PboDll - The ultimate BI file handling suite

[.kju [PvPscene]]

What is it?

PboDll is the project name and the engine for Eliteness and the Dos Tools.

Eliteness is the application recommended for the user preferring the standard GUI interaction.
The DOS Tools offer great flexibility and power. They can be used via the windows cmd shell or shell extensions.

• Very fast and universal.
• Works for OFP, OFPE, ArmA I and ArmA II.
• Works on XP, Vista and Win7.
• Extract pbos, pack pbos.

• Transform configs, rvmat, mission.sqm file into the engine binary format (rapify)
  and convert it from binary to human readable (deRapify).
• Can do different sorts of syntax and logic error (lint check).
• Extract the model.cfg from any p3d.
• Check the file format version of a file and output various useful basic information
  (DeFXY, DeP3d, DePac, DeRtm, DeWrp).
• Rename file paths easily inside PBO, Wrp, P3d and rvmats. Very powerful tool.

Not to mention to handle well all the crazy user specific file system setups and preprocessor tweaks.

Here you can find all the currently available tools for download:
http://dev-heaven.net/projects/mikero-pbodll/files


Who made it?

Largely coded by Mikero. Along with many excellent contributions by the community.
Mikero is well known for his long time community work at OFPEC and various projects.
He is also one of the major authors in the BIKI of the file format descriptions.

Contact:
http://dev-heaven.net/projects/mikero-pbodll/wiki


How can You contribute?

Here is another key aspect. Mikero is highly welcoming all types of contribution to the project.
The core idea of the DePbo module is to solve challenges once and share the functionality to anyone freely.
Even more coders are encouraged to check the c++ source, reviewing the code to improve it, suggest
new functionality or even became part of the project and help out in coding.

At the same time user feedback of all sorts is always very welcome.
Got a problem? Do not understand a detail? Want to suggest new functionality?

Feel free to visit the PboDll project site and share your thoughts and ideas.

Enjoy.

[scubaman3D]

awesome. Very useful.

[Soul_Assassin]

for real

[Yoma]

My contribution will be integration of certain tools into AddonSync2009.
I'm currently fiddling with queryaddons.exe to try and make something that can tell you what addons are needed to play a given mission.
I don't know if this is possible but it would be a great thing to have:
-select mission x
-have the tool disect it
-create a temp folder with required addons and the mission /possibly with a selection screen so users can still pick addons.
-launch the mission with it's required addons.

This is currently still somewhat in "dream" phase, but I must say Mikero and crew are doing a superb job and maybe we can get to a point where this dream becomes reality!
Also for now you must allready have the addons on disk, but maybe one day we could make some kind of "service" that can download whatever you need.

[.kju [PvPscene]]

mikero is looking for model.cfg experts to test and comment his tool:
ExtractModelCfg.exe

Extract P3d re-creates the model.cfg file (if any) from an odolv40/48 (arma/arma2) p3d

Download latest version and DePbo dll.
Put both in the same folder, launch via command line:

ExtractModelCfg NameOfP3d[.p3d]

Also works for a2 p3d. Feedback very welcome.

[TRexian]

Confirm the most recent version of the ExtractModelCFG.exe is the 1.60 from August 1.61 from October?

[.kju [PvPscene]]

ExtractModelCfg1.61.rar 2009-10-19 21:20:21

You can sort by date by clicking on the column.
The dll does the main work. So that one gets updated very frequently.

[gms]

mikero is looking for model.cfg experts to test and comment his tool:
ExtractModelCfg.exe



Download latest version and DePbo dll.
Put both in the same folder, launch via command line:

ExtractModelCfg NameOfP3d[.p3d]

Also works for a2 p3d. Feedback very welcome.

I did not verify, but at first look it seems working, the settings are correct, you only need to specify the axis.

[TRexian]

Does this rely on an ArmA install on the machine running it? Or admin privs?

Running it on a couple custom p3ds and get a returned error "could not create cfg." (That is after it does say nLods= # and otherwise appears to work.)

[.kju [PvPscene]]

Arma is not needed no. Admin privs maybe.

Best to create a ticket here and add all details and attach the p3d
for us to test:
http://dev-heaven.net/projects/mikero-pbodll/issues/new

Thanks so far