Extraction encountered problems

[qiuzhigangya]

Extraction encountered problems, pmg, pmd, pmc, pma are all garbled，There are hundreds of files

[sk-zk]

There are a number of a mods where the paths of model files have been replaced with random junk like this:

/?<<_?_<>_>/?_<><?_/?*>/**<*>>_?>?<**<>/?>?<**.pmd

Notice that it consists almost entirely of ?, <, >, and *. Windows filenames cannot contain these characters, so the extractor will rename the files into something like this:

/x3Fx3Cx3C_x3F_x3Cx3E_x3E/x3F_x3Cx3Ex3Cx3F_/x3Fx2Ax3E/x2Ax2Ax3Cx2Ax3Ex3E_x3Fx3Ex3Fx3Cx2Ax2Ax3Cx3E/x3Fx3Ex3Fx3Cx2Ax2A.pmd

These are the "garbled" files you're seeing.

It is not possible to restore the original paths the modder was using before packing, but you can work with them as they are since the defs also reference these obfuscated paths. In many cases, it's even possible to mount the extracted mod in-game without issue.

[qiuzhigangya]

Okay, I understand now. Will this issue still be optimized, such as having the extractor randomly combine some seemingly normal words to rename the def path, file path, and try to make everything look less' garbled '

[Karek556]

Is it possible to do such a de-garbled when the files that have been treated with it are .dds and .tobj? When I checked .tobj using tobjedit, the last ending was able to be decrypted. Would it be possible to make something like an alphabet?