H2otool - H20 Archive Archiver/Extraction Utility (Modding BR)

[Mana 3,867]

A very good guy named Tobias has made the best tool for Battle Realms yet!

This tool called "H2OTool" allows us to make and extract H20 archives! It is now finally possible to modify Battle Realms!

Most of the game textures are in .TGA format which should prove easy to do such things as upgrading the graphics quality or changing sounds.

The download for the tool is located here:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=191074

More info on using the tool:

H2OTOOL - h2o archive utility v1.0 - sigget 2007

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Usage : h2otool <command> [archive] [directory]

Where command is one of: info, list, extract, build or help

Examples :

To display info about an archive type:

h2otool info <archive>

To list the contents of an archive type:

h2otool list <archive>

To extract the contents of an archive type:

h2otool extract <archive> <target directory>

To build an archive from the contents of a directory type:

h2otool build <archive> <source directory>

Happy Modding!

[Thirteen_Orb_Bearer_Teppo 4]

i already download and try it but i cant....can u tell why it is????

[Tjolbi 0]

this is quite spectacular news

great job tobias 8)

[Mana 3,867]

It's a command line tool, you need to run it in CMD:

Windows XP:

Start -> Run -> Type in "cmd" press enter and drag and drop the h2otool.exe into the CMD prompt window.

Windows Vista

Start -> In search box type in "cmd" and press enter. Now type in the location of the h2otool.exe into the command prompt window.

Any questions?

[Buddy13 0]

Awesome. I demand to be informed when a BR mod is created. Do it!

[email protected]

www.overt-ops.com

[Thirteen_Orb_Bearer_Teppo 4]

are ever try it Lord Zymeth,and are its working????

[Mana 3,867]

Yes I did, multiple times.

[Unholy Archon 1]

Is it at all possible, if someone could write a tutorial or something similar to explain how to modify games? Because I've always been dying to try this, and modifying Battle Realms would be a dream come true to be honest.

Also I believe, if there was some way to teach people clearly how to modify the game or games in general, having many people modify the game, coming up with a huge array of ideas is better than the only the few people that know how to modify games.

Much Appreciated

[DJ Blades 0]

ya same here becuase normel i am good at this stuff and i am loss mybe becuase its 2 simple lol i dont liek wen codes a simple i like wen they are hard

[{{clan}}UnablE 2]

must i download something first before it works?

[genobreaker 0]

well is this really came true!! lol

i saw this on my mail and shocked that now someone who cracks it up... ^__^

i dream of making a mod of this but game is hardcoded...

[Stormalias 1]

maybe zymeth u shold make like a guide, like the mapping guide, for this so ppl who dont noe how to use this might know...its cool that we can do this though.

and on the download page there are two sources. which is te right one....?

[{Dark}WolfBite 2]

now if we can just get better game servers.

[{Dark}WolfBite 2]

now if we can just get better game servers.

[lordserpent 0]

awesome cool ^^ know i can made a kenji for multiplayer:P

[Mana 3,867]

I'll make one later .

[Kasedo 1]

lol, interesting i'll play with this later i got unfinish work atm..zZz laterZ

[tomonnk 2]

For both Serpent & Dragon, the Kenjis in lasts missions

But maybe Kenji can alone unbalance the clans... IDK

[Maeve 0]

OK - i need some help here - what do i do after i run cmb and drag it in and what...nextt...?? i want to reskin the WHOLE 4 clans, and i'll be submitting the mod here. if i can get the skins out. dont worry about the skinning. I can skin . Check some of my wc3 stuff. ^^

Tess

[Thirteen_Orb_Bearer_Teppo 4]

uh....

i still dont understant how to use it...can u explain it more detail and if u can pls with the picture.....

[{{clan}}UnablE 2]

me too i just know that i must click on cmd not more what do you mean with location?

[Maeve 0]

this community is so selfish at knowledge

[Sinophile 41]

When I saw this I literally said "holy fucking shit"

This is awesome

like, nerd awesome

Okay, we need some CGI guys to make Utara younger and sexier k?

[Brain112 0]

>.< i wanna know how this thing works

[Nynx 1]

It's not too hard. I finally figured out how this thingy works.

As Zymeth said you need to open the cmd prompt. And there you write what he quoted:

Usage : h2otool <command> [archive] [directory]

BUT instead of "h2otool" you type (or drag&drop) the directory where you put it in.

After that you type one of the commands:

To display info about an archive type:

h2otool info <archive>

To list the contents of an archive type:

h2otool list <archive>

To extract the contents of an archive type:

h2otool extract <archive> <target directory>

To build an archive from the contents of a directory type:

h2otool build <archive> <source directory>

Instead of archive you type (or drag&drop) the directory of the .h2o archive u want to work with.

And finally if you use "extract" or "build" you type (or...well i think you know now ) the path of your target directory.

Et voilà...