Thor Patcher: patching a grf into another one

[chriser]

Hi guys,

 

does someone know if i can patch a grf file into my standard grf file?

i am having an encrypted grf file which i want to patch into my standard grf file, but i don't know if thor patcher is then merging the 2 grfs or overwriting my standard grf with the one he should patch.

I have no chance of testing if its works, i can only deploy the patch live, and if the patcher overwrites the standard grf with the encrypted one, every user will have to download like 80mb again, which is not acceptable.

(the encrypted one only has some sprites and maps in it, like 1mb or sth, my standard grf has about 80)

 

Greets

chriser

[rmon]

Anyone Can share using thor patcher please ?

[Mr BrycE]

when you create your patcher your specifying the .grf file to be merged with.

just create another thor patcher with different config.

[Whathell]

Patching will merge the two files. And x.file in your patch file will replace x.file in your grf. That's how it works.
But, I believe, encrypted patch files should be patched to encrypted grf too. Encrypted to encrypted, non-encrypted to non-encrypted.

[chriser]

it does not matter if there are encrypted and normal files in the grf, i tested it manually by just merging the 2 grfs with gryff.

 

Yea, I think i will try making another patcher and patch it locally. Thanks guys

Got it working, if someone has the same question:

I just uploded the encrypted grf file which the secure grf tool produced and listed it in the plist.txt (in my case: sdata27-10-13.grf) (important: grf, not thor!)

Thor Patcher then merged this grf file with the standard grf file, now I just have a few files encrypted (some sprites and maps), the whole text and lua files stayed unencrypted which makes patching way easier.

Of course you need to update your client and add the securegrflib.dll and so on, but that should be clear when using secure grf

[mrlongshen]

Sir. If i encrypt the text file. What will happen ???

#securegrf

[chriser]

then you have to encrypt your text file each time you are patching it.

[mrlongshen]

ohhh.

have u try use encypt using this ?

http://rathena.org/board/files/file/2766-grf-editor/

 

i hope u try. its much easy. hoho

[chriser]

No, you can only encrypt with the secure grf tool.

[mrlongshen]

No, you can only encrypt with the secure grf tool.

 

oh ok..

securegrf is good.

can u make full tutorial with a SS ?

using thor patcher.

[chriser]

sure if you want, i will have time to do this today evening or friday.

[mrlongshen]

sure if you want, i will have time to do this today evening or friday.

 

sir how the progress ?