Available on GitHub at: https://github.com/eoserv/pubcompiler-php
Here's a tool I made to expand pub files out to a bunch of JSON files, and allow editing via a text editor. Why? So I can track changes to pub files in version control.
The project consists of two front-end scripts: autogen.php and buildpub.php, as well as 4 format specifications for each type of pub file. You can use the format files as a reference for editing the JSON data files.
It's written in PHP so you'll need a PHP CLI installation to run the scripts.
Example JSON file:
elder_robes_f.json:
{
"id": 208,
"weight": 3,
"size": "2x3",
"name": "Elder Robes",
"graphic": 216,
"type": "Armor",
"subtype": "None",
"special": "Lore",
"hp": 100,
"tp": 100,
"mindam": 10,
"maxdam": 10,
"accuracy": 10,
"evade": 10,
"armor": 10,
"spec1": 26,
"unknown1": 100
}Generating JSON files: autogen.php
$ php ./autogen.php [EIF|ENF|ESF|ECF] path/to/dat001.eif ./items/
This will read through a pub file and dump out each entry to a separate JSON file. You should only ever need to do this once, and repeating the process will overwrite any edited JSON files without warning. Any 0 values are excluded from the output.
You can optionally specify the pub file type you want before the pub filename, if you're not using the matching file extension.
Example output:
$ php ./autogen.php dat001.eif items/
Dumping: items/gold.json
Dumping: items/small_health_potion.json
Dumping: items/small_mana_potion.json
...
Building pub files: buildpub.php
$ php ./buildpub.php [EIF|ENF|ESF|ECF] dat001.eif items/
This gathers all the JSON files in the given directory and builds them back in to a pub file. A unique ID is automatically calculated using the same CRC32 algorithm as EOMap.
You can optionally specify the pub file type you want before the pub filename, if you're not using the matching file extension.
Example output:
$ php ./buildpub.php dat001.eif items/
Wrote 496+1 entries to dat001.eif (34.0 kB). RID=7707a5b1
Warning
This script doesn't do much error checking yet, and won't complain if it's given unknown key values or duplicate ID numbers. Also don't forget to put a slash at the end of the directory names, or it will dump all the files in the current directory!
Tool: Pub file compiler
