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This fixes the problem with it using , as the decimal point marker if you're in a country which doesn't use . for the decimal point. Now everyone should be able to decompile LOL files without it breaking the whole script because of misplaced commas.
Previous update 8th April 2014
Spoiler:
LOL Decoder v1.45
Small update to LOL Decoder, fixing the problem with new lines being incompatible with notepad and a performance issue which was making large LOL files take bloody ages to decompile (thanks Errol for tracking that down!)
After decoding the .lol and editing (Notepad ++ is my preference), can it just be put back in the .ZAD or does it need to be re-encoded somehow? Just thought I'd ask before I do something silly that requires a reinstall....
You don't need to recompile it, but you shouldn't alter the original ZAD files. Instead you should create a new ZAD file to put your modified files in. The game loads ZAD files alphabetically so if you make a ZAD called something like zmod_MyScripts.zad to put your modified scripts in, the game will load those scripts instead of the original ones in Scripts.zad.
You don't have to pack files up to test your modes though. If you have extracted all the data with ZADFucker then if you rename the ZAD folder (e.g. to ZAD_backup) the game will use the extracted data instead.
Just tried using it today because I am "unzipping" everything to get a look at the files structure etc.
Dragging and dropping showed it worked in the DOS screen but no TXT files showed up in the folders.
Tried in command line to and the DOS window said it decoded it to TXT and nothing happened. Even was running a file change program under the directories and nothing at all changed or was added.
I was running the precompiled executable.
Tried it on vehicle_setup and Annihilator_layout.lol for the Annihilator and it said expects byte 6 to be 95 or 0.
same folder setup.lol and vfx_anchors.lol it said 1 decoded but nothing found.
The tool doesn't make a text file, it replaces the compiled script you dropped onto LOLDecoder with the decompiled script which you can edit in a text editor. That way you don't need to bugger around renaming or moving files around, you just run the script through LOLDecoder from it's place in the unzadded file structure and the game will load the decompiled script with no fuss.
I saw the words "As if by magic they will all be converted to text!" so I assumed TXT files. I am so screwy sometimes I didnt even think of just opening them in notepad.
I just saw your post and tested two of them of course it worked perfectly.
