[Discussion] Rebirth Tools

[alexalsp]

Recently got Rebirth on GOG, and looking forward to modding. Unfortnately cannot find any info about xrcattool except through steam.

I know I'm in a severe minority, but I cannot tolerate Steam. Is it available anywhere else or have I made a mistake buying this through GOG

I have already tried the community cat tool, but it crashes when attemping extract and doesn't appear to be active any more.

Any help appreciated. Also a quick mention to the devs - this game is an underrated gem. I'm so glad I tried it.

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[Tool][Windows/Linux] XRWSunpack - Unpack downloaded from Steam Workshop mods

[emptyhead41]

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[Tool][Windows/Linux] XRWSunpack - Unpack downloaded from Steam Workshop mods

Perfect - thank you.

Modding is not as well documented as I was hoping so got some reading and experimenting to do, but now I can start looking into the files at least

[SeanWH]

Well, as some one else who bought the game on GOG--I too would like to know where I can get the modding tools as I refuse to buy this game on Steam as well.

Any help out there?

Thanks,

[UniTrader]

you dont need to buy the Game on Steam to access them having the Windows Steam Client and a Steam Acc is enough afaik since its seperate from the Game. You can even transfer the Programm between Computers afterwards (using the Cat Tool on Linux via Wine here )

[SeanWH]

Unfortunately you do. They don't even show up in Steam Tools directory, and if I click the install link in the official post regarding the Mod Tools, nothing happens.

[S0ulstr34m]

Are there any tools out there that will compare 2 XML files and automatically generate the XML patching code that is required for the mod pack?

[Ketraar]

I use ComparIt! for comparing files, but I dont think it has the automatic patching code.

MFG

Ketraar

[CBJ]

I'm not aware of any tools that produce XML Patch as output from a file difference operation. The only tricky part, however, is getting the path syntax right for the add or replace operation. The rest is just a question of pasting the new or replacement XML within the patch node.

[UniTrader]

not sure if i still have it, but i had a cli programm which did this.. but i dont consider it useable because its XPaths looked like this:
<add sel="/*[1]/*[5]/*[3]/*[7]/*[2]"><stuff/><add>

this might work for patching a specific file in a specific version, but everything else will very likely fail.. or mess everything up instead of gracefully not applying changes and writing an error to the log...