DEACC

Hyena · Post by **Hyena** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 11:01 am

Can we please have a new version of Deacc? Extracting scripts is currently impossible with nearly every script I try it on.

(If there is a new version of Deacc, I can't find it anywhere)

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 12:42 pm

That's due to the new format. There is currently no ACS decompiler which understands it. Unfortunately there is also no released source code for an ACS decompiler. Otherwise I would have updated it a long time ago

Cyb · Post by **Cyb** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 1:19 pm

one more reason to include uncompiled scripts in the wad...

Post by **randi** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 1:28 pm

Graf Zahl wrote:Unfortunately there is also no released source code for an ACS decompiler. Otherwise I would have updated it a long time ago

I found the source for DEACC in the WinTex source archive. It is quite old and will probably need some work to even make it compile now.

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 3:23 pm

randy wrote:
Graf Zahl wrote:Unfortunately there is also no released source code for an ACS decompiler. Otherwise I would have updated it a long time ago
I found the source for DEACC in the WinTex source archive. It is quite old and will probably need some work to even make it compile now.

Thanks! I've been looking for this stuff for ages. Let's see what I can do with it.

Hyena · Post by **Hyena** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 3:24 pm

Cyb wrote:one more reason to include uncompiled scripts in the wad...

Yes. Unfortunately, a member of my team sent me a level a while ago and now I can't track him down to get the script. Decompiling the script seems to be my only option at this point, and it seems to be impossible.

Hirogen2 · Post by **Hirogen2** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 11:15 am

Maybe you can get randomlag to release the DeepDEACC source.

HotWax · Post by **HotWax** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 12:25 pm

Hirogen2 wrote:Maybe you can get randomlag to release the DeepDEACC source.

Or the moon to do backflips.

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 4:16 pm

I just tried to compile the Deacc source. Unfortunately it's incomplete as the main .c file (deacc.c) is missing. In its current state I don't see any chance to use this without doing some major research first

EDIT: I just got it to compile a raw Hexen style BEHAVIOR lump. The next steps are to handle actual WAD files and to extend the line special output to ZDoom and add names for Doom and Heretic stuff. After that I'll add support for the new enhanced format. I could use some info about this format, however.

randomlag · Post by **randomlag** » Thu Oct 30, 2003 2:34 am

Yeah, you really don't need main, since all it does is call the behavior thingy.

SargeBaldy · Post by **SargeBaldy** » Thu Oct 30, 2003 2:41 am

hey, good luck with that stuff graf zahl :)

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Thu Oct 30, 2003 3:18 am

randomlag wrote:Yeah, you really don't need main, since all it does is call the behavior thingy.

Yes, I found out already. The code is surprisingly well structured, a pleasantly rare encounter with things like these. I think I can get all the simple stuff running until the weekend.
It's going to be a bit more trouble to do the commands which use multiple pcodes (like hudmessage) because right now I have no idea how they work so I have to do a little research but I at least want the basics running before I try to add functionality for the enhanced format (parts of this are really going to be fun...)

The biggest problem I see right now are the global arrays because I have absolutely no reference material for them. Fortunately this also means that there is probably no script that uses them which means that there are most likely no scripts out there yet which use them. Of course, as soon as I get my hands at something to work with I'll implement support for it, too.