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Hello. This question is for the programers who program starcraft stuff. How do you read the starcraft files (like .trg and .scm and stuff)

.SCM/SCX files are actually MPQ files that store a .CHK file with your maps information and any sounds you have. Information about the .CHK is found at CC.org.

http://campaigncreations.org/starcraft/sta...chkformat.shtml

How to extract the scenario.chk from the MoPaQ:
http://shadowflare.gameproc.com/inside_mopaq/

Good luck getting something from that website. It's down or real slow most of the time.

Not for me, but here's another mirror of it:
http://www.campaigncreations.org/starcraft/inside_mopaq/
(This one isn't as complete)

That thing doesn't make any sense for me.
Mostly because it uses C++ and VB while I only know PHP.

So .scm's and .scx's are pretty useless for web-based programs.
Note that down Vicious.

How do I decode .chk's?
(I need more help than that link. )

ADDITION:
And if someone does get the .chk out of the MPQ with PHP (So basically no one seeing as very few people use it here ) ...I'd love some help.
http://www.rexyrex.hostmatrix.org/chk_project

Also, I can't get it to read as hex, so I disabled the reading for now.

ADDITION:
That's a lot of emoticons.

Well that sux, I don't know C++.. Im still trying to understand that article right now, its pretty confusing.

If it's not going to help you, it's not worth reading.
I learned a bit from it, but it's still of no use to me. LegacyWeapon told me MpqCtrl.ocx is the easy way out anyways.
SF uses it, SCMD (I think) does, uber@tion does...

Lot of older programs use Storm.dll API functions and lmpqapi.dll

That's what I meant.
It says so in the link you posted. It has the function lists.
Anyways, .dll's don't work online. So more grief for Rexy.

You could do what the MPQ Compactor does. First generate a script of commands to open an MPQ, add/update/extract files from it, and close it. Then call WinMPQ or MPQ2K using one of the shell commands, wait until their execution is complete, and then mess around with your newly extracted files. It will be a huge load on your webserver to do it this way, but if DLLs are not for you, then you don't have any other choice.

Whats MpqCtrl.ocx?

If I were to delete the temporary file, actual file, etc..would I still be raping my server? Also, do uploads use bandwidth? I never knew.
Anyways, I don't even know what a shell command is.

Hey, BST, you should drop me a line on MSN or AIM.

ADDITION:
Things I need help with...

• Script of commands to open a MPQ.
• Calling WinMPQ or MPQ2K.
• Shell commands.

If this does totally own my server, then I'll just toy around on localhost.

Heh, I'm sure you know what a shell command is, I'm just using geekspeak. It's just running a program with parameters, just like going to Start > Run and typing a command there. If you use shell_exec in PHP you can run a "shell command" also known as a program, with some parameters. Look at the WinMPQ manual, it's got a big long description of all the command line parameters you can give it. A script is just like a whole lot of those commands stuck together, it's all in the manual.

If you try copying WinMPQ to your server (your server would need to be a windows one), and then running "shell" commands on WinMPQ, you could test whether it works. Here's some example code for it:

Then in your code you could check the file which would be extracted to C:\Extract Files\scenario.chk and you might be surprised.

The reason I say it'll probably be slow is because it has to start up a new instance of WinMPQ every time you want to run a command, and so if a lot of people are on extracting this, adding that, it would be quite slow. It really depends on the kind of traffic you get.

The most traffic I will ever get is from myself testing. I'll try it and see what my bandwidth looks like, it seems as if I have unlimited disk space.

But, um, wait...would this work on Linux? How about MpqCtl.ocx?

Eh, thanks for all the help you've given me BST.

You're welcome. But, WinMPQ won't work on Linux unfortunately, neither will anything with the extension OCX, since OCX means ActiveX, which is Microsoft-only. So... yeah, that might be a problem...


Well, it's not really bandwidth, it's more to do with processing power. But if it's only really you doing it, then you'll have no problem, it'll be no worse than yourself using WinMPQ yourself. Just imagine 10 people using WinMPQ on your computer at the same time... that's the slowness I'm talking about.

Oh, I get it now.
I guess I won't be able to publicly play with this, but thats okay with me because, like I said, I'm usually the one using it. Well...soon I'll have this working, hopefully.

Thank you BST!