This is a simple tool to extract files from the Starcraft Remastered and Starcraft 2 game files on MacOS.
- based on the CascLib library and is a simple command line tool.
- written such that criteria for selecting the files are flexible so you can make changes based on your use case.
- I simply filtered for audio file formats.
It's actually my first ever cpp program! I made this becasue I wanted clean voice tracks for both English and German so that I can possibly make a "1h of terran base ambience with occasional xxxx notification" type of video. well, that still hasn't gone well since this program has problems. I will write about it below.
To clone the repository along with its submodule CascLib, use the following command:
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/yxzwayne/starcraft-file-extractor-macos.gitor if you already cloned, use
git submodule update --init --recursiveBecause this uses CascLib as submodule, we build it first (if you have already cloned it):
cd into the submodule:
cd src/CascLibbuild it:
cmake -L CMakeLists.txt
makego back to the project root:
# this is just one way to do it
cd ../../..then, proceed with building our program:
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
makeOnce you compile, run the binary. For example:
./extract_audioSo far, the program asks you for
- the path to your game data file (which should be fairly straightforward to find on macos if you peep your Applications folder)
- the output path
Notably, the program will create the output directory if it doesn't exist yet (although I don't remember if I wrote it to be recursive... can I even do that anyway??)
It will then create a log at your home directory; oops bug but it should be a simple path fix so you can do it yourself :3
TBD (but will be maximally open anyway)