Info-only DLL for working with CMP/SUR/MAT files?

Sat May 14, 2005 11:26 am by WatercoolerWarrior

Has anyone coded, thought about coding, or seen a DLL that will just READ specific information from certain UTF files and return it in a form structured for easy consumption by other tools?

I'm asking about this because this functionality alone would be very useful as the core of a mod analysis tool; it could also be a very good foundation tool for other tools to use. The interesting thing is that most of the ship design tools out there already do this; however the code is completely integrated into a GUI so they can't be directly adapted to automated analysis.

Just curious about this one; the source code for some of the integrated tools could be turned into this I think (Anton's FlModelTool and the Freelancer XML Project come to mind). It should also be possible to do this by analyzing XML output from UTFXML.

Thu Jun 09, 2005 6:54 pm by Argh

Hmm. Well, if... say... this tool could somehow present that data in a way that was more useful than a hex-dump, then it might be worth having. The trouble is... UTF Edit already does that. The only problem with UTF Edit is that it lacks the proper context to interpret a lot of the nodes in UTF files.

In short... without the structural information to make the information more useful, I'm not sure it'd improve things much. But I may just be totally missing your point here- things like FLModel Cloner have come out've similar efforts, and they've been darn handy

Fri Jun 10, 2005 8:15 am by Louva-Deus

I will have to keep this in mind for our future projects.

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