8.1 Where to Turn in Restored Artifacts Vendor?

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krzys_h's guide to the information.win

Hello! I'm krzys_h, your new moderator happening some r/underminers and r/undermodders! You may know me as the author of UndertaleModTool, and the considerate person who spent the last week of his living answering entirely the repetitive questions about unpacking the data.win file... but to be honest, it gets tiring later on a while. So I wrote this guide to help you!

Delight read it before asking yet another "how to draw out sprites/sounds/whatever other from the information.advance file cabinet". I tried to not make it so dense that IT makes your head spin... well, maybe IT clothed a half-size chip like that (and also, if you didn't notice yet, the picture at the top is the unused texture for the Ralsei's manual :P)

Nowadays, there are a few tools that can be accustomed extract the data.win file. Each of them has its pros and cons, thus I tried and true to list all tools I know of to supporte you choose the best unmatchable for whatever you are trying to fare. Most of these should also work on other GameMaker: Studio based games (contempt the names)!

UndertaleModTool

Main project site: https://github.com/krzys-h/UndertaleModTool

Download link: https://github.com/krzys-h/UndertaleModTool/releases

+ Probably the easiest one to employment if you are new to this, as it's the only tool I know of that has a prudish GUI

+ Full support for Undertale (both pre- and post- GMS2 port, i.e. the Nintendo Flip-flop update) and Deltarune(well, maybe except a few editors that are static non updated)

+ Can both pull up and save the modified file

+ Lets you shift just about every single value in the register

+ Contains a high-altitude decompiler which makes the halt code quite an readable

+ Contains a scripting interface and builtin scripts for enabling debug mode etc.

- It's really terrible for anything related to batch processing. If you want to make a good sprite or sensible wasteyard, that's not a good tool to use for this.

- It's Windows-only (yea I know, bad for this)

- Doesn't fully support Undertale v1.00 (but who wants to open such an erstwhile variant anyhow)

- Often doesn't equal files improperly adapted by other tools (as a design choice - it reconstructs the livelong Indian file from in-memory board data structures, soh IT needs to take in a full understanding of what is going on to prevent data red ink)

Opening the file in UndertaleModTool doesn't need too much explanation, very. Rightful click File -> Open and select the file you deficiency to edit. From there, you'll probably lack to depart browse from some core object categories (rooms, gritty objects, sprites, sounds, code) and keep an eye on to new objects from there by simply double-clicking on them.

You may as wel lack to check dead the scripts for enabling the debug mode etc. They are accessible under the "Scripts" bill of fare at the exceed. You testament probably want to deal the playscript list for reference. A couple of additional drug user-made scripts are also available along r/underminers and r/undermodders, look around for them!

UndertaleModTool

Altar.NET

Main project land site: https://gitlab.com/PoroCYon/Communion table.Earning

Download link (nightly): https://gitlab.com/PoroCYon/Altar.Meshwork/-/jobs/artifacts/master/download?problem=release

Download link (prescribed release, REALLY OLD): https://gitlab.com/PoroCYon/Altar.NET/tags

+ One of the oldest tools for working with the data.gain ground file

+ Recently updated to living unpacking some the in style GMS2 versions of Undertale and Deltarune

+ Great for batch extraction

+ In the latest adaptation (e4c1c7c) can split sprites into separate files

+ Thwartwise-platform

- Repacking the extracted files back into a data.advance is technically implemented, but broken after the recent changes to support GMS2 and Deltarune

- Command-line interface

- The decompiled code is... hard to read at the best, and even wrong sometimes

In the recent version (e4c1c7c) the decompile-data scripts were fixed, so you should be able to just drag and drop the data.win onto them (unless you want to unsexed the sprites, see below). The old manual instruction follows because it's still useful if you want to customize the extraction in whatsoever way.

To use Communion table.Profit, you bequeath need a basic understanding of how mastery line works. Start cmd.exe (or any other favorite terminal program) and get ahead to the directory where you downloaded Lord's table. The command you demand to run is:

For Undertale:

          altar.exe exportation --whatever --file "C:\Program Files (x86)\UNDERTALE\data.win" --out "C:\path_to_some_output_dir"                  

For Deltarune (which makes use of the additional set-apart audiogroup1.digital audiotape register):

          altar.exe export --whatsoever --file "C:\Course of study Files (x86)\SURVEY_PROGRAM\data.win" --out "C:\path_to_some_output_dir" --detachedagrp                  

If you want to additionally cut the red sprites into reprint files, just add the --dumpspritepng choice

Altar.NET

UndertaleTools (too known atomic number 3 WinExtract/TXTRCut)

Main project site: https://github.com/fjay69/UndertaleTools

Download relate: https://github.com/fjay69/UndertaleTools/releases

+ Used to be commonly used while Altar.NET wasn't well-kept to hold the latest versions of Undertale

+ Contains a tool to tear the fay sheets into individual sprite files

? Seems to support repacking... maybe, never tried that myself

- Doesn't seem to be very maintained anymore, and was not updated to reenforcement Deltarune (but anything except for sounds may still work)

- And I guess it's non going to be? :P

I don't rattling sleep with much about this tool. The syntax is supposed to be:

          WinExtract [path to the information.win file] [path of where to pull up the files] TXTRCut [path to extracted file]                  

If you have some more experience with it, let Pine Tree State know and I'll update the guidebook

GMdsam

Main jut site: https://github.com/WarlockD/GMdsam

Download link: not available as a downloadable build?

+ Generates even better decompiled code than UndertaleModTool (roughly I heard)

- Doesn't support anything above Undertale v1.00 thus it's quite useless like a sho unless somebody updates it

QuickBMS

- It's really Old and nobody uses that

- Seriously, it's probably not going to work

- I put on this hither alone because the newcomers keep mentioning it

And I guess that's all of them, at least for now. If you have any more questions or suggestions, please leave them in the comments and I'll try to update the guide consequently.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I edit sprites?

Graze through the "Embedded textures" in UndertaleModTool to uncovering the spritesheet you want to edit, exportation it, change and and then reimport. If you happen to know the name of the sprite (or have some luck dead reckoning) you can rule it in "Sprites" to locate the spritesheet information technology's in more easily so stick to through away double-clicking until you reach the texture page.

How do I add characters to fonts?

I've never actually done this myself soh I father't eff a lot but you should find some gross guidance here: https://github.com/krzys-h/UndertaleModTool/issues/8 (note that the TTFFonts thing doesn't work for Deltarune currently so you have to operate the manual route). Fundamentally, you have to delete the baptistery like a sprite and past input the character positions manually, fashioning sure they are listed in ascending order (there is a push to sort them mechanically in newer versions)

If anybody is willing to write a guide for this, let me have it away and I'll link it both here and in UndertaleModTool

I downloaded UndertaleModTool but I put on't bon how to yawning the .sln/.cs files

I ready-made this handy meme to assistance you:

this should help (don't tell me it's terrible)

How bottom I view the scripts without installing any tools

I guess that's not a oft asked interrogate simply I have no idea where else to put this and IT's effective: https://miniskirt.xkeeper.net/private/deltarune/ (by /u/Xkeeper)

And more FAQs will probably live added presently...

Ralsei says goodbye

Changelog:

2018-11-09: Initial version of the guide

2018-11-11: Altar.NET got support for splitting sprites and the decompile-information scripts were fixed, channelize updated to reflect that

2018-11-16: Added answers to some FAQs

8.1 Where to Turn in Restored Artifacts Vendor?

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Underminers/comments/9vpxau/extracting_and_modifying_the_datawin_file_for/

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