pp2 cruft

To extract pp2 files

First of all, the editor/game must be running for this to work, ie click the launch button first, then navigate back to launcher window Console tab.

Then you need to load pp2util module:

require 'pp2util'

Then select files you want to extract:

pp2match 'mask'

Mask is a lua pattern matched against internal filelist composed of all pp2s currently loaded. All files in there are of format 'ppfilename.pp/somefileinpp.suffix', and perhaps texture/subfolder/.../something.bmp.

It's similiar to regexes, but wildcards are .*, not just *. Typically just knowing part of the filename will suffice, like so:

pp2match 'jg2p01_00_hexa_u.pp'

Will select all contents of pp file packed in pp2. You can narrow the selection to some particular contents, too:

pp2match 'jg2p01_00_hexa_u.pp/.*tga'

Will select only tgas in that file. If you're ok with what is selected, type:

pp2dump()

And it will save the files which were selected in last pp2match() command.