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projins

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Modding PAK files May 5, 2019 4:17:17 GMT 10

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Post by projins on May 5, 2019 4:17:17 GMT 10

May 5, 2019 1:41:46 GMT 10 FluffyQuack said:

Do you get any crashes like without the "cleon" mod?No, it's too complicated now and you can not initialize the mode. I plan to do it later when I get a chance.

I updated the trainer yesterday. Download link is still the same, so you can test if it works for you now.

projins Posts: 28	Modding PAK files May 8, 2019 19:13:58 GMT 10 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by projins on May 8, 2019 19:13:58 GMT 10 It's another update now. T_T

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Modding PAK files May 8, 2019 20:32:37 GMT 10

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Post by FluffyQuack on May 8, 2019 20:32:37 GMT 10

May 8, 2019 19:13:58 GMT 10 projins said:

It's another update now. T_T

Today's patch did not affect the executable, so the trainer should still work. People might wanna click on "re-read game archives" so the mod manager knows of the changes done to the PAK file.

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Modding PAK files May 8, 2019 20:38:41 GMT 10

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Post by josmiin on May 8, 2019 20:38:41 GMT 10

May 5, 2019 1:41:46 GMT 10 FluffyQuack said:

May 4, 2019 21:27:14 GMT 10 josmiin said:

Hello,

Thank you for being so active lately.

I would like to know, is there any way to fix the "unsupported game version" for the trainer, i read you had to update it right?
Will you plan to do so? Thank you in advance for replying !

I updated the trainer yesterday. Download link is still the same, so you can test if it works for you now.

It does work! Thank you very much.

benjaminsisko

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Modding PAK files May 8, 2019 20:58:19 GMT 10

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Post by benjaminsisko on May 8, 2019 20:58:19 GMT 10

Error: Failed to open c:/program files (x86)/steam/steamapps/common/RESIDENT EVIL 2 BIOHAZARD RE2\re_chunk_000.pak for reading and writing during path re-validation.
Failed to uninstall mod due to re-invalidation error.

time to copy 24gb of backup files:/

Anyway to avoid this when the game updates?

projins

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Modding PAK files May 8, 2019 21:53:05 GMT 10

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Post by projins on May 8, 2019 21:53:05 GMT 10

After initialization after the new patch, I tried to find out the error that caused the character error last time. When I change Leon to Claire, I still get the error. And I changed the Claire to Karin, but I do not get an error, but the event does not happen.If there is an error or a stop, you will see an error or an event that did not occur when you are next to the police car at the start.

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Modding PAK files May 8, 2019 21:54:42 GMT 10

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Post by projins on May 8, 2019 21:54:42 GMT 10

May 8, 2019 20:38:41 GMT 10 josmiin said:

May 5, 2019 1:41:46 GMT 10 FluffyQuack said:

I updated the trainer yesterday. Download link is still the same, so you can test if it works for you now.

It does work! Thank you very much.

THANK YOU

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Modding PAK files May 9, 2019 19:33:28 GMT 10

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Post by FluffyQuack on May 9, 2019 19:33:28 GMT 10

May 8, 2019 20:58:19 GMT 10 benjaminsisko said:

Error: Failed to open c:/program files (x86)/steam/steamapps/common/RESIDENT EVIL 2 BIOHAZARD RE2\re_chunk_000.pak for reading and writing during path re-validation.
Failed to uninstall mod due to re-invalidation error.

time to copy 24gb of backup files:/

Anyway to avoid this when the game updates?

The easiest way to avoid this is to have no mods installed when the game gets patched.

If you have mods installed, you could check "force uninstalls", uninstall the mods, and hope the patch fully overwrote the PAK file rather than update parts of it. In that case, you're fine.

I'm not sure if there's anything I can do to make this work better. The problem is that there is no way for me to track what part of PAK files was modified when the game gets patched. So far we've been lucky that Capcom has decided to add new PAK files rather than patch/replace old ones, but yesterday's patch did a big update to the main PAK file.

Edit: The error message you get seems weird, though. The mod manager shouldn't ever have a problem opening the PAK files. Was the game being actively patched by Steam as you tried to uninstall mods?

Last Edit: May 9, 2019 19:36:30 GMT 10 by FluffyQuack

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Modding PAK files May 9, 2019 20:29:09 GMT 10

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Post by benjaminsisko on May 9, 2019 20:29:09 GMT 10

The pak file was locked by an unknown application. needed a windows restart to release it.

I re downloaded the game and reinstalled mod manager to reset everything and be sure there were no invalidated files in the pak.

All good

echelon5 Posts: 104	Modding PAK files May 25, 2019 22:50:13 GMT 10 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by echelon5 on May 25, 2019 22:50:13 GMT 10 I'm getting a crash whenever I hover over one of Snip's weapon reskins in the manager. I have the latest version so I dunno what's up!

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Modding PAK files May 26, 2019 2:33:36 GMT 10

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Post by FluffyQuack on May 26, 2019 2:33:36 GMT 10

May 25, 2019 22:50:13 GMT 10 echelon5 said:

I'm getting a crash whenever I hover over one of Snip's weapon reskins in the manager. I have the latest version so I dunno what's up!

Can you hover over other mods without it crashing? If so, can you link one mod which causes a crash?

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Modding PAK files May 26, 2019 3:50:22 GMT 10

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Post by echelon5 on May 26, 2019 3:50:22 GMT 10

May 26, 2019 2:33:36 GMT 10 FluffyQuack said:

May 25, 2019 22:50:13 GMT 10 echelon5 said:

I'm getting a crash whenever I hover over one of Snip's weapon reskins in the manager. I have the latest version so I dunno what's up!

Can you hover over other mods without it crashing? If so, can you link one mod which causes a crash?

Yes, other mods are fine.

www.nexusmods.com/residentevil22019/mods/227 It happens with any of Snipz' weapon reskins.

I did sort of fix it, but I don't know EXACTLY what the problem is. What I did was unzip the mod's rar file, shorten some of the text lines in the ini, then repack it as a rar myself. Maybe some text strings are messing up the mod loader?

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Modding PAK files May 26, 2019 4:39:32 GMT 10

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Post by FluffyQuack on May 26, 2019 4:39:32 GMT 10

May 26, 2019 3:50:22 GMT 10 echelon5 said:

May 26, 2019 2:33:36 GMT 10 FluffyQuack said:

Can you hover over other mods without it crashing? If so, can you link one mod which causes a crash?

Yes, other mods are fine.

www.nexusmods.com/residentevil22019/mods/227 It happens with any of Snipz' weapon reskins.

I did sort of fix it, but I don't know EXACTLY what the problem is. What I did was unzip the mod's rar file, shorten some of the text lines in the ini, then repack it as a rar myself. Maybe some text strings are messing up the mod loader?

Hmm, I'm getting the crash using one of his Beretta mods, but it doesn't happen on my latest WIP build. I've rewritten all the code related to loading mod information, and I must have had poor error handling if any text exceeded any limit in the old version.

I'm not sure when this version is ready as I have some more features to add and then I wanna do a bunch of testing, so I think I'll just poke snipz and ask him to fix the mods which cause a crash.

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Modding PAK files May 27, 2019 3:52:48 GMT 10 ReiKaz likes this

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Post by FluffyQuack on May 27, 2019 3:52:48 GMT 10

New WIP build: www.fluffyquack.com/WIP/modmanager.rar
Changelog: pastebin.com/raw/S9uMttqU

This new version has a bunch of changes, so I'm gonna wait before I make it a proper public release. If anyone can test it and report bugs, that would be appreciated.

One of the additions to this new version is a system for tagging mods with categories. It's up to mod authors to add lines like these to the modinfo.ini file:

category=Model
category=Claire

Each mod can have up to 10 tags.

Here are some tags I suggest using:

Music mod:
category=Music
Reskin mod for one of Claire's outfits:

category=Texture
category=Claire

All new outfit (model mod) for one of Claire's outfits:

category=Model
category=Claire

Sound mod (sound effects, voices, etc):
category=Sound
Nude mod for Claire (aka, 50% of the mods uploaded to Nexus):

category=Model
category=Claire
category=NSFW

UI re-texture or edit:
category=UI
For just about everything else:
category=Misc

Last Edit: May 27, 2019 4:04:25 GMT 10 by FluffyQuack

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Modding PAK files May 27, 2019 7:30:55 GMT 10

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Post by gcleveland on May 27, 2019 7:30:55 GMT 10

Fluffy, quick question.
I have issues with the 2b no skirt mod. I have tried a alternate version that is known working for multiple people but it wont show up in game for me.. The regular version shows no heads on any character.
I have completely reinstalled the game and this latest version of MM.
Is there any separate place that MM stores files, such as appdata etc, or is it all in its own semi portable directory?