Quote: Originally Posted by
Dylbot 
Can you give me some idea as to how you worked this out? It'd make completing the wiki a lot easier.
Don't expect it to be easy. AT ALL.
SERIOUSLY.
If you're not comfortable with reading hexadecimal, don't bother reading this.
By comfortable, I mean you should be able to translate the single precision floating point value BDA3D70A to "slightly greater than -0.07999". Not necessarily in your head, but at least using pen and paper.
Crash course:
I used the following tools (just google them):
-Notepad++ (vastly improved version of notepad, it opens, displays, and edits any type of file)
-HxD (hex editor because notepad++ doesn't have much in the way of hex support)
-winRAR (just to unrar something... you should have it already)
1. Download and unrar this extracted version of the gamedata files I've prepared
HERE.
2. Pick one of the folders. I started with \gd_weap_repeater_pistol\.
3. Open InportTable.txt, ExportTable.txt, and NameTable.txt. You'll probably want to keep them in separate windows.
4. Open up HxD.
With it, open "\gd_weap_repeater_pistol\body\body1.WeaponPartDef inition" (for starters).
5. Select all the contents in the
middle of the screen. The hex code, I mean. Press ctrl+c to copy them.
6. Open Notepad++. Press ctrl+v to paste all the hex into one line of a new text document. You can now close HxD if you like.
7. This file only has one string in it. Find it.
----Everything else is le-dwords.
--That is, 4 byte long words with the least significant byte first.
EX: the first bytes of the file are
Code:
88 00 00 00 C2 01 00 00
but the words are actually
----Strings are formatted like this:
-le-dword indicating length of the string, including terminal null byte.
-series of single byte ascii characters
-a single null byte (00) at the end. (THIS IS NOT PART OF THE NEXT DWORD!)
----The only string in the file is:
Code:
04 00 00 00 42 4C 52 00
00000004 = 4d = 4 characters in the string
42 = B
4C = L
52 = R
00 = null
This string obviously indicates the prefix of the repeating pistol, "BLR"
8. Now that you've found the string, make the file as easy to read as possible.
I used a combination of macros and (up in the menubar of notepad++) the TextFX -> convert tools to make the endless list of hex look like this:
(big endian now... most significant byte first)
Code:
00000088
000001C2
00000000
00000243
.
.
.
Don't format the string like this,though, because you might get confused later.
9. Translate each dword into it's decimal value.
Code:
00000088=136
000001C2=450
00000000=0
00000243=579
.
.
.
Yes I know there's a lot of them. You'll get finished faster if you don't complain.
10. The guessing games begin!
You should still have the ~~~~~Table.txt files open.
Now go look for things in the tables that seem to match up with the decimal values.
The majority will be in NameTable.txt, but the first word is actually in ExportTable.txt.
"136 = WeaponPartDefinition'Body.body1'"
What you do now is up to you.
I've discovered that near the end of the body1 file is:
Code:
FFFFFFF5 -11d (it 10=AttributeDefinition'd_attributes.WeaponDamage')
00000192 402d (nt "ModifierType")
00000000
00000094 148d (nt "ByteProperty")
00000000
00000008 8d
00000000
00000197 407d (??)
00000000
00000056 86d (nt "BaseModifierValue")
00000000
00000244 580d (nt "StructProperty")
00000000
00000078 120d (nt "Body")
00000000
00000043 67d (nt "AttributeInitializationData")
00000000
0000005A 90d (nt "BaseValueConstant")
00000000
000000F4 244d (nt "FloatProperty")
00000000
00000004 4d
00000000
BDA3D70A (float ~~ -0.08d)
(nt = name table)
(it = item table)
GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!
I hope this helps someone with more file I/O experience than I have.
[Borderlands] Weapon Parts + Effects
Re: [Borderlands] Weapon Parts + Effects 
. Could probably throw a few of the strings on here later. 
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