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Hi!
I've started to document oddworld's file formats, and then, I've found this thread.
It seems that Paul did some work already! But did he document it somewhere?
Anyway, if somewhone is interested in it, what I've done so far is available at http://hg.sitedethib.com/oddworld-formats/
So far, it provides full documentation of Indx and Palt formats, partial documentation for Demo, Bits, and NxtP, and a python3 module to handle that.
I'm quite interested in the missing bits of the Bits format, which would make me able to convert background files, and in the Path format, which seems to handle CAM's position, collision masks and object/character description. |
Awesome
How did you go about figuring out the DEMO stuff? I've been using IDA to reverse engineer the game exe to figure out how stuff is working. I know how "Bits" and "Anim" work. Both of these formats are different for odyssey and exodus though!
One thing I would really like to understand is how "Path" works, it uses some weird script type thing which I think could be similar to "Demo"? Only problem is that the offsets to things in these files is hard coded into the exe
