Tropico 3/4/5 HPK Archiver

[nickelc]

i think i had no issues with GA: Rome and zlib, but for some reason i can't use lz4 to create archives for Victor Vran.
but it's not a problem because Victor Vran accepts zlib compressed chunks.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

I know a long time ago, I ended up including the game zlib.dll in my binary so that the implementation of the compression would match what the game expects. If it's possible for you to do the same with the DLL Victor Vran uses to handle LZ4, that might be the best solution.

My guess is I would have to go back to zlib to fix GA:Rome but in doing so, I might break other games. It just isn't worth it at this point.

 

[Madbey9]

Please, could you upload version for GA:Rome for me

 

[ChoGGi]

I linked to it in my post, it's a different program.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Please, could you upload version for GA:Rome for me

Like ChoGGi said, get nickelc's version from GitHub here: https://github.com/nickelc/hpk/releases

 

[Madbey9]

Hmm which one?

 

[ChoGGi]

i686 if on a 32bit OS, x86_64 otherwise. I'd assume the difference between gnu and msvc is the compiler used, so either or?

 

[nickelc]

i686 if on a 32bit OS, x86_64 otherwise. I'd assume the difference between gnu and msvc is the compiler used, so either or?

it's the used toolchain, MinGW or Microsoft Visual C++.

Hmm which one?

x86_64-*-msvc is way to go for most people. the rest is for completeness.

 

[Madbey9]

Ok thanks guys

 

[Madbey9]

Version 3.3 don't even work for me

 

[ChoGGi]

That's the version I used to extract that example image on the previous page, could be the .hpk archive is corrupt?

 

[nickelc]

That's the version I used to extract that example image on the previous page, could be the .hpk archive is corrupt?

Is the billboad.hpk from GA:Rome? Because extraction works fine for me.

 

[ChoGGi]

Yeah, I tried with the other hpks as well, no issues with any of them.

 

[lonewolf96]

How to instal this?

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Just extract and run.

 

[lonewolf96]

I mean, what about SharpZipLib. Where it goes to?

 

[FordGT90Concept]

SharpZipLib is baked into the executable so not sure why you're asking?

LZ4.dll needs to be in the same folder as the executable.

 

[ChoGGi]

Has anyone had any luck decompiling the Victor Vran lua files?
My copy of luadec gives this error:
file.lua: float format mismatch in precompiled chunk
unluac's error:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException: The input chunk is using an unrecognized floating point format: 9.057787542654976E15

I tried inserting some 00? bytes to match them up, but that didn't work
luadec: memory allocation error: block too big
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException: The input chunk reports an unsupported instruction size: 8 bytes

 

[nickelc]

For Victor Vran you have to insert 0404 instead of 0408.

Edit: Some details

00000000: 1b4c 7561 5300 1993 0d0a 1a0a 0404 0878  .LuaS..........x
00000010: 5600 0000 0000 0000 2877 4001 1740 436f  V.......(w@..@Co
00000020: 6d6d 6f6e 4c75 612f

When you look at the byte sequence 04 04 xx xx 08 in the header of vic_console.lua then you can see that the sequence is followed by two check numbers, 32bit integer 22136 (0x7856) and 64bit float 370.5. In the Survival Mars files 22136 is saved as 64bit integer.

So, you have to insert 04 xx where xx defines the size of the datatype for the integer number.

 

[ChoGGi]

Ah, thank you!

 

[nickelc]

I released hpk v0.3.4 to support fixing Victor Vran's Lua files on extraction with the --fix-lua-files flag.

 

[ChoGGi]

Thank you again

 

[CarlosGf]

hpk v.0.3.4 does not run, opens cmd and then closes

 

[ChoGGi]

What cmd are you running and on what archive from what game?

Edit: double clicking on it won't do anything since it's a cmd line program, there's no GUI for you to click.

 

[CarlosGf]

I tried them all, but they all opened and closed. I am trying to extract the hpk from Tropic 5, I extract with what I put in this post but it has parts that stay in codes ..

How does it work then?