Extracting & injecting BBS
Automated method
TODO: Upload generic versions of Broscar's DBFZ scripts
Manual method
Manually extracting and injecting scripts is preferred if other assets need to be packaged.
Bulk extracting all BBS from the game
Open the game's pak in FModel, and open the package search window (Ctrl + Shift + F). Type in BBS_.
Select all items in that window (Ctrl + A), right click, and select 'Export Raw Data (.uasset)'.
The files will appear in the 'Output' directory, but with their original folder structure intact, which can be time consuming to work with. To consolidize all of these BBS files, you can slap any of these scripts into your FModel directory. When you run it, it'll copy all BBS files into a single folder named 'bbs'.
TODO: Slap scripts into a github and just offer download links. Also, create a Windows batch version.
#!/bin/bash
mkdir -p "./bbs/"
for f in `find "Output" -type f -name "BBS_*"`
do cp -f "${f}" "./bbs/"
done
Extract a script from the .uasset/.uexp
Using Pangaea's ggst-bbs-unpacker, scripts (and other ArcSys binaries) can be extracted. After exporting the .uasset from FModel, open the .uasset and .uexp files using ggst-bbs-unpacker. Then, click Extract and save it in a location of your choosing.
Parse the script
Using Pangaea's BBScript tool by itself, you will need to use the command line. If you have never used the command line before, find a tutorial on it first.
In the command line, run ```cmd
bbscript parse
where <config> is the matching configuration filename in static_db, <binary> is the extracted script, and <text> is the file to parse to.
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If the file to parse to already exists, an error will be thrown to prevent accidental overwriting. If you do wish to overwrite the given file, put `-o` after the command.
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### Rebuild the script
The BBScript tool can also rebuild scripts from text back into binary form.
In the command line, run ```cmd
bbscript rebuild <config> <text> <binary>
where
Inject the script back into the .uasset/.uexp
ggst-bbs-unpacker can also inject scripts and other binaries back into the .uasset/.uexp. Open the original .uasset and .uexp. Then, select the file you wish to inject. Finally, click Inject.