Rebuilding Spellborn

Hey Cow,


Actualy Acid and I are in daily contact on the vent server that Acid has running. We play DDO on a regular basis so that's one of the reasons that we speak each other a lot.

There was a certain moment while browsing through the files of spellborn and unreal 2004 that I found a few things that looked simular. After some testing and manual editing in a hex editor I could open the sound files in the unreal editor 2004.

Next step was making a program which could do the editing of the files automaticly since the manual editing was a lot of work.

Talking with Acid about this and giving him my program made clear that while he was testing there was still a lot that didn't work correctly with this way of rewriting the Spellborn files.


A few things were changed in the program and now the soundfiles and textures could be done correctly for most of the files.

Certain files gave problems because of the fact that the game of Spellborn is made with a different version of the unreal engine and the devs of Spellborn added and maybe changed things in the core of unreal itself since they had the the means to access that code and compile their own version of the Unreal engine.


Due to this the information in the unreal package files have some things that are different from the "official" unreal 2004 files.

Acid has done some great work with the files we got rewritten correctly at the moment like the video he made earlier, but and there's a big BUT,

we still have not a good way to get good access to the animation files which contain the skeletal meshes and the movements that belong to them.

This is something that I may find out in a later moment, but since I also want to do some different things during this Christmas period I'm not working on it at the moment.


But don't worry, Acid and I will get our fingers behind it is my guess.


So , Happy New Year or "Gelukkig Nieuw Jaar" from the Netherlands.


Greetings Jan-Willem.