Return of XIDX: with bug fixes and updates for M2TW.

**Tellos Athenaios** · 01-17-2012, 20:34

Update with the following bug fixes:

Bugs

Fully zero out the buffers before using them, instead of just assigning '\0' to the first byte. This makes valgrind a bit happier (quieter), which is a good thing.
Fix a bug in sound packing code. A 1 had crept in where a 4 should have been. Ouch.
Some code cleanup to have less code in a few macro's.

Misc

Generate statically linked binaries for Windows. This has the benefit of actually working if the user doesn't have the MinGW version of a couple of DLLs installed on his system (which is likely). The system I used for testing of the previous release masked the problem because these DLLs were present...

**Tellos Athenaios** · 02-24-2012, 21:09

Minor update, containing a few miscellaneous fixes and decided to call it 1.0:

Fix bug in generated file names when extracting event packs caused by not dividing the log(position in the pack) by log(10). This ensures that when you list the files (dir, ls, find) they will appear in the same order as they should be placed in the pack because of how lexicographic sorting works. (Simplifies repacking.)
Fix version reporting.
Some minor improvements to the readme.

**Tellos Athenaios** · 03-26-2012, 20:07

Version 1.1 brings:

Bugfixes
Fix memory leak resulting from exit() in the usage info function.

Misc
Change naming conventions for binary blobs extracted from event (EVT) packs. Numbering now starts at zero for every "frame", rather than just at the beginning of the pack. This change would allow other tools to guess the event (bank) that corresponds to a given file name based on the number before the bin suffix.

**Tellos Athenaios** · 04-15-2012, 21:03

New version available.

Bugfix
Version 1.2 fixes a memory/file descriptor leak when opening archives with the wrong archive type flag. (For example specifying the -a flag for animations packs when trying to list the contents of a sound IDX/DAT pair.)

**Tellos Athenaios** · 10-02-2012, 01:07

New version available:

Bugfixes

Fix non-virtual destructors
Skip packing of EVT blobs which do not conform to the filename conventions used by XIDX.
Fix error messages when packing an EVT blob fails
Improve file name parsing of EVT blobs (no longer limited to files from the current directory).

Feature

Add makefile flag to skip cross compilation (MinGW targets).

Reminder: beware of the data folder
XIDX rewrites paths so they are relative to the root of the mod (or installation if you do not use a mod folder), and it assumes that the "root" data directory is the last "data/" in the path. This is pretty much necessary to make packing work by default on Windows (unless you wish to try you hand at this sort of thing, but it does mean that your last "data/" must be the right "data/". Otherwise the path will be written to an invalid value. Example: "mods\EBII\data\sounds\data\SFX\effect.wav" would be rewritten to "data\SFX\effect.wav" instead of "data\sounds\data\SFX\effect.wav". So if the game tries to load "data\sounds\data\SFX\effect.wav" because that is what you put in your code, it would fail. Easy workaround: do not have data folders inside your data folder, at least not in the parts that you want to pack with XIDX.

This message does not apply to packing events, since the tool does not store filenames for those in generate IDX/DAT packs anyway. Note that for events you will want to sort filenames alphabetically so the filename convention for EVT blobs will guarantee that they appear in the right order. Example command for packing EVT blobs:

Code:

dir /S /A:-D /B /O:N "path/to/EVT/blobs/directory" "*.bin" | xidx -cbef "path/to/mods/my_mod/data/sounds/events"

**Tellos Athenaios** · 10-13-2012, 17:20

Version 1.4 of XIDX is now available and it contains the following updates:

Features

Add support for creating RTW event packs (add support for the RTW file version stamp)
Extended the Readme with a lot more information on how to correctly generate packs, in particular event packs.

Fixes

Fix file version stamps for event packs (though the game seems to ignore them anyway)
Don't forget the Windows users: extend previous bug fix for sniffing out type numbers to paths with backslashes in them as well.