miragedmuk
Will this be updated to support the new UE5.5 changes?
Thats the plan... but its very much hacking away at the save file format again to work out what's changed and how to support it. Could take some time.
I hope you'll figure out how to update ASV. It's an invaluable app for server management.
Any update on progress for updating this to read UE 5.5 and do you need any help?
Update is that my back issues have been much improved over the last couple of weeks after treatment but still quite tender by the time I've finished work on the day job.
For this reason I've only really got Saturday/Sunday mornings to try and get it all updated as I'm too uncomfortable by the time I finish the day job to do anything on this on an evening.
Made some progress last Sunday that I've yet to check-in but wanted to try and hook up the new parser code into the UI before I updated my github repo.
I have no plans at all next weekend so hopefully get it all boxed off and released.
Update is that my back issues have been much improved over the last couple of weeks after treatment but still quite tender by the time I've finished work on the day job.
For this reason I've only really got Saturday/Sunday mornings to try and get it all updated as I'm too uncomfortable by the time I finish the day job to do anything on this on an evening.
Made some progress last Sunday that I've yet to check-in but wanted to try and hook up the new parser code into the UI before I updated my github repo.
I have no plans at all next weekend so hopefully get it all boxed off and released.
Health and family first. Take your time to heal and then procede to take time to cook It.
Just let us know if it's a dead project or there's hope. Not the entire timeline or work progress, just "yes or no" thing.
@miragedmuk I hope you are ok health wise since we haven't heard from you for a while. Please recover from whatever issues you are having and don't worry about this tool. Your health is more important.
To pick up from miragedmuk since he is having health issues I just wanted to let people know I have started on writing my own tools for Ark ASA saves and the new tools will be written in NodeJS for cross platform support. Currently I have mapped out the new save format using SQL Lite database viewer and Hex editor and I believe I understand most of the save file now and have started coding a reader. I do plan on trying to make the tool a repair tool as well to try and recover save files from corruption since we haven't had that before.
The new ASA save toolkit is being developed at https://github.com/pixelfoundries/pixel-asa-save-toolkit and will be MIT license so others can contribute once it is completed. This first project will just be a reader and writter that will be able to export as JSON or be used as a library by other projects. The ASV replacement will be developed after this first project is completed.
@Caelin how you getting on? its looking a little empty at the moment.
I've literally just this weekend started to spend some time on ASV again. I did a complete re-write of my parsing code to better match Kakoens so it'll be easier for us to keep up to date with each others work but there is still some work to be done before it even reads the old format.
Once I've caught up with that implementing the required changes for new format shouldn't take too long.
I'm hoping to have something to start testing the new format by the end of this week.
@miragedmuk good to hear from you hope everything is ok with your health and yes it is a little empty right now as I had to put the coding on hold for a little bit as my daughter got hip surgery so I was helping take care of her. Just had gotten the framework setup this last week to start some serious coding and I did get the file format figured out and a UML diagram built for the toolkit.
Much better thank you - still got the odd "tingling" sensation but for the most part its no longer crippling pain.
Still not 100% so not spending a LOT of time on ASV yet but just trying to catch up with anything and everything I've missed and work out what I had left to do on my parser re-write. Seems I have it reading in most old format data types.. but then it gets to the Struct of Array of Struct.. of Array.. of Bytes and my code is breaking. Obviously missed something from my old parsing code that hasn't been included in my re-write. Annoying multiple nested "CustomData" properties!