Expac files extraction

korsar · October 18, 2017, 1:23pm

Yeah, thanks, man, you helped much.

Chthon · October 18, 2017, 1:27pm

Ah so the procedure is essentially similar to TQ asset import in some ways

I am interested in developer response to this issue though

But thanks Bare, your wisdom is always appreciated. Going to use this method for now:D

ZaKaRuNe · October 18, 2017, 1:36pm

WareBare:

the squares don’t really matter they should still be fine when you load it in game, so unless you want to place new stuff you don’t have to worry about it.
I also tried every possible variation with additional source and browse directory, it simply isn’t working for me either.

If you want to place the new stuff and as long as the additional sources loading isn’t working you can work around the issue, it’s not pretty but it gets the job done.

copy the database source to your mod (at least level art, terraintextures and creatures/enemies that’s where most of the dbrs should be in).
/mods/gdx1/database/records/ -> /mods/mymod/database/records/
after that build the mod. You can of course move everything from mods/gdx1/database/records/ to your mod but there is no need for skills or mastery dbrs and all that other stuff.

this will remove the pink squares and it will also allow you to place the new things, but they will be invisible because their mesh is inside resources, this time don’t copy the source files but the *.arc
Grim Dawn/gdx1/resources/ -> /mods/mymod/resources/

again Creatures.arc, Level Art.arc and Terrain Textures.arc is probably enough to cover everything, this only works if your source folders don’t include those, if you have a source/Creatures you are going to override your mod files.
When you build your mod for the first time after opening AM (like when the msg if you want to delete old files pops up) it will override those arcs and make them 1kb in size, so you have to copy them over again.

when you release it, you can delete those files again, the mod will work just fine without them, it’s only the modding tools that don’t seem to load them.

I did that with just one enemy dbr to test it:

EDIT: terrain textures are likely required as well, so I added them to the list

Sexy /10chara

SolemnXII · October 30, 2017, 11:07pm

Oh man, this is ruff. I was hoping they were going to confine the expansion resources to:
Grim Dawn/resources/gdx1.

This would have been less confusing and similar to:
Titan Quest Immortal Throne\resources\xpac.

I never got Crucible so was never hinted towards their new arc placement and folder structure method.

\o/

Chthon · December 8, 2017, 8:09am

So, it appear one still needs to rely on a roundabout method to use expac assets.

Tabriel · January 8, 2018, 5:59pm

Ahhhh is this is why I’ve been so damn confused about the AOM assets not being in the Editor? =/

I’ve been searching high and low for them, and as I’d added the extra directories I was perplexed as to why it wasn’t working, as I could only seem to find about 2 assets from AOM (which were likely in the files before the Xpac itself).

Wish I’d not been blind and seen this post sooner; I’ll have to try this to see if it works.

Zantai · January 9, 2018, 1:14pm

Under Database -> Import Record allows you to import gdx1 records into your mod.

Think of GDX1 as its own mod as far as file organization is concerned, but you can import/copy its records over to any other mod as the core files are in your game installation.

Tabriel · January 10, 2018, 4:06am

I’ve just checked the Database > Import Records, and it looks like it would mean having to import each record one at a time, and there’s a lot of them. I thought that adding the GDX1 folders to the Browse and Source directories should mean they’re there for all new mods by default. Or have I missed something?

As it seems doing it the way they mention in this post would be way faster; though it does mean copying over 2gb of Database and Resource files from the GDX1 folder, to each separate mod just to be able to browse everything from the expansion. Then building the database once all the files are moved takes quite a while.
(Edit: To keep the original question intact, it looks like when I build the mod) from the Sources tab, after importing the files, it asks you to delete unassociated things (like WareBare mentioned), I guess that cleans it all up? As it looks like even though I copied over 2gb of date to the mod, it’s around 300mb. So I guess that’s A-OK?)

<Sorry, very new modder here, so if I’m off base about it all, then I’d appreciate the education!>