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[LvR]

I've just released a set of tools for FP : Companion Tools for FP 1.9

Here is the tools list :
fpm-dump.exe : dump the content of a .fpm in a readable format.
fpt-dump.exe : dump the content of a .fpt in a readable format.

This is just some command line tool to dump all elements found in those files (Some field are yet unknown, but I'll improve this later).

It's also very usefull if you want to see differences between two tables, or two version of a table.
It was very hard to known what was modified on a table, but now just dump the content of both tables and see differences with any text diff tool.

As I have wrote a lib to access FP files, I can quickly build other tools depending on yours needs :
For example if you need a tool that just list all elements of a table, sorted, with playfield coords ? or do some export in a particular format, etc ....
I'll have already some new ideas but I will listen to your suggestion before starting.

[Shockman]

Can this be used to change values and put back into a .fpt?

The reason I ask is that if by chance it could, it might overcome the problem (as I see it) of not being able to set values in FP other than selecting one of his presets or the other.

Does it let you peek at values inside of functions, or just user settings?

Cool anyway.

[Popotte]

Another nice tools. A listing of all elements with playfield coords would be interesting (and with a flag Used or not).

[wtiger]

Thanks LvR!

[Jerry Winter]

A tool that shows how many GFX are used (total) in a table would be nice

Edited by Jerry Winter, 21 May 2010 - 07:45 AM.

[LvR]

A tool that shows how many GFX are used (total) in a table would be nice

In fact in the current dump, you have all the infos ... just need to aggregate what you want.

I'll do some improvement on my lib to better identify items like texture, sound, etc so a stats tools could be easy to code.

[sza]

Thanks!

Amazing program!
Seems like you know fpt format specifications well.
With this and a set of models one could build an exporter to export fpt to 3d model files of pinballs (e.g. for 3d arcade)
or to a future pinball simulators shall anything new be released one day. This way tables could even outlive the futurepinball itself.