sigmmma/librarian

Halo CE tag to YAML converter for better version control of mod projects

librarian's Issues

Deserialize a single tag from YAML

Building off of the work in #1, deserialize that same tag back from YAML and compare with the original to make sure it's identical.

Serialize / deserialize a tag with basic raw data

We want to separate raw data from the human-readable YAML fields. This task is to figure out how to do that. Suitable tag types for this may include sounds, string collections, or bitmaps. Bitmaps are probably the easiest place to start.

Serialize / deserialize a tag with tag data

Some tags have "tag data" in them, which is stuff that is technically human readable, but mostly meaningless. This shows up in the coordinates used for model, animation, and BSP information. This stuff should be pulled to its own file, but that file should be a different format than raw tag data.

Serialize a single tag to YAML

Pick a simple tag type and export it to YAML

There will be a lot of project setup stuff in this branch too.

Serialize 3 tag types to YAML

Pick 3 tag types to serialize to YAML. I don't care which ones are picked, but it'd be helpful if they were basic. Hopefully in doing 3 of these, we can identify some patterns for making this process a little more dynamic so we don't have to tediously add every current tag type or new tag type that may come along.

If we do identify a pattern, don't implement it in this task. Create a new task with your findings and we'll move from there.

Identify redundant / auto-calculated tag data

Many tags will have fields that aren't editable, or like some fields in physics tags are automatically generated on the saving of a tag. This essentially means the data isn't user editable, or like compressed vertices is just data that mirrors some other data in a worse way (uncompressed vertices). This data can be pruned and later regenerated.

At some point we should map out all this data and figure out how to handle it.