Support usage outside the Godot engine, as a standalone program

[CypElf]

Hello, I would suggest to create another version of the project besides the Godot module. It would be way easier to use, as it's not the easiest thing to have to recompile the Godot engine with this module. With the module already working great, this would be awesome to just be able to download and run a standalone version to use it directly.

[nikitalita]

There is a standalone program, it's not in the releases yet but it can be found in the build artifacts: https://github.com/bruvzg/gdsdecomp/actions/runs/1672274116#artifacts

[CypElf]

Update : if a standalone version of the program is available in the build artifacts, could you maybe say it somewhere (ideally in the README under the installation section) so people can just grab it from there instead of being forced to try to recompile the engine, since it's not the only way?

[nikitalita]

Remind me again this weekend, I'll tag a release along with updated documentation

[CypElf]

Thanks 👍

[CypElf]

Still waiting for the release 🙏

[nikitalita]

Still waiting for the release 🙏

Need to fix a few outstanding issues before this, will release soon

[nikitalita]

@CypElf I want to put the Full project export into the gui before release, but I don't want to do it.

So, please do it for me.

Thanks, Your Pal, Nikita

[CypElf]

I'm not sure what you're meaning here

[sairam4123]

@CypElf I want to put the Full project export into the gui before release, but I don't want to do it.

So, please do it for me.

Thanks, Your Pal, Nikita

Guess I'll do it.

[CypElf]

Also, could you update the installation section of the README to say that a standalone version is available in the releases?

[Kein]

Can I get some thing cleared up from the README? A quote:

To perform full project recovery from the command line: gdre_tools --extract game.pck --output-dir game-extract/ Use the same Godot tools version that the original game was compiled in to edit the project. In order to detect this, see To detect Godot version

Do I understand correctly that the project recovery dump only available in as-a-module version? Because outputted pack has nothing in common with Godot 3.x project structure and type. The game in question using Godot 3.4.4

[CypElf]

up

[nikitalita]

New release is up: https://github.com/bruvzg/gdsdecomp/releases/tag/v0.0.8

I wanted to put full project recovery in the GUI to head off support requests, but I see that it's just confusing people now, so I decided to release it without doing that yet.

@Kein Please use the new standalone release, that should solve your problem.

[Kein]

Please use the new standalone release, that should solve your problem.

it does not hence why I ask the question - how can I compile it as a module for 3.4.4? Simple extraction of pack isnt "full project restoration" and I'm looking exactly for the latter as readme states. Project file for example not parsed, it is unuseable binary

[CypElf]

Also, could you update the installation section of the README to say that a standalone version is available in the releases?

Opening a new issue about that to keep it separated from this one.

[nikitalita]

Please use the new standalone release, that should solve your problem.

it does not hence why I ask the question - how can I compile it as a module for 3.4.4? Simple extraction of pack isnt "full project restoration" and I'm looking exactly for the latter as readme states. Project file for example not parsed, it is unuseable binary

You can’t. 3.x branch is deprecated.

[Kein]

Okay, may be I'm missing something here so please do fill me in: what is the grand idea deprecating actively used LTS engine version? May be I'm misunderstanding main point of project - isnt it to help decompile, unpack and mod games? Majority of Godot games I've encountered use 3.x, because it is LTS, as I said, so what is the logical, pragmatical reason to so quickly and hastily deprecate it? I've never ever seen any existing Godot4 games outside of some etch demo or random conepts on itch.io nobody cares about.

[CypElf]

This isn't the purpose of this issue, please open another one for this

[nikitalita]

The master version decompiles 2.x-4.x projects, read the Readme.