a4tech/ftools

FTools

This toolset useful for unpacking\repacking firmware part of the ford ipc which contain pictures resources.

The tools in this package:

• imgunpkr can be used to unpack\pack images and fonts from vbf.
• vbfeditor can be used to unpack\pack vbf files.
• imgparcer can be used to extract .zip archives with images and .ttf fonts from image section.
• eifviewer can turn a .eif image into a .bmp and back.

Linux scripts from tools dir:

• extract_images.sh
• pack.sh
• replace_img.sh

How to

imgunpkr

Extract images and fonts

imgunpkr -u -o ./dest_dir original_images.vbf Images will be extracted to:

• ./dest_dir/eif - EIF images resources represent in internal IPC format.
• ./dest_dir/bmp - Converted EIFs to bmp.

Fonts will be extracted to:

• ./dest_dir/ttf

And will be created ./dest_dir/export_list.csv which contain info about extracted resources.

Modify image

You could modify bmp images with usage eif converter

Pack images and fonts

imgunpkr -p -c export_list.csv -o ./dest_dir original_images.vbf
As a result ./dest_dir.patched.vbf will be created.

eifviewer

Convert bmp images to eif

./eifviewer -u ./_logo.eif -o ./out.bmp

Convert eif images to bmp

./eifviewer -p -d 16 ./edited.bmp -o ./out.eif

EIF images has differ color depth and could be:

• SUPERCOLOR - TrueColor(24bit) -d 32
• MULTICOLOR - 256 color with palette -d 16
• MONOCOLOR - 8bit color -d 8