help and make the modding possible as soon as tomorrow, also getting a special credit. Or wait for me to decode that myself. Or in case your tool gets released asap, i think, everyone would be grateful

What if someone like Greg asked for help from you? That would probably speed up development of his own tool, beneficial to the community etc

This damn good question. Vlad is able to help release free editor?

[PepsiWithCoke]

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[bigh0rt]

So, up to you. Can help and make the modding possible as soon as tomorrow, also getting a special credit. Or wait for me to decode that myself. Or in case your tool gets released asap, i think, everyone would be grateful

What if someone like Greg asked for help from you? That would probably speed up development of his own tool, beneficial to the community etc

He'd probably refuse because he would see no money from it.

Andrew was pretty clear in his request. I'm sorry you refuse to even make an attempt to consider it.

[nesa24]

2K15 Explorer [WIP] [Texture Showcase for now]

i think thats topic name but people are spinning talk around

greg do what you think is best and release once ready
money/notmoney talk is endless

[bigh0rt]

2K15 Explorer [WIP] [Texture Showcase for now]

i think thats topic name but people are spinning talk around

greg do what you think is best and release once ready
money/notmoney talk is endless

It's not endless. It's over.

Back to your regularly scheduled program, folks.

[Vl@d Zola Jr.]

What if someone like Greg asked for help from you? That would probably speed up development of his own tool, beneficial to the community etc

If that happens, we'll find an answer to your question.
Depends on the sort of help. But if i possess a piece of information, which i'm not looking to take any personal benefits from, i don't really see a point, why i would keep it secret.

[JBulls]

if i possess a piece of information, which i'm not looking to take any personal benefits from.

Yeah this is specifically what I was wanting to know. Thanks for the clarification.

[-scarface-]

when do this tool be available?

great work btw

[tatlopuyo]

What file did you use as sample for this? Those are global textures.

[Vl@d Zola Jr.]

Yeah this is specifically what I was wanting to know. Thanks for the clarification.

You're welcome.

[gregkwaste]

What if someone like Greg asked for help from you? That would probably speed up development of his own tool, beneficial to the community etc

If that happens, we'll find an answer to your question.
Depends on the sort of help. But if i possess a piece of information, which i'm not looking to take any personal benefits from, i don't really see a point, why i would keep it secret.

Well the only question i have atm, is how its possible to import files much bigger than the original ones, without tweaking the 0A offsets. Unless thats the way to actually do it or unless the game simply ignores the 0A, i am not sure

[PeacemanNOT]

Any idea when this tool will be released?

[gregkwaste]

Any idea when this tool will be released?

Planning to make a first release in the next days. It will have some quite limited features for now.

• Archive Exploring
• Texture Previewing and Extraction (Converter to legacy DDS formats)
• Archive Content extraction (Zip's Zlib's Gzip's Ogg's, basically whatever is in there)
• Sound (ogg) Previewing

I can implement importers in order to import data back to the archives, but i want to find out at first how to add larger files in place of the originals. I think i have to make some tests on my own this time. Its easy to fix the local archive offsets, but i am really not sure what will happen with the rest of the archives whose addresses in 0A will not be correct.

[JBulls]

I can implement importers in order to import data back to the archives, but i want to find out at first how to add larger files in place of the originals. I think i have to make some tests on my own this time. Its easy to fix the local archive offsets, but i am really not sure what will happen with the rest of the archives whose addresses in 0A will not be correct.

I'm betting crash.

[gregkwaste]

Hey

i'm quite finished with the first version of the app. I think it fullfills its job to easily explore all of the game files. Importers will be added in time.

I took a small break from that, and within an hour of searching i managed to parse a 3D player model, which (to be honest) was my very first intention when starting playing around with the 2K files.

I think that i'll manage to write an Importer script as well for Blender, just to let anyone play around with the models. The real deal for me are the stadiums but the player models are a good start i guess. My new trivial and skill earning goal will be to be able to preview the 3d models in the opengl viewer of the explorer. Until then Blender will do its job

Here is a quick preview of a player skeleton. No faces for now. I have already parsed some data which 99% are face triangle strips, but i need to fix my script a bit to make them work.

So only points on this screenshot

[Andrew]

Impressive stuff. Keep up the great work!

[PeacemanNOT]

It's great to get some good news. Great job man.