Acewell, posted Thu Jan 03, 2019 12:11 am (41835)

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the redcup2.pxp sample extracted fine for me, he might be using an old version of the script.

aluigi, posted Thu Jan 03, 2019 6:34 am (41839)

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Thanks Acewell, you are right

monako, posted Wed May 29, 2019 10:52 am (48098)

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aluigi wrote:

And yes, finally the community has a way to extract ALL the files from any PXP archive made by ZenStudio... just in time for Pinball FX3 released 3 days ago.
Script 0.3:
http://aluigi.org/bms/zen_studio_pxp.bms

How do I re-compress the txt.pxp file? Please upload the bms file.
The name of the game is Pinball FX3.

LolHacksRule, posted Wed May 29, 2019 5:10 pm (48101)

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Impossible, the script uses an assembly only supporting decompression...

LolHacksRule, posted Sat Jan 28, 2023 3:44 am (75186)

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LolHacksRule wrote:

Impossible, the script uses an assembly only supporting decompression...

Actually, you CAN do three things to mod PXPs in Zen's games by using flag 0 per file entry (to disable funky compression) at the moment at the cost of your memory and time (At least for Pinball FX2 on PC, haven't tried PFX3 or other consoles):
1. Hex edit related file entries in a PXP to use it for reading modified raw data over the original data.
2. Manually compile a custom PXP with all entries having the flag (Ridiculously memory consuming) with raw data for each, can only be done if you have either extracted the orig PXP or have assets.
3. Hex edit all entries in PXP to use the flag, and use reimport.bat to replace the compressed data.

Be sure to check the offset definitions before and after modifications.

LolHacksRule, posted Sun Feb 05, 2023 9:10 pm (75307)

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LolHacksRule wrote:

LolHacksRule wrote:

Impossible, the script uses an assembly only supporting decompression...

Actually, you CAN do three things to mod PXPs in Zen's games by using flag 0 per file entry (to disable funky compression) at the moment at the cost of your memory and time (At least for Pinball FX2 on PC, haven't tried PFX3 or other consoles):
1. Hex edit related file entries in a PXP to use it for reading modified raw data over the original data.
2. Manually compile a custom PXP with all entries having the flag (Ridiculously memory consuming) with raw data for each, can only be done if you have either extracted the orig PXP or have assets.
3. Hex edit all entries in PXP to use the flag, and use reimport.bat to replace the compressed data.

Be sure to check the offset definitions before and after modifications.

Actually, at least for PFX2 on Steam (UPD: and also PFX3 for Win10 [prob Steam] too)... You DON'T have to make custom PXPs to load custom assets (for tables ONLY, anything lowercase MUST use PXP), you could load the entire table in uncompressed form in any folder name without the PXP (obv gonna consume more memory) or load external assets in a folder with an identical PXP name (ie PlantsVsZombies) overtop while having the original PXP (please read below for a minimal structure that doesn't make the game crash), this is best for localization files. Note for Win10, you can't play tables you don't have licenses for, obv. Read this for more info. https://twitter.com/LolHacksRule/status ... 29825?s=20

Here's a structure of an externally loadable table with an existing PXP with minimal assets, * means either a number or your game language.

Code:

PlantsVsZombies
  dotmatrix (unmodified)
  game
    skeleton_00.py / skeleton.bgl   skeleton.dbgl
  gfx (unmodified)
  meta
    achievement_0*.pxt
    icon.pxt
    icon_demo.pxt
    icon_bw.pxt
    loading.pxt
    table.cfg (needed to detect the table)
  sfx (unmodified)
  HTP_*.lst (freely modifiable)
  table.cfg
  table_txt_*.lst (freely modifiable)