Was there ever an existing Chinese Junk model?

corsair91 · Sailing Master Posts: 8266 **208036 Gold** -

ref: error message that says "Read beyond end of file."

What game FPK file is this ?

May be Pak tool and game FPK compatibility issue,
Try a different tool if available
Also ensure you use a scratch folder with full rights,
Last resort, Try run as administrator

For SM pirates
Fpk Unpacker & PakBuild are the unpacking tools

Fpk Unpacker & Civ4 PakBuild
http://www.hookedonpirates.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7904

Fpk Unpacker typically works better for SM Pirates
as there are User created mod FPKs that PakBuild will fail to unpack
such as for example Rupertlittlebear's Parrot mod
& MCSmarties's - Brethren of the Coast Mod
(incorrectly initially recalled this as the original East Indies Mod)

For Civ4
Fpk Unpacker ?, PakBuild & Dragon Unpacker
(not sure how Fpk Unpacker will behave with Civ4 Fpks
and PakBuild may be CIV preferred)

PakBuild is the official Fraxis unpack tool
(see above link)

Dragon Unpacker
(Open Source)
https://www.elberethzone.net/en/dragon-unpacker.html
https://sourceforge.net/projects/dragonunpacker/
https://www.elberethzone.net/en/dragon-unpacker.html#download

Supported Games
https://www.elberethzone.net/en/dragon-unpacker-supported-games.html

Includes

Game Name
Extension
Plugin Version
Plugin in DUP5
Included Support Level

Civilization 4 .FPK drv_default 2.0.0 5.2.0 Full
Civilization V .FPK drv_default 2.1.0 5.6.0 Full

SM Pirates not listed
(FPK is supposed to be the same archive format as used for CIV4
(contents layout & version numbers may differ)
but I could never get this to work for SM pirates previously
and is not listed as supported)

JohntheFoot · Powder Monkey Posts: 8 **233 Gold** -

corsair91 · Sailing Master Posts: 8266 **208036 Gold** -

REF: So the FPKs of Civ IV and Pirates aren't necessarily compatible?

My guess

is that the official Fraxis FPKs & PakBuild
probably are compatible.

Fpk Unpacker can also unpack Fraxis official SM pirates FPKs

The official Fraxis CIV4 PakBuild tool
is the one apparently most used for CIV4
(usually the tool listed to be used in
various Civ Fan forum threads)

Any User created SM pirates mod FPKs
using a 3rd part tool such as say Fpk Unpacker
may need to be unpacked with the same creation tool

(It helps if mods state what Tool was used
in the mod description or readme file.
otherwise assume Fpk Unpacker, as typically has best
results for SM pirates)

FPK archive format is very much a Civ 4 file format.
Because Fraxis had this tech to hand, they also used it
for SM pirates.

(I would not be at all surprised if there are file header differences
or some such between the games at a guess.
Never bothered using a Hex Editor to find out

So I tend to be wary of any stated claims that FPKs are
the same between SM Pirates & Civ 4 games,
unless proven by testing first)

themodelcitizen · Gunner Posts: 865 **14671 Gold** -

I think it was fkpunpacker that I used to unpack the .exe. There's a link here: http://www.hookedonpirates.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=113862&sid=3258ac5c35d98e0ddfe91766099f5df0#113862

JohntheFoot · Powder Monkey Posts: 8 **233 Gold** -

I used DragonUnpacker on the .fpk... and it worked! I was able to extract the junk files from Realism Invictus for Civ IV. I've attached links here. This is a skin and a .dds, which I'm not sure is the actual 3D model given the title, but these two files were all that was in a folder titled "junk." I have not tried dropping the files into Pirates yet. Am I on the right track here?

caravel.nif: https://www.mediafire.com/file/30pfk1ly7m8qdja/caravel.nif/file

asian_light_02_diffuse.dds: https://www.mediafire.com/file/n7vxl7tx8bttqrt/asian_light_02_diffuse.dds/file

JohntheFoot · Powder Monkey Posts: 8 **233 Gold** -

themodelcitizen · Gunner Posts: 865 **14671 Gold** -

Wow nice work. I think it's just a .nif? I'm looking now but can't find the file I was using for parksbanyon's proa to replace the war canoe/pinnace model, I think it's tartane.nif or something like that. Then there's a tartane.dds but I think that's just for the icon that shows up when you're looking at your fleet.

To be even more fulsome, you can replace the Pirate-o-Pedia dds and also go into the text file to rewrite the entry for the ship, as we did for the East Indies. But anyway great stuff, keep us posted if you make any progress

corsair91 · Sailing Master Posts: 8266 **208036 Gold** -

Parksbanyon - Proa Z30.nif

Quote:

Also the proa.nif, rename tartane.nif and dump in ur custom
if I remember the textures are the same one used by the tartane.

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Looking at the caravel.nif as a Text File

caravel.nif
Gamebryo File Format, Version 20.0.0.4

should instead be for SM Pirates
Gamebryo File Format, Version 10.1.0.0

caravel.nif

includes this

Mass = 0.000000
Ellasticity = 0.300000
Friction = 0.300000
Unyielding = 0
Phantom = 0
Simulation_Geometry = 2
Proxy_Geometry = <None>
Use_Display_Proxy = 0
Disable_Collisions = 0
Inactive = 0
Display_Proxy = <None>

which is not present in a SM pirates NIF

May possibly need to run it through say Nifskope or
Blender & Blender Nif Scripts

Other Users may be better able to advise on this

https://niftools.sourceforge.net/wiki/Blender

NifSkope
http://niftools.sourceforge.net/wiki/NifSkope

A graphical program that allows you to open NIF files, view their contents, edit them, and write them back out again. You can use it to quickly make changes to specific properties of a NIF file such as changing the texture, adding translucency, and more.
A 3D view of the contents of the NIF file allows you to preview your changes instantly. You can even create texture templates, and import & export OBJ files.

https://github.com/niftools/nifskope/releases