Freelancer XML Project in Github Workflows

adoxa

Updated:

-o uses the current directory, not the source;
source may be a directory to process all suitable XML files in it;
-r to also process the subdirectories of above.

IrateRedKite

@adoxa Thanks for this! I’ve updated my workflow accordingly and will do some testing a little later today. I may keep using the PowerShell foreach loop, simply as it allows me to filter by filename, but having the -r options is really nice.

Looking into caching frc.exe and xml2utf.exe as well, so that should further save your site bandwidth and download stats

maximilianps

How can I put 227 wav file inside an UTF file?
More specifically I’m talking about trent_voice.utf, I’ve extracted and edited all the wav file but I can’t find a suitable operation to reinsert the wav file inside the UTF if not one by one by hand with UTFEditor

IrateRedKite

@maximilianps Hiya, welcome to the Starport! Your best bet if you’re doing this sort of thing in bulk, is the Freelancer XML Project, which provides an easy-to-use GUI for conversion in both directions (XML -> UTF and back).

IrateRedKite

@adoxa This might be a bit of an ask, but is is possible to prevent frc and xml2utf from writing metadata into the files they generate? I was hoping to compare the sha256 hash of zipped releases as a measure to prevent accidental releases if the workflow is triggered, but each run of the two programs generates files with completely different hashes as I think in both instances metadata is written to the compiled files!

Edit: I am also caching both the applications now, so you should see way fewer hits on these from Github as the workflow runs.

adoxa

In my (admittedly limited) test frc generated the same file. The test was simply compile a file, wait a bit (I thought it might be the timestamp in the PE header), compile again and compare; I also touched the source file, but that was still the same.

You should generate the XML files with the Timestamps (-t) option, otherwise the current time is used when creating the UTF.

IrateRedKite

@adoxa An update: It was indeed the timestamps! Thankyou for your help You’ll be pleased to know I am also caching and no longer using the dlt links.

An aside: is the source for xml2utf available?

adoxa

Here’s the source. No makefile or solution, I must have just built it straight from the command line: cl /nologo /W3 /O2 /MD /EHsc *.cpp /Fexml2utf.exe. I should integrate it with XMLUTF (via defines), but heaven knows when.

IrateRedKite

@adoxa Thanks! I don’t suppose you have this set up running in the other direction too? (UTF -> XML) We’ve got a local script that converts things in the other direction for upload, but I’ve found for quite a few of the folks working on the mod, UTFXML simply won’t run properly when invoked via a script, and I think it’s a similar set of dependency issues.

adoxa

I’ll add it to the list…