YAPE: Cannot filter by Instances + IMG files cannot be viewed in editor

[Blayer98]

Hey, I’m having trouble finding a certain image in ui.package, which is supposed to be The Sims 2 logo on the neighbourhood selection screen. I noticed right away that I can only filter by file type and that’s it…

Looking in EP9/UI/ui.package shows that the title screen sims 2 logo is there but I cannot find the neighbourhood selection logo, and I also cannot search by instance since there isn’t an option to, which makes finding said resource more difficult than it should be, and onto my next point…

IMG files cannot be previewed in the YAPE program. Instead a hex editor will display, meaning that to view any images with the “IMG” tag, you’ll need to export them in order to see what they look like. This isn’t needed with SimPE, where you can preview them without needing to export them first.

I really appreciate this program however as it’s pretty much the only way to view and edit package files on Linux/Steam Deck without needing to install SimPE and a bunch of dependencies! :)

[chieltbest]

Filtering/sorting on group and instance is something I definitely want to support in the future, but at the moment that's blocked by the API redesign that I want to do for the core library.

I'll have a look if I can implement an IMG viewer, in theory it shouldn't have any resource dependencies unlike a lot of the other resources I want to make editors for, so I'll give it a shot and see if I run into anything.

Thanks for the appreciation, it's always nice to hear it's being put to good use. :)

[Blayer98]

Filtering/sorting on group and instance is something I definitely want to support in the future, but at the moment that's blocked by the API redesign that I want to do for the core library.

I'll have a look if I can implement an IMG viewer, in theory it shouldn't have any resource dependencies unlike a lot of the other resources I want to make editors for, so I'll give it a shot and see if I run into anything.

Thanks for the appreciation, it's always nice to hear it's being put to good use. :)

Hey! Thanks looking at my feedback! I also noticed I can’t replace IMG files like I can with SimPE. For instance I had a png image that was smaller than the one I wanted to replace, and while SimPE was able to do so, this editor isn’t currently able to. The only other way without SimPE is to hex edit, and even then I’m pretty sure you’d have to look into the DBPF file format to hex edit the package file.