Database Maker/Generator is part of xtool and this post is dedicated to explaining how it works.
If xtool does not have a plugin designed to work for a certain input or game but if for example you managed to extract (not unpack) streams a certain file has then you order xtool to create a plugin in a form of a database file which can then be used within the program.
The syntax is as follows:
Code:
xtool generate [parameters] extracted_streams original_data database_output
Parameters:
-m# - codec to use for precompression
-c# - scanning range of precompressor [16mb]
-t# - number of working threads [50p]
the inputs of both
extracted_streams and
original_data can either be a file or a folder (wildcards/masks) are accepted.
Example:
Code:
xtool.exe generate -mxcompress "VehicleHRLiveries.bff_extract\*" "VehicleHRLiveries.bff" pcars.xtl