herbert3000

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Hi everyone, I'm back!
 

After I lost my progress due to a stupid mistake, I had to start all over again. Thanks Obama.

I finally finished the conversion of the 5th BCD mission (capture Colonel Below).

The coordinates of all soldiers, objects and routes have also been adapted to the upscaled map. As the map is now larger, the soldiers need longer to make their rounds. This could have an impact on the gameplay. If the soldiers' routes were synchronised with each other, they are now probably out of sync. I hope I didn't mess up anything else.

You can download the updated files here: https://www.mediafir...scaled.zip/file

Hi,

here's the latest version of my RWS to OBJ converter:

 CSF RWS-to-OBJ v1.1.zip   9.72KB   180 downloads

The source code is available here

It even comes with a simple import script for Blender.

Have fun!

Here are my worn physical copies of BEL and C3 (can't find BCD and C2).

@MoutezZ: Why are yours still sealed?

You've got it!
Here is a cheat sheet that shows you the ID and name of each entry in Armas.bdd:


This zip contains the entries of the other bdd files:
 CSF_BDD.zip   112.52KB   151 downloads

Hi everyone!

I've finished my work on a small tool that will allow us to convert all the compressed scripts from CSF into readable text files. This should make the game much more moddable.

Before you can convert the files, you'll have to unpack the *.pak archives.

Use the Commandos Developing Toolkit for that: https://github.com/I...s/cmdt/releases

 CSFFBS_Decoder.zip   7.09KB   226 downloads (v1.1)

Here's the binary script decoder.

Like most of my tools, this one also requires Java.

You can simply drag & drop the files you want to convert onto the *.bat file.

Or double-click the .bat and enter the filename.

 CSF PAK Creator v0.1.zip   3.73KB   96 downloads

Use my PAK Creator to put all the files back into a *.pak archive.
 

I've also uploaded the tools here: https://retrogamesva.../downloads/csf/

And the source code here: https://github.com/herbert3000/CSFFBS-Decoder

Nothing is impossible We just don't have the right tools yet.
The biggest problem is that most text files are compressed. If you open them with an editor you'll only see the string "CSFFBS" but can't do anything with them.
 
But I think I figured out how to decode those files into normal text files.
For testing purposes I have converted the following file. The game can read my generated text file and accepts changes.

43 53 46 46 42 53 00 7F 01 00 00 00 09 00 00 00  CSFFBS..........
04 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 00 00 00  ................
FF FF 02 00 03 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF 00 00 00 00  ÿÿ......ÿÿÿÿ....
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 FF FF 05 00 05 00 00 00  ........ÿÿ......
FF FF FF FF 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00  ÿÿÿÿ............
FF FF 05 00 07 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF 02 00 00 00  ÿÿ......ÿÿÿÿ....
00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 FF FF 05 00 00 00 00 00  ........ÿÿ......
FF FF FF FF 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00  ÿÿÿÿ............
FF FF 03 00 07 00 00 00 2E 49 4D 41 47 45 00 0A  ÿÿ.......IMAGE..
00 00 00 2E 46 4C 49 5F 4E 41 4D 45 00 05 00 00  ....FLI_NAME....
00 2E 46 4C 49 00 0C 00 00 00 2E 49 53 5F 47 45  ..FLI......IS_GE
4E 45 52 49 43 00 15 00 00 00 66 6F 74 6F 5F 61  NERIC.....foto_a
6C 65 6D 61 6E 5F 67 65 73 74 2E 70 6E 67 00 05  leman_gest.png..
00 00 00 67 31 37 34 00 05 00 00 00 67 31 37 35  ...g174.....g175
00                                               .

The resulting text file:

[
  .IMAGE "foto_aleman_gest.png"
  .FLI_NAME "g174"
  .FLI "g175"
  .IS_GENERIC "g174"
]

This is only a small step, a complete mission script contains hundreds of lines.

The SEC file is almost done, I'll have to create two more bridge sectors which can only be done by hand.

The left and lower part of the map was easy to make. The top right part not so much. Creating a quite complex navigation mesh with many different layers is not so much fun using a tool that was designed for making mostly flat maps. Have a look at the second screenshot - isn't that a mess?

Finally! It looks pretty good to me.

They've also updated their website: www.commandos-game.com

And here's the game's steam page: https://store.steamp...mandos_Origins/

Okay, I took a screenshot of a single tile and saved it as 16-bit R5G6B5 bitmap (with flipped row order):

79.TLG1.TILE1.BMP

 

This is the original resource file from The Mission 1937:

79.TLG1.bmp

(don't get confused by the .bmp extension, it's not an ordinary bitmap!)

 

Here I compared the two files:

comparison.png

 

So how does the compression/rle part work in detail?

Found the compression algorithm, it's LZO1X.

Now it should be possible to extract all sprites from the game.

This is what the unpacked tile 79 looks like:

 79.TLG1.BMP   16.07KB   49 downloads

Edit: Character sprites are compressed the same way.

 15_1.SPR1.bmp   70.07KB   56 downloads

Here are some of my thoughts:

You can't play the campaign in co-op.
But you can compete in 'Deathmatch' or 'Collect the Flag' modes for 2-8 players.

I haven't tried that yet, though.

Can someone who purchased the game confirm please what exactly the "Online Co-Op" tag on Steam means in practice? I don't suppose it means that you can play through the campaign with one buddy, rather the other multiplayer game modes, but it would be nice to know. Thank you.

It's impressive that you could create such amazing textures and squeeze them into 256x256 bitmaps!

I especially love the water in Burma, it looks super realistic.