Not all the packages have all the types mapped. Creating a model is straight forward.
- Dump your copy of Episode Duscae or Platinum Demo from your Playstation 4 (go here and press F12)
- From the dump, extract every EARC content with Noesis.
- Convert all the EXML files to XML using xmbtool.
- Put the XML file into FFXV.Services.Tests binary folder.
- Add the test and run it.
- When you receive an exception like 'Type SQEX.Ebony.Framework.Sequence.Tray.SequenceTray not found', just create the model in the respective project and write the implementation looking the XML structure. The PackageService will automatically recognize it.
- Run the test and be 100% sure that it passes.
- Create a pull request :)
The following tools are missing:
- Convert between XML and XMB2 (PS4 and PC version of the final game).
- A save editor (I have a prototype that I will upload later).
- BTEX converter (there is the need to convert between PS4 and PC textures).
- Package editor (to create quests, debug menu, enemies, dungeons, expaing maps).
The main boss of the game. Every EXML/XMB/XMB2 can be converted to an XML, which the Luminous Engine reads that as 'package'.
A package is a descriptor that drives almost all the aspects of the game. On FFXV.Services there is a PackageService which de-serialize an XML and returns a Package object.
A package contains a list of objects, where every object is part of a group of nodes connected to another object (imagine that as a tree).
Every object has a type, which is used by PackageService by just creating its model into the projects Black, SQEX.Ebony or SQEX.Luminous.
Since the complexity of the PackageService deserializer, there are some tests to validate the way which it behaves.
XMB is used by Final Fantasy XV Episode Duscae and Platinum Demo and can be modified using xmbtool.
The full documentation is available here.
XMB2 is used by the final version of Final Fantasy XV and the Judgment Demo. It has not been reversed yet.
A file archive format that it is responsable to link other dependent EARC files. Not the best implementation here, but it works. I recommend to use FFXV Scout or Noesis.
PC/PS4 texture format. Not completed at all. Everything is currently commented.
All the command-line tools requires .NET Core runtime installed and runs on Windows, Linux and macOS.
All the graphical tools requires .NET Framework runtime and runs on Windows only.
Converts between XMB and XML.
Parameters
-i|--input
Input file or directory.
-o|--output
Output file or directory.
-x|--export
If the tool should convert from XMB to XML. If not specified, it will convert from XML to XMB.
-d|--directory
The input and output will be considered as directories instead of files.
-r|--recursive
Recursively process all the files from the input directory to the output directory.
Examples
Convert a XMB file to XML:
dotnet xmbtool -i layout_title_epd.exml -o layout_title_epd.xml -x
Convert a XML back to XMB:
dotnet xmbtool -i layout_title_epd.exml -o layout_title_epd.xml
Convert all the exml files in the game folder to XML
dotnet xmbtool -i ./ffxv-epduscae ./ffxv-epduscae-out -x -d -r
This is a diagnostic tool for the reversed package structures.
It scan recursively every XMB of its running folder and create a log of all the implemented and missing structures.
Read EXML/XML files and show their struture node on a GUI application.
The tool uses SQEX.Ebony and Black structures to parse and show XML information.