Freelancer XML Project in Github Workflows
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Quick update: Attempting to set the registry key required by the project results in similar behaviour:
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IrateRedKite Administrators Historic Supporter Wiki Contributorreplied to adoxa on global:last_edited_by,
@adoxa I think this worked! (The workflow didn’t hang and the process concluded) Will set up outputs to be sure and then post here with results. Many thanks!
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@adoxa It works! The xml2utf executable creates valid UTF files within the workflow. My build time for a few thousand XML files is about 5 minutes, which is perfect. I’ll post my full workflow in a few hours when I have it polished and running correctly.
An aside: will you be publishing this one on your site along with the source as well? Will adjust the link in my workflow to reflect that if so.
Update: The workflow can be found here, if anyone would like to adapt it to suit their own purposes: https://github.com/better-modernized-combat/bmod-client/blob/main/.github/workflows/release.yml
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Could you download
frc.zipdirectly, rather than going throughdlt? Don’t want to count that in my download stats (not that I’ve looked at them for a couple of years…).The recurse code is still present, so I could make it available. (It’s partially implemented now, try "All " (that’s A-l-l-space) as the name, but I won’t keep that, it’s a remnant of the GUI.)
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IrateRedKite Administrators Historic Supporter Wiki Contributorreplied to adoxa on global:last_edited_by,
@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
-roptions is really nice.Looking into caching
frc.exeandxml2utf.exeas well, so that should further save your site bandwidth and download stats
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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
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IrateRedKite Administrators Historic Supporter Wiki Contributorreplied to maximilianps on global:last_edited_by,
@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).
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@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.
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In my (admittedly limited) test
frcgenerated 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.
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IrateRedKite Administrators Historic Supporter Wiki Contributorreplied to adoxa on global:last_edited_by,
@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 dltlinks.An aside: is the source for xml2utf available?
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IrateRedKite Administrators Historic Supporter Wiki Contributorreplied to adoxa on global:last_edited_by,
@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.
