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« on: December 13, 2007, 02:13:22 pm »


Note:

These posts are outdated and some items have changed. Refer to  this thread for creating a SGA




The following process needs to take place for your map to actually have the weather .options file! Exporting your map in the worldbuilder works but does not include the .options file, thus this process is recommended for FINAL map.sga's Smiley.

http://www.corsix.org/cdms/downloads-5.html
Download Corsix' tools first.

Prepare files:
Create a new folder, wherever you want, I suggest desktop for easy access; we'll call ours "map" (name is not important). This folder is just to temporarily hold the map files; it can be deleted afterwards.

In that new folder "map", create a folder named "scenarios".

And in "scenarios", create a folder named "mp".
In "mp",  create a last folder called "Loading", this is ONLY for your mapname.tga loading screen file.
So you should have:

"Map"
  ->  Scenarios
         -> mp (All map files, INCLUDES LOADING SCREEN)
              
            

In "mp" place ALL the map's files, except the .BAK files.


Corsix's Tools:
Download and run Corsix's Tools.

Open a .sga file, f.e "4p_Crossroads" from the EIR/archives folder.

Go to the "Tools" tab and select "SGA packer".

For "Input" select the folder containing "scenarios" (e.g. "map").

For "SGA To Create" select where you want to save the SGA file with the .sga extension.
(Target folder + .sga name, for example D:\Games\Company of Heroes\EuropeInRuins\Archives\4p_Road to Carentan.sga)

Leave "TOC" as "Data" or rename it if it's not.

Create!
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Kolath Offline
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« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2008, 09:30:36 am »

This is how you unpack an sga:

1. Drop the .sga into your coh directory.
2. Open the command prompt (go to Start -> Run -> type "cmd" -> hit enter)
3. Navigate to your coh directory by typing "cd c:\program files\thq\company of heroes" (or wherever your CoH directory is)
4. Once in the directory, type "archive.exe -a [name of the sga].sga -e c:\temp\coh" (or any other directory)  This unpacks the sga to the directory specified after "-e"
5. Viola, now you have the contents of the sga.

Troubleshooting: If it doesn't work, check the file name, it has to match exactly.
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« Reply #2 on: May 25, 2008, 06:59:27 pm »

For "SGA To Create" select where you want to save the SGA file with the .sga extension.
(Target folder + .sga name, for example D:\Games\Company of Heroes\EuropeInRuins\Archives\4p_Road to Carentan.sga)

I do not understand what to do at this stage
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« Reply #3 on: May 27, 2008, 12:23:09 pm »

Keep in mind this is really just for the very final stage maps, simply because only through this method you can add weather options to your map. There's a much easier way of creating map .sgas, in the worldbuilder, with your map open, just go to "export package" and you'll create the .sga Wink.
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« Reply #4 on: May 29, 2008, 06:39:37 pm »

now when i do this i should be able to start up regurlar vCoh and when i export th package again it will just rewrite over what i previously exported?
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UnLimiTeD Offline
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« Reply #5 on: August 25, 2008, 01:52:13 am »

Necromancy!
This is how you unpack an sga:

1. Drop the .sga into your coh directory.
2. Open the command prompt (go to Start -> Run -> type "cmd" -> hit enter)
3. Navigate to your coh directory by typing "cd c:\program files\thq\company of heroes" (or wherever your CoH directory is)
4. Once in the directory, type "archive.exe -a [name of the sga].sga -e c:\temp\coh" (or any other directory)  This unpacks the sga to the directory specified after "-e"
5. Viola, now you have the contents of the sga.

Troubleshooting: If it doesn't work, check the file name, it has to match exactly.

I don't get it.
I can never leave c somehow,   if I enter something around  cd e:

it will show me under the command line :

E:\

and then jump to the next line.


So it could look like this:

C:\Eigene Dateien\cd e:\Spiele
E:\Spiele\

C:\Eigene Dateien\cd e:\Spiele\THQ
E:\Spiele\THQ\

C:\Eigene Dateien\


if I enter cd e:\  it will not react at all.

If I try to make everything in c I get an output along the lines of "archive.exe is not a valid application  (spelling mistake or could not be found) ".

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Lolto Offline
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« Reply #6 on: August 25, 2008, 02:00:47 am »

Didn't understand most of that Unlimited... try locating the directory manually by clicking through everything.  Other than that...  Huh
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UnLimiTeD Offline
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« Reply #7 on: August 25, 2008, 02:25:21 am »

In the cmd I CAN'T leave c.

My CoH folder is in E.
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Kolath Offline
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« Reply #8 on: August 25, 2008, 06:09:25 am »

Just enter "e:\" no quotes.  When changing drive you don't use "cd" (change directory).  Only use cd within a drive.
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UnLimiTeD Offline
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« Reply #9 on: August 25, 2008, 09:25:29 am »

Thanks Smiley 
However, I already found out how to do it with Corsix.
And it's a lot more comfortable.
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Kolath Offline
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« Reply #10 on: August 25, 2008, 10:31:42 am »

Yes, Corsix is another option.

For those not familiar with process, you start corsix and rather than loading the CoH .module file, you click the option to load an individual .sga. 
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« Reply #11 on: June 12, 2009, 05:35:54 am »

Corsix isn't working for me
I tried redownloading it but it still crashes when i try to load the coh module
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« Reply #12 on: June 12, 2009, 05:53:47 am »

Load .sga not .module.
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« Reply #13 on: June 12, 2009, 05:54:51 am »

Due Unkown is Lazy Don´t got time to update this.


Dont open Module, and dont do around 70% of what it says you to do, its outdated to hell

Load a SGA. ANY one, a map or whatever.
Then... Talk to me in vent, this is this a update
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« Reply #14 on: June 12, 2009, 05:57:10 am »

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Corsix's Tools:
Download and run Corsix's Tools.

Open Relic's mod "RelicCOH.module".


Thats wrong, and its in the "how to do"
When i last got it figured out, it works with charm, until then he is just gonna yell at you to get it working (the map), and the guild how to get your map working is wrong that he link you too, its kinda hard to fix it then.

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« Reply #15 on: June 18, 2010, 01:37:18 pm »

this topic needs to be updated.
you dont put the loading image in a seperate folder anymore, and i dont understand kolath's guide to unpack an sga. you can also just unpack it with crosix, maybe explain that?
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Kolath Offline
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« Reply #16 on: June 21, 2010, 02:32:11 pm »

Hmm... well my post from ages ago was about how to pack and unpack maps at the command line, which is nice for doing batch processing of many maps.  I once upon a time wrote a batch command to unpack all .sga's in a directory.  That said, it is entirely possible that relic altered the archive.exe utility since I wrote the guide.

But, my guess is that they haven't changed it.
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« Reply #17 on: June 21, 2010, 02:41:56 pm »

Wow you got Kolath to rise from the dead, wow.
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« Reply #18 on: June 21, 2010, 02:42:49 pm »

hi kolath!

but your batch command will probably not work anymore. relic thinks its awesome to change all directory files etc without reason. everything has changed.

edit: i tried the unpacker through cmd one more time, and it worked  Roll Eyes
still quite hard to do, and why not use crosix since you already need it for sga creating.
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« Reply #19 on: June 21, 2010, 03:59:15 pm »

Black Magic I'm scared.
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