Merge READMEs into the root README
Bring the wpak documentation into the root README and remove the duplicate copy under mbEditorPro2.0. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ Team Magicbane presents to the community technology allowing MagicBox administra
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to fully modify their game using nothing more than notepad.exe. <br>
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- Tool directly converts Shadowbane .cache file data to and from a high fidelity pure JSON representation.
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- Shadowbane .wpak archives are decrypted to and from their plain text config files.
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- Media such as textures and sound are converted in-situ.
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- Enumerations are used throughout hiding from the user ugly signed ulong values.
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- Written in Python and open-source allowing modification and extension with ease.
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@@ -49,6 +50,20 @@ mbEditorPro.py pack all
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New binary cache file(s) will be built from the JSON and output into the current directory. <br>
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Pack only reads from the un-numbered folders (e.g. COBJECTS). If a cache file already exists, a numbered copy is written instead (e.g. CObjects.cache.1). <br>
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### wpak files
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```
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mbEditorPro.py unpack wpak
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mbEditorPro.py unpack wpak Config
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mbEditorPro.py pack wpak
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mbEditorPro.py pack wpak Config
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```
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A .wpak is a zip archive whose entries are each Blowfish encrypted (.tga icons are stored unencrypted).
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Unpack decrypts each pak into **ARCANE_DUMP/<name>** (e.g. ARCANE_DUMP/Config), one file per entry.
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Pack encrypts each folder back into <name>.wpak. Name a single pak to work on just that one.
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The same numbering rules as the caches apply. <br>
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### Limitations
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Hirelings, ZoneEvents and Mobile Inventory are not parsed or written as there were no <br>
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@@ -65,10 +80,9 @@ The tool generating pure JSON has the following benefits:
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### Future
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mbEditorPro will be the cornerstone of Magicbane's data project. The Team's goals are threefold:
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mbEditorPro will be the cornerstone of Magicbane's data project. The Team's goals are twofold:
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- Ship MagicBox 1.5 with both Aerynth and Vorringia mapsets.
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- Integrate Magicbane's wpak extractor technology into the tool.
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- Use data for a detailed audit of Magicbane's database.<br>
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### More Information
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