boozehoundblue Posted April 13, 2018 Posted April 13, 2018 FO4Dump I've been trying to dump an NPC_ group while excluding things like DNAM,OBND,DATA,Head Parts, etc; but I can't seem to get the child record exclusion list (-xcg:list) to work. For example: fo4dump.exe -dg:NPC_ -xcg:DNAM,OBND,DATA fallout4.esm >mydump.txt I can correctly dump the one group but all that data is still there. Am I making a trivial mistake or misunderstanding record child groups? Or do the options not work in this conjunction?
hlp Posted April 14, 2018 Posted April 14, 2018 I am pretty sure they did work when I was working on them the last time around but that was a long time ago and I haven't tried since.Could you create a bug report on GitHub ? Hopefully I'll find some time to check this.https://github.com/TES5Edit/TES5Edit/issues
zilav Posted April 14, 2018 Posted April 14, 2018 You can exlude entire records only when dumping a group providing their signatures, there is no per field exclusions in xDump.
boozehoundblue Posted April 14, 2018 Author Posted April 14, 2018 (edited) Thanks for the replies. I am pretty sure they did work when I was working on them the last time around but that was a long time ago and I haven't tried since.Could you create a bug report on GitHub ? Hopefully I'll find some time to check this.https://github.com/TES5Edit/TES5Edit/issuesI was leery about raising an issue on github if I was indeed making a simple mistake/misunderstanding. zilav asserts I am. You can exlude entire records only when dumping a group providing their signatures, there is no per field exclusions in xDump.Thanks for clearing that up. I guess -xcg:list doesn't serve a purpose if I'm interested in dumping specific groups, as each record has the same signature. I can just use -dg:list and -xr:TES4 (to at least remove the main file header, minus 2 lines of artifact). I was also wondering about the export option mentioned in the help screen (below). Couldn't figure out the proper syntax in my above command to export to Wiki Table format:Syntax: FO4Dump [options] inputfile or FO4Export [options] format Ultimately, I'm trying to cull and restructure the output to template a spreadsheet (for Articy:Draft) or xmls, json, whatever. Where might I look around in the source code to begin to understand how the esp/esm is read and how the dump structure is written? Is there any technical documentation about the file structure? For example, Bioware had a pretty comprehensive set of pdfs for NWN that I could follow to program reading/writing dialogues to json. Edited April 14, 2018 by boozehoundblue
zilav Posted April 15, 2018 Posted April 15, 2018 "xcg" is used to skip dumping records in child groups belonging to provided records, for example you want to dump all CELL records and set param -dg:CELL but this will also dump all records located in cells, so you can exclude dumping child groups of cells -xcg:CELL and only CELL records themselves will be dumped. Dumping in wiki format won't help you to understand how records work, it will export fields and their binary data type. The only source of mod file format I know of is http://en.uesp.net/wiki/Tes5Mod:Mod_File_FormatIt is for Skyrim, but apart from the meaning of specific fields in records, almost nothing has changed in FO4. If you have programming background, checking the source of various tools can also help https://wrinklyninja.github.io/buddah/
boozehoundblue Posted May 4, 2018 Author Posted May 4, 2018 Thanks for the advice. I've spent the last month fumbling around in Python and the source code, then decided an xEdit Script would probably be most useful. However, I've hit a couple of errors that I can't figure my way around, trying to create a switch case from (integer representations of) record signatures. If you have a chance, could you have a look? https://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/6611661-tes5edit-scripting-compiling-woes-enumeration-type-et-al/
Soulbringer1 Posted April 10, 2019 Posted April 10, 2019 If you guys are still monitoring this thread. I just noticed the files F)4Dump.exe, and FO4Dump64.exe in my game folder. What the heck are they??
hlp Posted April 10, 2019 Posted April 10, 2019 Those are tools to extract information from plugin into text form. Primary use is for decoding new game info when it is published or updated.
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