UserTool - OpenSauce command line tool

[Skarma]

0041E0F9  LEA ECX,[LOCAL.70]
0041E0FD  PUSH ECX
0041E0FE  PUSH 20019
0041E103  PUSH 0
0041E105  PUSH OFFSET 004253A4                                  ; ASCII "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Halo HEK"
0041E10A  PUSH 80000002
0041E10F  CALL DWORD PTR DS:[<&ADVAPI32.RegOpenKeyExA>]

My registry path was default: "SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\Microsoft Games\\Halo HEK". I am running Windows 7. Regardless of where your Halo Custom Edition directory is installed or whether it's x86 or x64, the registry entry it opens may be incorrect. Since UserTool must be placed in the Halo CE directory anyway, may I suggest using GetCurrentDirectory or GetModuleFileName to obtain the path? Otherwise you may need to check multiple registry paths.

[CodeBrain]

0041E0F9  LEA ECX,[LOCAL.70]
0041E0FD  PUSH ECX
0041E0FE  PUSH 20019
0041E103  PUSH 0
0041E105  PUSH OFFSET 004253A4                                  ; ASCII "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Halo HEK"
0041E10A  PUSH 80000002
0041E10F  CALL DWORD PTR DS:[<&ADVAPI32.RegOpenKeyExA>]

My registry path was default: "SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\Microsoft Games\\Halo HEK". I am running Windows 7. Regardless of where your Halo Custom Edition directory is installed or whether it's x86 or x64, the registry entry it opens may be incorrect. Since UserTool must be placed in the Halo CE directory anyway, may I suggest using GetCurrentDirectory or GetModuleFileName to obtain the path? Otherwise you may need to check multiple registry paths.

This is actually quite simple to fix, however the fix I am about to give really only changes the registry usertool tries to find: the x32 Halo HEK registry, and instead makes it look for the x64 directory.

I was going to make a small tutorial on how to do this yourself, but because of how FireSythe has his project folders and directories set up (He has the directories/folders on another hard drive of some kind, I had to use my flash drive to make it look there. I even placed all the files exactly the way he had it, and Visual C++ still told me it couldnt find the files, even though it was sitting in front of it's stupid face.) I cannot accomplish that. I did however make a successful exe a while ago, and I have no idea what caused it to not work anymore.

Anyway, enough rambling, here is the exe I promised.

http://www.codebrainshideout.net/files/usertool_x64.exe

[FireScythe]

The odd thing is it was developed and tested on x64 since that's what I use. When I get the chance i'll change it to use the current working directory rather than the registry path.

[Siliconmaster]

Yeah, the usertool_x64.exe gets the same error for me, thanks though CodeBrain. Guess I'll have to wait for Firescythe's fix.

[Skarma]

Add some more error checking so the app can spit out the exact error codes from failed functions, might help work out the kinks

[CodeBrain]

Oh derp I forgot to give you guys the .reg file as well. <_>

http://codebrainshideout.net/files/Halo_HEK_x64.reg

If you install the Halo Editing Kit on a x64 bit machine, I think usertool tries to look in the x32 registry instead of the x64 registry. Therefore, the solution is to copy what the x64 registry for "Halo HEK" has and import it into the x32 bit. The file above is the solution. (I think)

[Siliconmaster]

Drat. Still gives that error. Does it work on your end?

And I'm testing it by typing in usertool_x64.exe, then seeing if it gives a list of commands, like tool does. Instead, it gives back that error. If I need to type an actual command, let me know. I couldn't figure out what exactly that command was, honestly.

[Skarma]

@Siliconmaster: Try this fix I cooked up, works great for me now. It uses a different method other than the registry to get your Halo CE working directories. Just don't forget to put it in your Halo CE folder before running it. You may need to run as admin, but it worked without that for me.

usertool with fixed paths problem:
http://www.mediafire.com/?9yjwp1i4vqqt3rc

Changed:

004376CF  LEA ECX,[ESP+14]
004376D3  PUSH ECX
004376D4  PUSH 20019
004376D9  PUSH EBX
004376DA  PUSH OFFSET 00449CD0                              ; ASCII "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Halo HEK"
004376DF  PUSH 80000002
004376E4  CALL DWORD PTR DS:[<&ADVAPI32.RegOpenKeyExA>]
004376EA  TEST EAX,EAX
004376EC  JNE 0043796B
004376F2  LEA EDX,[ESP+18]
004376F6  PUSH EDX
004376F7  MOV EDX,DWORD PTR SS:[ESP+18]
004376FB  LEA EAX,[ESP+78]
004376FF  PUSH EAX
00437700  LEA ECX,[ESP+24]
00437704  PUSH ECX
00437705  PUSH EBX
00437706  PUSH OFFSET 00449CFC                              ; ASCII "EXE Path"
0043770B  PUSH EDX
0043770C  MOV DWORD PTR SS:[ESP+34],1
00437714  MOV DWORD PTR SS:[ESP+30],104
0043771C  CALL DWORD PTR DS:[<&ADVAPI32.RegQueryValueExA>]
00437722  MOV EAX,DWORD PTR SS:[ESP+14]
00437726  PUSH EAX
00437727  CALL DWORD PTR DS:[<&ADVAPI32.RegCloseKey>]

To:

004376CF  PUSH EAX
004376D0  PUSH 104
004376D5  MOV ECX,DWORD PTR DS:[<&KERNEL32.GetCurrentDirectoryA>]
004376DB  CALL ECX
004376DD  TEST EAX,EAX
004376DF  JE 0043796B
004376E5  JMP SHORT 0043772D
004376E7  NOP
004376E8  NOP
004376E9  NOP
004376EA  NOP
004376EB  NOP
004376EC  NOP
004376ED  NOP
004376EE  NOP
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004376FB  NOP
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00437700  NOP
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00437709  NOP
0043770A  NOP
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00437710  NOP
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0043772A  NOP
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[CrAsHOvErRide]

and not only that, the app is also 20 bytes faster congratz

[Siliconmaster]

All right, Skarma fixed the issue for me, though he initially fixed the earlier version of usertool, not the most updated one. However, now the app itself is giving me crap lol. Max exports the 22 lightmaps as a single .obj file. But when the app tries to import the uvs, it says that the bsp has 295 objects. Wat. How do I fix this?