@SimGuruModSquad Request for updated resource information

Some users over at ModTheSims have succesfully extracted the new XML's. I can't post links yet... :/ But it's post #75 in the Sims4XmlExtractor thread in the creator's forum. Scarletqueenkat discovered the method.

Here is the link: http://modthesims.info/showthread.php?p=4714257#post4714257 -- XMLExtractor (the tool that that thread is about) cannot successfully deal with the deltabuild file post-patch, but what does work is extract the resource (0x62E94D38-0x00000000-0xF1352E740C4710BA) with s4pe first and then export to XML from that. Haven’t verified it personally, but there are positive reports in that thread from others.

There's still some confusion as the original succesful method was actually because they made a mistake and extracted from the ClientFullBuild instead of the DeltaBuild, but one user tried it too and it seems he was extracting from the DeltaBuild. Waiting on confirmation!

Hey!

The change to combined tuning was purely an optimization change. More efficient to load binary data than raw XML.

Answers:

1) XML will still work. The runtime supports loading of both formats. So tuning mods should not be affected by this change, unless the mods are broken due to other functional changes we have made.

2) Simdata.bt. Will work on that. Note that we bumped to version 0x101 back on the careers patch and it was a pretty minor change.

3) CAS Part .bt. Will work on that, not sure what we did there off the top of my head.

4) tdescs coming soon. I will also look into providing you the new combined tuning file in the old XML format.

Will get #4 to you as soon as I can. I had been meaning to get something out to you yesterday, but was a hectic day. Also, for the record we do consider modders when we make these kinds of changes but sometimes we have no choice but to make drastic changes. Appreciate your guys' patience.

-SGMS

Thanks for the info! Us modders for now are unable to extract any files from the new binary combined tuning file, so that combined file in XML format would be awesome! And maybe information on the binary combined tuning file, so perhaps the modders can update the extraction tools too to handle the new format.

As requested, new bt files posted: here and here. Thanks!

"SimGuruModSquad;13463521" wrote:
I will also look into providing you the new combined tuning file in the old XML format.

This would be excellent – I imagine this would make it easier to be able to compare exactly what changed with the patch, and would also allow us to update our mods independently of tools being updated to work with the new format. Thanks in advance =)

"SimMarten;13463573" wrote:
Thanks for the info! Us modders for now are unable to extract any files from the new binary combined tuning file, so that combined file in XML format would be awesome! And maybe information on the binary combined tuning file, so perhaps the modders can update the extraction tools too to handle the new format.

We already know the format, it is a Simdata files. My guess is that the DataTool doesn't work simply because the file is large.

Thank you very much, this is very useful.