Costume viewer / editor utility.

[Adelante]

A very big "Thank You" to all the helpful people in this thread.   I have been craving, CRAVING my CoH fix and this has helped immensely.

[wei yau]

They're mostly compatible. It's actually really easy to go from .costume -> .cohdemo, but significantly harder to go the other way.

This is the best news I've heard in a good long while.  I won't have time to try anything until tomorrow or this weekend. 

If I am successful, then I should be able to translate any of my .costume files into a .cohdemo compatible format for use in demo playback...right?

Yes?

[Vasarto]

Downloading the character thingy now and gonna test it. No idea how it will look or how it will run.

[Codewalker]

Yes, that should actually be fairly simple. Off the top of my head you'll need to consolidate all of the *Scales into one line, and you'll need to convert the colors from RGB triplets to 001122 html-style hex digits. The geometry and texture parts should be the same, and you can just leave out the display name, region, and bodyset.

[redgiant]

Does Sentinel's current XML schema alow for things like boneset, even if not in current files?

Depending on how it pokes around to gather its data, maybe this isn't available at display-level. But I was wondering more about future uses of Sentinel data files such as editing.

guess what I'm really asking: Is Sentinel data going to become the format hub for all purposes when there is a choice, since it is controlled by currently active devs?

[Arachnion]

Here are some costume/demorecord resources I compiled.

EDIT: http://planz.basketcasesoftware.com/uploads/1354765161.rar (replaced link)

21 RTF files. Plaintext. From beta's bin.pigg. Contains maps, npc model names, all sorts of stuff.

When you see .minimap and .mapstats in there, you should be able to change them to .txt and then view them properly (working form) in demorecords.

To people running the Korean creator, don't forget there's a tutorial post by Xieveral on the previous page (2).

[Globetrotter]

WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING

Here are some costume/demorecord resources I compiled.

http://www.mediafire.com/?vr185ndxkah4dp2

21 RTF files. Plaintext. From beta's bin.pigg. Contains maps, npc model names, all sorts of stuff.

When you see .minimap and .mapstats in there, you should be able to change them to .txt and then view them properly (working form) in demorecords.

To people running the Korean creator, don't forget there's a tutorial post by Xieveral on the previous page (2).

Downloading that file from mediafire resulted in virus locking up my computer! Having a verey hard time getting it back to wrok now.   :'(

[avelworldcreator]

WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING
Downloading that file from mediafire resulted in virus locking up my computer! Having a verey hard time getting it back to wrok now.   :'(

Ouch. The mediafire site might have been infected. ALWAYS do a virus scan on any downloads from unfamiliar sites before installing. If you have to create a sandbox and try it out there.

[Glass Goblin]

Ouch. The mediafire site might have been infected. ALWAYS do a virus scan on any downloads from unfamiliar sites before installing. If you have to create a sandbox and try it out there.

Also, make sure you hit the actual download link, and not one of the intensely annoying ads pretending to be the download links. (I'm looking at you, iLivid.) I didn't run into a problem with Arachnion's file yesterday, though.

[Arachnion]

WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING
Downloading that file from mediafire resulted in virus locking up my computer! Having a verey hard time getting it back to wrok now.   :'(

It's just text files, dude.

https://i.imgur.com/jaF1W.png

Mediafire is a relatively well known file sharing site.

Sorry that happened to you, man.

To think trying to help messed someone up :-\

[corvus1970]

You didn't cause issue friend, its mediafire's fault.

[Arachnion]

I put a direct link to the Mediafire download now, in that post.

Hopefully this will prevent further problems  :(

[Globetrotter]

It's just text files, dude.

https://i.imgur.com/jaF1W.png

Mediafire is a relatively well known file sharing site.

Sorry that happened to you, man.

To think trying to help messed someone up :-\

Problem is fixed using malware-bytes.

It is not your fault, I am sure. It is the site. But yeah, first time this ever happened to me.

[Arachnion]

Problem is fixed using malware-bytes.

It is not your fault, I am sure. It is the site. But yeah, first time this ever happened to me.

Sorry again.

It's just I don't use any other file sharing websites.... and my free-class dropbox is full.

I never meant for anything harmful or malicious. I've replaced the links.

[avelworldcreator]

If needs be I'll let you file share off of my site. Nothing fancy, but you'll have to PM me for details.

[The Fifth Horseman]

There are a few things one can do to stay safe on filesharing sites:
1.  Use JDownloader instead of your browser to download. As long as it has the right plugin for the site in question, no more accidental clicks on ads or malware downloads.
2. If using Firefox, install NoScript, RequestPolicy and AdBlock Plus. No site will run any sort of scripts (including Flash and Java based applications), redirect you or download content from another domain without your explicit say-so. It's a bit on the paranoid side, admittedly, but I'd rather have to manually approve every single "safe" script or site than have to exorcise another assinine virus from my HDD and change all of my passwords again.

[corvus1970]

Superb suggestions, Fifth Horseman!

[Kistulot]

I've had this utility installed for a long time, but I could never get the permissions to lock the way I needed after changing the locale. Thank you for the tutorial! It felt... immensely relieving to have an approximation of Sarah running through emotes (her cape isn't in there, I can't texture her boots right, and her skirt is off, but everything else is perfect!)  like old times.

Thanks for helping me feel a lot better :)

[Vasarto]

OMFG

I ignored the part where it said how VERY OLD

it was.

I did not even recognize the graphics, the interface or....just anything about the costume generator. There is no possible way I can recreate my main character with that engine.

[MisterMagpie]

Oh, I'm so glad there's something here I can use! Following instructions now.

EDIT: IT WORKED! Oh my gosh, there's flannel in here I've dreamt of flannel.

Ultimate dream fulfilled, new ultimate dream: Someone makes the later costume pieces available somehow.