Northlight Tools

Collection of various tools for Northlight Engine used for Polish fan translation of Quantum Break!

Northlight Tools

Collection of various tools for Northlight Engine used for Polish fan translation of Quantum Break!

Usage
Credits

Usage

You can append

--help

to each command to see more detailed usage!

RMDP Archive Tools

Unpack
ep999-000-en.rmdp
archive (to the same folder as archive):

northlighttools rmdp unpack path/to/ep999-000-en.rmdp

Unpack
ep999-000-en.emdp
archive to
output
folder:

northlighttools rmdp unpack path/to/ep999-000-en.rmdp output

Pack folder back to
ep999-000-en.rmdp
file

northlighttools rmdp pack path/to/input/folder ep999-000-en.rmdp

Pack command also supports following optional parameters:

--archive-endianness

with possible values being either

little

big

, this will force archive to specific endianness

--archive-version

with possible values being

, this will force archive to be in specific version

Version	Compatible with game
2	Alan Wake
7	Alan Wake: American Nightmare
8	Quantum Break
9	Control

BINFNT Tools

Decompile
customer_facing.binfnt
to
output
folder

northlighttools binfnt decompile customer_facing.binfnt output

Decompile
customer_facing.binfnt
to
output
folder with character textures seperated

northlighttools binfnt decompile customer_facing.binfnt output --seperate-char-bitmap

Compile
customer_facing.fnt
using
customer_facing_orig.binfnt
as reference to
customer_facing_new.binfnt

northlighttools binfnt compile d:\Mods\QuantumBreakPL\d_\data\fonts\locale\en\customer_facing.binfnt D:\Fonts\QuantumBreak\customer_facing\customer_facing.fnt test.binfnt

String Table Tools

Supported input/output file formats

XML (default)
JSON
CSV
PO

Export
string_table.bin
to XML

northlighttools string_table export string_table.bin

Export
string_table.bin
to PO

northlighttools string_table export string_table.bin --output-type po

Import
string_table.csv
to
string_table.bin

northlighttools string_table import string_table.csv string_table.bin

Import tool can take optional

--missing-strings

parameter which will change behaviour for strings that doesn't have translation (...yet)

Note: Missing strings handling are only available if importing from either CSV or PO!

--missing-strings	Description	Example Entry
key+original	Use the key and the original string as the localized string. This is the default.	(example_key) Example Value
key	Use the key as the localized string.	example_key
original	Use only original string as the localized string.	Example Value
empty	Use an empty string as the localized string.
remove	Remove the key from the localization file.	N/A
error	Raise an error when a localized string is missing.	N/A

Credits

GrzybDev

Thanks to:

Nostritius who created AWTools which helped with understanding rmdp and string table formats
eprilx who created NorthlightFontMaker which helped with understanding binfnt format!

Special thanks to:

Remedy Entertainment (for making Northlight Engine)