nycz Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 I'm working on a tool to copy face/body data from one save to another (this one) but it's a pain trying to decipher the format manually. Is there any documentation for the .fos save files (or Skyrim's .ess files for that matter) besides UESP? Or any place I can help out and add what I've found out about the format? More specifically, it's the player's ACHR record I'm trying to parse since for some reason the body's skin color is cached there together with some more face related data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flexcreator Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 The format is pretty similar to Skyrim. These are the only changes in header: Signature:FO4_SAVEGAME // Everything is the same as with Skyrim, but there are changes in Screenshot// Screenshot is using 4 bytes per pixel instead of 3 bytes as it was in Skyrim // After the screenshot goes new string:VersionInformationString <- Since Fallout 4 I have no experience in using ACHR records, but the information above should help you to start. but it's a pain trying to decipher the format manually. All the available information about the Skyrim savegame format is deciphered manually.No pain - no gain. PSJust followed the link, I assume you already passed the header, sorry ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nycz Posted December 1, 2015 Author Share Posted December 1, 2015 Thanks for the reply. There seems to be some other minor differences between the formats (an extra wstring in the header in fos files for example) but yeah, luckily they're mostly similar. The bad news is that ACHR records in ess files have practically no documentation at all so I'm going at it completely blind. Still, I'm making progress, albeit slow progress. Any clue as to where I could post my findings though? I really don't want anyone to have to go through all this again if possible. The Fallout Mods wiki has a page on FO3's save format but they don't have anything on FO4 yet and it doesn't look extremely active (at least not wrt newer games). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flexcreator Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 I think http://fallout.wikia.com/ is the right place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ixpv Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Did you keep working on this? The Skyrim file format is documented in part on the uesp wiki: http://uesp.net/wiki/Tes5Mod:Save_File_Format Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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