Noggog Posted September 7, 2011 Posted September 7, 2011 (edited) I've been picking through the binary of .esp files and thought I had it figured out. Most of my findings look like this You can see the different sections described in the CREA page: http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Tes4Mod:Mod_File_Format/CREAIt's like this for most records that I know of. However, when I get to the NPC records, it's absolute gibberish Even though the same UESP site doesn't mention any major difference at all: http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Tes4Mod:Mod_File_Format/NPC Anyone know if the NPC section is just in some other encoding scheme? Or is there something else I'm missing? Edited September 7, 2011 by Leviathan1753
Hickory Posted September 7, 2011 Posted September 7, 2011 Take a look at your TES4Edit entry again. The NPC record is compressed.
Noggog Posted September 7, 2011 Author Posted September 7, 2011 Ah yes, compression hadn't crossed my mind. 8) The problem that remains is that I'm trying to make a dynamic "processor" application that detects what people have in their mods, and acts accordingly.I could uncompress it myself by hand, but that would only work for that single mod for me.. and not for the mass population. 8\ Is there somewhere I could find out the compression protocols? I'd like to "crack the code" so I can process the information as it naturally occurs in mods.I know tes4edit can do it, as it displays the NPC_s as normal. Do you know why it's only the NPC_ records that have compression?
Arthmoor Posted September 7, 2011 Posted September 7, 2011 LAND and PGRD records also have compression. I can understand why, there's tons of data in these two record types. I never did come up with a logical explanation for why NPC_ records do. Assuming they used the same compression scheme on NPC_ as they did with LAND and PGRD, it should be zlib.
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