This repository is a part of Yellowcake project.
The library is intended to provide instruments for working with original Fallout™ resources, such as .map, .pro, .dat files, and many others, which were used in classic Fallout™ games. This repository includes example tools, provided for each file format separately, via examples' targets. As for now, they provide basic functionality, printing out parsed information. For complex formats, like .map, not all the fields are well understood, and thus skipped during parsing. Example tools might not print all the parsed info at the time. Nonetheless, almost all fields are being parsed.
It is useful in obvious way for reproducing original game: providing modern, safe and stable codebase to work with original games' resources. It may serve as a documentation for those who want to learn about original file formats. And, finally, its' example tools could be a good starting point for modders of original games. In the beginning it can't do much, though, but in case of significant demand from the community, it might become something bigger, like full-featured map editor; stay tuned.
The project uses CMake as build system. I do my best to keep CMakeLists.txt as simple as possible. The root one has library target and examples targets, which provide separate CMakeLists.txt files. Dependencies are manage through git submodules and including their's CMakeLists.txt as subdirectories.
GitHub Issues is the right place. GitHub Discussion are disabled at the moment, but will be enabled in case of significant activity from community; Discord server might be run in addition, when number of people interested reaches reasonable milestone. As for now, I am handling all issues internally, using additional software.
Currently, only @0xceed is working on the library. While help from the community will be very needed in the future, this early in development I need to focus on creating good example of my vision, guidelines and many, many more.