Description
This is a utility program to extract the game's XML files for use in creating mods. XML can be extracted from the installed game packages or a single combined tuning file. The program can also easily be used to extract a single binary tuning file from the game packages and convert that to a combined XML tuning file.
The program is designed to perform these functions quickly by only loading those parts of the game packages that are required for producing the XML and looking ahead to quickly build required lookup tables.
When extracting the XML in Full Automatic mode (the recommended and default mode) the game's strings and references to other XML resource names can be included in comments. This feature is not available when working with a single combined tuning file.
Also in Full Automatic, the program can optionally output two tab delimited text files with all strings and XML resource names. This file is suitable for opening in a spreadsheet package for easy searching.
Sims 4 Studio has had this functionality and more for quite awhile. If you're making a tuning mod you're better off using Studio.
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