[Release]WDF Extractor

Details:

I decided i would write my own Extractor works with all clients, has a few additions to the old extracter which sparkie wrote and released.

By default it will not override existing files, so you dont need to worry about backing up existing modifications, you can also change the destination directory so that you can store your extracted files somewhere else, however the client obviously wont use them if they arnt in the right place.

You can run the app from wherever you like. Also there is no difference between the 2 files added, just one is a zip and one is a rar.

Any problems please post them and ill see they are fixed.

Known Issues:

If you are using Windows 7 you may need to "Run as Administrator".

Requires:

The 4.0 .Net Framework.

Really useful release!

what does this do exactly?

The client primarily looks for all of its graphical content in 2 files, c3.wdf and data.wdf, these are huge data stores, the client then searches for updated and extra graphical content in the 2 folders c3 and data, the content in the 2 folders overrides the content in the data stores.

What this app does is to extract the files in the 2 data stores and put them in the correct folders, so you can create modifications to them, where previously you might not have had the files which you would have liked to have edited.

This is nothing new to what unknownone's does which is in the sticky, however i remember his sometimes crashed or hung, so ive written one that doesnt have those issues.

System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'WDFExtracter, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

You need to rename Extractor.dll to WDFExtracter.dll

Opps, didnt even think about that, ill upload the correct version now.

uhh , when i used this & open my co folder which file do i chose to start extracting ?

Depends what you wanna do...

You can extract individual ani files, if thats what you want, or ini files, or you can do a bulk extract and do c3.wdf or data.wdf depending again on what you wanna do.

i wanna extract the c3.wdf & data.wdf but i can't find them

Change the type to .wdf when you goto browse, and they are in the root of your conquer folder.

Really useful release!

thanks .

have never had any issues with sparkie's extractor, been using since i started editing, cross platform all the way to vista & 7. kinda reinventing the wheel ain't it?

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Originally Posted by Zatoichi have never had any issues with sparkie's extractor, been using since i started editing, cross platform all the way to vista & 7. kinda reinventing the wheel ain't it?

Yeah it is, ive had a number of problems with it, it misses files, just hangs, states its extracting when atually its not doing anything, im not the only one who has had issues with it, his thread is full of similar issues. I was just interested in learning the file structure, so i made this to do that, im now working on a repacker so that theres no need for both the .wdf files and the folders.

This one also utilizes the latest .net framework, so instead of taking forever to extract one .ani file or one .ini file, it will extract an entire .wdf file in under 2 minutes.

very cool then. The repacker is a good idea and will definitely help folks who prep a client for their servers (you could look at offering diff forms of encrypt for folks at a price too, for protection - i know we're looking into this), and if you got more speed that's a bonus. I have the .zip version of sparkies tool, i noticed that the rar had issues, could just have been the compression tool freaking for a moment.

I'll thank ya and DL the repacker when you get that done =p