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Ultima SDK with UOP support

ruosi — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:38:11 GMT

Well, i have a little time to update converted uops to muls but if i promised to provide it ...

I released Ultima SDK dll with UOP support (including source code). It has compatibility with UOFiddler, just overwrite fiddler's ultima.dll and change art.mul, gumpart.mul, sound.mul paths to uop files. Artidx.mul, soundidx.mul, gumpidx.mul should be blank. After doing this, restart Fiddler and it will read items/land tiles/maps/gumps/sounds from new uop files directly. The code is included with my copyrights ;) Have a fun.

http://ruosi.org/load/ultima_sdk_with_uop_support/3-1-0-8

Tale about two stupids (UPDATED 12 July 2012)

ruosi — Tue, 29 May 2012 05:58:02 GMT

Well, i didn't want discuss that code and his author but when i got the link to runuo.com forums i changed my mind. Epila (who wrote some comments to my previous post here) started a topic at runuo.com forums (http://www.runuo.com/community/threads/the-new-uop-file-format.514994/#post-3885301) looking for help with new 2d UOP files format. After reading that topic i had a problem - i couldn't stop laughing! The title of this story tells us about the two stupids. OK, meet the first dumb - mr. HellRazor ;) His answers in that topic are great! It's filled with very 'good' logic. First post (#4) quote: 'Perhaps they have 2 files in the .UOP, one being the index and one being the MUL?' Only not very smart man can imagine that smart guys (EA Mythic are smart guys, aren't they?) will pack current files without any change without compression to another file adding extra metadata to it. Second post (#6) quote: 'Check out Jeff's OpenUO SDK source to see how he did it: http://openuo.codeplex.com/' At this moment i started laughing. Do you really want to see how he did it? Ok, i'll show you 'HOW HE DID IT' ;)

Opening the OpenUO subversion, we need file FileIndex.cs because it contains Jeff's changes to 'support' uops - http://openuo.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/75337#1642112

Looking for method ReadUOPEntries() and let's look at the code inside it. It contains the following code:

int x = 0;

foreach (var uopEntry in uopEntries)

{

if (2855 == x)

{

}

x++;

// creating new index entry from the collection entry and adding it to the entries list

}

Well, when i first time saw this - i was stucked. I think you too - he added counter variable and used it for empty if check? WTF? He compared counter with 2855. Why 2855, not 3000 or 99999? I can explain. First time when Jeff looked at uop format he thought that it's now just a collection of ordered data chunks and he can simply concatenate chunks and assign it their order index (from 0 to chunks count -1). Man said - man did. But soon he realized that he needs index - valid index for chunks. Because each chunk in UO has an ID. Really each dataset (art, gump, sound, etc) has and index table (from 0 to table limit, for art it's 0x13fdc, for gumps it's 0x10000 etc) and that table has skips. Yep - first chunk can have index 0 and second can have index 34! He looked at artlegacymul.uop and found that it keeps 2 parts. First part is land tiles (2855) and second is static tiles. He thought - well it's a solution! He just added check for 2855 and separate tiles. But he soon realized that it's not a solution because he still cannot get index data ;) After that he stopped development of that method ;) That's why we see in code above that strange check. Just note that this code tries to handle ANY uop (not only art, so 2855 check is absurd for gumps/sounds/maps) That's why OpenUO still doesn't have UOP solution and UO Fiddler too from March 13 to May 29 ;)

That was a short (;)) story about dumb and dumber in uo freeshards communities ;) Thanks for attention ;)

P.S. Hint for RunUO Team - you can find another dirty hack for reading land tiles from map muls (you found one working with offset) but it will be more complex ;) But it's not the way like OSI uses (and me too) ;)

P.P.S. Just forgot to send greetings to my old dear friend Phantom, how are you? ;)

P.P.P.S. UPDATE: I should apologise for last update about Vorspire. Problem was in someone (Ryan, did you?) who wiped HellRazor's post about Jeff's fail. The next post in that thread by Vorspire was really an answer to HellRazor's one, but not as a replacement for it. Just wanted to clear that situation, but it doesn't change the facts about HellRazor posts and Jeff's code -> so the thread's name is still valid ;)

UO Classic client muls (version 7.0.25.7)

ruosi — Tue, 22 May 2012 15:13:07 GMT

The new EA Mythic format was successfully decoded ;) I uploaded all muls (including index files). Usage: just download required archive, unpack it to uo classic directory and enjoy ;) You can use UO Fiddler or Inside UO (with some restrictions to tiles above 0x3FFF range) and viewing client's arts, gumps, sounds and maps.

http://69.64.34.13/ruosi/7.0.25.7/Art.zip - art.mul and artidx.mul ~40MB

http://69.64.34.13/ruosi/7.0.25.7/Gumps.zip gumpart.mul and gumpidx.mul ~18MB

http://69.64.34.13/ruosi/7.0.25.7/Maps.zip map0(0x,1,1x,2,2x,3,4,5).mul ~76MB

http://69.64.34.13/ruosi/7.0.25.7/Sounds.zip sound.mul and soundidx.mul ~102MB

P.S. I removed converter from file archive because that converter version will not work with new format and i will not release new converter ;)

Nice job, EA Mythic!

ruosi — Tue, 22 May 2012 09:07:49 GMT

Recent UO Classic patch (up to 600MB) changed arts, gumps, sounds and maps storage method again ;) Grats, EA Mythic ;)

P.S. Maps 'mixing' is too easy, isnt't it, EA? But art/gump/sound mixing is great ;)

Just kidding

ruosi — Fri, 18 May 2012 17:50:03 GMT

Well, i'm very suprised receiving comments and e-mails about 'corrupted' archive 1.6.0.0 ;) Did you see the news' date or date in txt file inside archive? Where's your sense of humor, guys? It's just 1st April joke ;) You are really thinking that i will release my code to you? Ha-ha. You are dumb if you believed in it ;) Just use your fingers on your keyboard and start working! You could write all UO expansions' support while you tried to open that damn archive ;)

Artidx.mul, gumpidx.mul and soundidx.mul

ruosi — Wed, 09 May 2012 16:14:20 GMT

I uploaded artidx.mul, gumpidx.mul and soundidx.mul files for 7.0.25.6 client. With art.mul, gumpart.mul and sound.mul generated by my converter tool (http://ruosi.org/load/legacy_uop_to_mul_converter/3-1-0-5) it can be used to view uo item's art, gumps and sounds in any viewer (fiddler, insideuo, etc.). Files will be auto updating with every new client patch but generator tool for that files will not be released ;)

Link - http://ruosi.org/load/idx_mul_7_0_25_6/2-1-0-7

RUOSI 1.6.0.0 released!

ruosi — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 06:14:00 GMT

I finally decided to release the latest RUOSI version!
You can download it from File Archive (http://ruosi.org/load/ruosi_1_6_0_0/3-1-0-6)
Enjoy!

A little converter added

ruosi — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:16:59 GMT

There are a new programme in file archive - converter from legacy uops to muls - http://ruosi.org/load/legacy_uop_to_mul_converter/3-1-0-5

Note: it works only with 2d clients uops (not 3d - they have different formats and programme for 3d ones will not be distributed).

Happy Birthday, Dear Wyatt!

ruosi — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:02:14 GMT

As i predicted almost a year ago EA merged 2d and 3d clients data files! Now 2d client uses .uop data instead of mul! Mul dead, long live uop! It's death for most freeshards (they cannot use latest client updates) ;) Thank you, EA! Finally ;)

Для тех кто в танке -> "С днем варенья, Вят!" - сказали в ЕА и кильнули мулы :)

HS: packet/gump guides

ruosi — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:03:29 GMT

Really, that guides were completed in early November 2010, but it was available only using special secret url (passed to good friends ;)). Now, i've fully completed HS booster and think i can release it for public lol Good luck to outsiders ;)