0.34.0
Been a good while since I did a release, but thought I should make one to mark some progress. This release has a new CLI tool, what I've dubbed the "Red Horizon Explorer" (run ./bin/explorer
or ./bin/explorer.bat
) whose goal is to be able to browse your file system and C&C's mix files like you would a normal file explorer. I got tired of having to extract files from mix files, or having to know the name of a file in advance inside the mix file just to look at them, so this is something I've wanted to make for a while.
It's OK at browsing the file system, and can currently only peek into Red Alert's Conquer.mix
file (mostly contained unit/structure graphics). This is because the metadata in mix files on what is inside them is rather sparse, so you have to manually build these lookup tables and writing ones for every mix file is quite tedious!
So it's pretty rough for now, but I'm hoping to make lots of improvements in future releases.