mgsv_wiki

This is a collection of links to various repositories, Xentax posts and other stuff related to modding MGSV. Commits are welcome.

File system:

1. Hash algorith (CityHash with seed), use nuget CityHash.Legacy in your C# code

2. Chunk contents

3. More filenames from Paul44 and how to get them, see more posts by him

Tools:

• GzsTool for packing and unpacking .dat files

• GzsTool filebrowser

• MGSVGenStrings by cra0

• List of files in the game, needed for GzsTool

  • Fork with more filenames

• mgsv_path_hasher for creating hashes from filenames

• QuickHash for creating hashes from filenames

Textures:

1. Incomplete ftex structure

2. More ftex structure

3. Even more ftex structure

4. A little bit more about ftex

5. Weird colour textures store the AO, Spec and Alpha Map on the RGB levels

6. High-resolution textures

7. Retexturing outfits

8. How mgo textures are stored

9. Small how-to on FtexTool

10. Texture channels

Tools:

• FtexTool

Models:

1. Fmdl structure

2. Textures in fmdl

3. More fmdl info

4. Models are multimodels

5. LOD faces

Editing models:

1. Where the characters models are

2. Some info about replacing models

3. Fixing gun-stomach bug when swapping models

4. Removing hip weapon model

5. Some info about working with models using 3dsmax

6. Hex-nulling the model

7. 3dsmax script for nulling

8. Vertex reposition script

9. Reposition mesh parts

10. Tutorial about editing faces

11. Fixing first person for swapped models

Other:

• Mgo hat filenames

• What are sim files for

• Custom texture names in models

• On attaching models to each other

FV2:

1. General info

2. More general info

3. Fv2 format

4. More about structure

5. Fv2 research, how-tos and stuff

Motions:

1. General info

2. More detailed info about motions

Tools:

• MtarTool

Sound:

1. Wem files (Regular Wwise audio file, the converter is easy to find online)

2. Sound files

3. More on editing sounds, distortion bug

4. Missing sounds, JUNK-chunks

5. Fsm format info

6. More fsm info

7. Soundswapping how-to

8. Adding BGM from other missions

Tools:

• FsmTool

Scripts (Lua, XML, etc):

1. How luas are encrypted

2. Langids

3. Lng2 info

4. Soldier stats + reward mechanics in next post

5. Lua script to exec code on button press

6. Player statuses

7. Nightvision parameters

8. Animals

9. Weapon p-parameters

10. Equipping chicken hat

11. Equip Develop Flow Setting

12. List of unique soldiers with stats and where to find them

13. Dump of all lua code in the game

14. Dump of all classes and functions in the game

15. Making monster guns

16. Client emulator

17. Route files

18. Cleaned dump of strings from exe

Tools:

• FoxTool - various script format support

• FoxEngine.TranslationTool - working with lng and subtitle files

• LangIds to use with FoxTool and FoxEngine.TranslationTool

• foxStrCode32 - encode string into numbers to use ingame

UI:

1. Some ui info

Other:

• How SnakeBite works
• Dirty player mechanics
• Friendly AI vs enemy AI