http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/26845/Analysis_Reverse_Engineering_and_You.php
I am working on learning this stuff. Since my playing the lottery and buying the game effort is not going so well.
good stuff
Another interesting article!
http://www.worldofleveldesign.com/categories/level_design_tutorials/how-to-reverse-engineer-leve-design-game-environment-art.php
Could UDK be used to reverse engineer something like CoH and adapt it in - or would that be more work than trying to resurrect the original?
What I am interested in and may actually approach some programmers with the idea - is making a City of Heroes single player game "based" on the world map and game play. I am saying this because that was the way the Earth and beyond folks did it - they adapted the MMO to single player and got the bugs out and then added in the multi-player aspect.
http://www.freelancer.com/work/hire-reverse-engineer-programmer is one source and there are several others. Still looking and searching, not giving up.
Does anyone know if you could convert .pigg files and open them within UDK or some other game engine?
Quote from: Ironwolf on March 05, 2014, 03:19:37 PM
Does anyone know if you could convert .pigg files and open them within UDK or some other game engine?
Most likely not, or at least not directly because the files within those .pigg files are in formats that UDK won't recognize. You would have to convert them to some other format, such as .fbx or .tga files (models/animations and textures respectively) and then import those files that UDK does recognize into your content browser.
For the most part, the textures are super easy to convert over(hence how texture editing was so simple to do in CoH), the problem is converting the 3D Models while retaining animation data, and converting said animation data into something usable by UDK.
Likewise for pretty much every other game engine out there.
Of course, if your goal with that question is that you want to remake the entire game in a different engine, you're basically going to have to start from scratch anyways, so your best bet is to either help out one of the Plan Z's that are already going, or wait until one's finished.