djaessel / openbrf-mbstudio

Linux Library port of OpenBRF by Marco Tarini

OpenBRF Library by Marco Tarini (edited by Johandros)

A modding tool used to view, edit and convert the proprietary Binary Resource files (BRFs) loaded by the popular «Mount&Blade» and «Mount&Blade: Warband» games.

This GitHub repo was last updated from the source code ZIP file at:

https://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php?topic=72279.0

and modified to compile under Linux. Then it was fixed again by Swyter on early 2023 to also work on Windows and compile out-of-the-box, when opening it with compatible Qt Creator version like the one below:

https://download.qt.io/archive/qt/5.12/5.12.12/qt-opensource-windows-x86-5.12.12.exe.mirrorlist (tip: get offline before launching the installer to avoid creating a Qt account)

This version includes both a pre-generated version of glew 2.2.0 (the latest one at the time of writing) and vcglib 1.0.1 (the last compatible one) as a git submodule (i.e. a linked sub-repository pointing to a particular version instead of copying all those files over).

So make sure you initialize all submodules when you clone/download it. Plus, downloading it as a .zip file from GitHub will cause the dependencies/vcglib folder to be empty, so keep that in mind.

You don't need anything else, other than the open-source Qt5 SDK, that is the huge UI framework/SDK and build system OpenBRF is made of.

License

This code and the original ZIP file are licensed under the GNU General Public License, according to the dicussion forum:

https://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php?topic=72279.0

Build instructions for Linux (edited):

# Now requires Qt5!
qmake -makefile openBrf.pro
make

# run it overriding the float dot notation so that it can load
# `carry_positions.txt` in other languages other than English
env LC_NUMERIC=C python testloadpy.py

Johandros/djaessel Notes

This is the standalone Linux version of openBrf (library), that I altered to use it with my tool MB-Studio.

https://github.com/djaessel/MB-Studio

So if you want to get the Windows version, just check out that repo.

The purpose of this library is, to have a 3D view to show certain characters, items and 3D models in general.

Usage

from openbrf import OpenBrf

openbrf = OpenBrf()
openbrf.setModPath(b"/home/djaessel/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/MountBlade Warband/Modules/Native/")
openbrf.selectItemMesh(b"club")
openbrf.closeApp()

With the above code you can start up the library, change the module path and show the "club" mesh.
And finally close the library again.

For more functions see the openbrf.py file.