Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-93.0.16.90-20170228172554/@comment-26393217-20170407201620

One is working quite well: Dark Angel's xcr editor v1.0 (XCR.exe).

It can open and display any xcr archive in the game, and extract (export) any file inside of it, as well as encoding/decoding files in the working directory.

It just get a problem when xml files have been packed unencoded (other unencoded files are fine: rle, bmp, wav, gom). As it is specific to new (v1.03.25) xml files, I suspect a xml compatibility (are they truly v1.0 xml files, or rather, can old Dark Angel' program open any v1.0 xml file?). Whenever I try to read or export those xml files from within the xcr archive, I get an error and I have to kill the process. The good new is that those 3 xcr archives, Army, Building and Items may be peered at with a Hex Editor because text is in plain format. Copying and pasting text with a Hex Editor in csv format is boring but I've started with Army.cfg. Items.xcr is easier because it's only Items.xml plus a header.

Another problem is that the encoding process (used in Campaign.xcr) can't manage accentuated characters, whereas the game is able to display them!

In short, I can see what needs to be changed or translated, I translated Items.xml (without accentuated characters), and I'll can have my version of Army.cfg and Building.cfg, but I can't use them in game as long as I can't bring them in the proper xcr files (importing them is not posssible since I can't select the original file they are to replace). Items.xcr is all that I need (even without accents) to release the complete French translation (I'd need an artist to alter the few bmp with English words on them, as well).

You already directed me toward a more modern xcr manager. When I run it, it closes in the second, and I have no clue why (bad install of .NET?).

Now that I talk about it, there's one thing I didn't try: making clean .cfg or .xml files, encoding them and importing them in v1.03.23 xcr (replacing the files therein). Does v1.03.25 exe look necessarily for an unencoded Items.xml in Items.xcr, or will it decode it if it finds an encoded file, instead of an unencoded one?

Thank you for your patience.