[REL] OpenRW

[reditec 280]

Project OpenRW is a multi-purpose editor and archive manager for the "older" RenderWare - Engine based games.

Currently OpenRW's major features are:

- Browse the games' files | by reditec

- Automatic updater | by reditec

Grand Theft Auto III (PC and PS2)
- Read IMG archive files | by reditec

- Extract IMG archives | by reditec

Grand Theft Auto Vice City (PC and PS2)
- Read IMG archive files | by reditec

- Extract IMG archives | by reditec

Grand Theft Auto San Andreas (PC)
- Read IMG archive files | by Tank / Aviator / not implemented yet

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Source

There is no stable version available yet.

OpenRW is not related in any way to OpenIV, openFormats, .black, the OpenIV team or Rockstar Games.

Edited December 25, 2015 by reditec

[The_GTA 569]

Ambitious project. I believe you are going to need a lot of help from the community with this one

 

I like this idea.

[lulzmodder 10]

Well, good luck. Will this tool support Bully?

Edited July 23, 2015 by lulzmodder

[Edgrd 572]

nice idea , i love it ! hope you can finish it.

 

will you add Bully support ?

[reditec 280]

nice idea , i love it ! hope you can finish it.

 

will you add Bully support ?

 

If Bully is RW based and is documentated somehow, I'll ofcourse add Bully Support. I'll also add support for GTA: VCS, GTA: LCS and the mobile games of GTA. :-)

Maybe we can port those console games over to PC in that way

[The Hero 7,441]

I still don't know what OpenRW is actually supposed to do. Is it more than an IMG tool?

Edited July 23, 2015 by The Hero

[reditec 280]

Yes it will be able to open all type of files (also those located in the IMG Archiv es)

[The Hero 7,441]

So you can read and write all DFFs, TXDs, COLs, IFPs, ANMs and whatever there is?

[reditec 280]

I try to implement that, yes

[Jinx. 8,492]

Bully uses RW. Manhunt 1/2 use it too, AFAIR. GTA LCS/VCS use a different engine. All mobile GTA games (except CTW) use EW aswell. Maybe you can add support for Manhunt 1/2 too

 

Nice project, looking towards it

[Sneed 13,294]

Bully only on PS2 uses RW on PC, wii and x360 it uses something different

[lulzmodder 10]

Bully: Scholarship Edition, uses Gamebryo rather than RenderWare.

[Blackbird88 1,677]

Bully only on PS2 uses RW on PC, wii and x360 it uses something different

 

And Manhunt 2 uses Rockstar Leeds Engine so it uses LCS/VCS file formats such as .mdl for models.

Edited July 23, 2015 by Blackbird88

[reditec 280]

It depends on how well Leeds is docentated.

Maybe I'll support it too.

[direstraits 27]

Good luck, i hope it doesn't die.

[lpgunit 530]

Bully: Scholarship Edition, uses Gamebryo rather than RenderWare.

It does share some internals with the Renderware-based GTA games though, like with the v1 IMG archive format for example.

[reditec 280]

I improved the "Browse the games' files" feature a lot today. I'll publish the source code probably in less than a week

[Jinx. 8,492]

 

Bully only on PS2 uses RW on PC, wii and x360 it uses something different

And Manhunt 2 uses Rockstar Leeds Engine so it uses LCS/VCS file formats such as .mdl for models.

I heard that the PS2 one uses .dffs (I readed this on a thread about a Manhunt 2 tool).

[zmudziak32 401]

This tool will be likely same as IMG Factory made by X-Seti. Why not combine these two into 1 one stable tool?

[reditec 280]

This tool will be likely same as IMG Factory made by X-Seti. Why not combine these two into 1 one stable tool?

It will NOT be the same. I'm in contact with the IMG factory developers. They are focussing on IMG files, but my project will support every file format for all RenderWare games :-)

[The Hero 7,441]

So please show something, this is the showroom. Any screenshots maybe?

[reditec 280]

So please show something, this is the showroom. Any screenshots maybe?

This is the current UI. Bus as you can see it's not ready yet and needs some re-work. But you'll probably like the result. :-)

Edited July 27, 2015 by reditec

[Jinx. 8,492]

It seems like a parody of OpenIV, even if it's not related to it. Hope you will make it's design distinct from it, because for now it seems like OpenIV for RW.

[reditec 280]

It seems like a parody of OpenIV, even if it's not related to it. Hope you will make it's design distinct from it, because for now it seems like OpenIV for RW.

It actually will be like "an" OpenIV for RW. But the design is terrible at the moment and I'm working hard on improving it.

[DK22Pac 2,568]

I'd recommend you to start with V tools.

It is more un-researched, so any tool will give you more popularity/likes/etc. there.

If you want to create something valuable for III era games, you must know nearly everything about these games.

[reditec 280]

I'd recommend you to start with V tools.

It is more un-researched, so any tool will give you more popularity/likes/etc. there.

If you want to create something valuable for III era games, you must know nearly everything about these games.

Well, I'm not able to research encrypted things, I'll let others do this. If it was that easy, we wouldn't have to wait for other modders. I'm not programming for likes and popularity, I just do it as my hobby and I'm in touch with many well-known modders (like Alexander Blade, Jedijosh, ...)

Well actually I know ALOT of things about RenderWare games. The only help I'll need is with displaying models and this kind of stuff.

Just wait until I release the source code and the first stable version - Then you can rate my tool :-).

[reditec 280]

Well now it's a bit more than a week.

Well, I had some new ideas and improved the UI.

 

Currently I'm working on 2 things:

- Display folders and files nice (nearly finished)

- A selector of your game (Vice City or 3, currently) where you enter the games' path (not finished / VERY EASY)

- An automatic updater (not finished / VERY EASY)

 

One guy from the forums here is also helping me with learning C++ and is working on some C++ libraries to work with RenderWare files, maybe we'll include those next to the C# libraries and ofcourse also include the source. :-)

 

 

I don't want to say it'll take 3 days until I can publish the source and the binaries of OpenRW 0.0.1, because I'm not sure about it and am more like "Better safe than sorry" ;-)

 

But atleast here is a new screenshot of the current UI, I am sure, you'll prefer it to the older ones

 

 

Have a nice day, guys!

 

Edit: As English is not my native language, I could probably need some help with the English language strings by someone else. :-)

If English is your Native language and you want to support my project, feel free to add me on skype: spielereditec

Edited August 6, 2015 by reditec

[Jinx. 8,492]

I hope there will be an offline installer. It would be very lovely.

[reditec 280]

I hope there will be an offline installer. It would be very lovely.

Dude, you just made my day

This is OpenSource

Ofcourse there will be an OfflineInstaller!?

But the program will come with an updater and you'll need an internet-connection for that :-)

(But you can also download the latest build from GitHub) ;-)

[Jinx. 8,492]

That sounds great