Since we
lastchecked in,
UnnamedCharacterhas made a large number of expansions and improvements to his Wing Commander library project. The software toolkit (implemented in .NET v4) provides a programming interface for working with Wing Commander 1 data files. The creation of a mission editor or full-blown modding becomes a lot easier, since developers no longer need to worry about reading or writing WC1's arcane file formats. The WC Library
packagealso provides two demo applications; one for extracting game assets from resource files, another for converting game data to or from human-readable XML. The latest version supports the following formats:
- CAMP (reading and writing)
- BRIEFING (reading and writing)
- MODULE (reading and writing)
- COMM (reading and writing)
- VGA (reading and writing)
- SHIP (as VGA, reading and writing)
- PAL (reading only)
- SHIPTYPE (reading only)
- PCSHIP (reading only)
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