Homeworld 2: UtilityBIG

.Big Utilities
Files extracted from ".big" archives (with one of the ".big" utilities listed, below) must first be converted into human-readable form (decompiled) before they can be edited using a text-editor. You can use Age2uN's Lua Decompiler

.Big Extractors:

SpookyRAT by Spooky.
- Download
- Discussion
HW2 Big Extractor by Delphy.
- Download [Dead Link. -Mikail, 01/29/06]
- Discussion
archive.exe by Relic Entertainment.
- RDN Tools
- Documentation for "archive.exe"
unfBig Big Extractor & Lua Decompiler by unfunf.
- Discussion
Bigar A .big tool for the Mac.
- Discussion

.Big Creators:

ModPackager by Relic Entertainment.
- RDN Tools
- ModPackager Tutorial by ÜberJumper and Mikail.

archive.exe by Relic Entertainment.
- RDN Tools
- Big File Creator Tutorial by jpaugh78. Describes how to create ".big" files using batch files.
- Documentation for "archive.exe"
Bigar A .big tool for the Mac.
- Discussion

Related Pages:

Or then you can get a .zipped archive with all those files extracted by someone else. At the time of writing this comment, no such archives are yet available for HW2 v1.1.

-- VarisWiki (2004-01-18 13:33:19)