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Qowyn / ark-tools

Tools to work with the binary files of ark. Extract information, manipulate them or write them from scratch.
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Ark Data Decoding #45

Open nisutec opened 3 years ago

nisutec commented 3 years ago

Hello, Can anyone tell my how Ark encodes the save data. I cannot find any information about this topic online. And what structure is the encoded data is it an array, an object or another data type.

zokradonh commented 3 years ago

There is no documentation as far as I know. Qowyn made some brilliant work with binary analysis.

Read the source code of Qowyn's tool to understand the binary structure of the save data. For example this function: https://github.com/Qowyn/ark-savegame-toolkit/blob/5520d22c68c8231a1007c591a79853d7c6d0a589/src/main/java/qowyn/ark/GameObject.java#L322

They seem to be object based, yes.