It's a tool that allows you to see the user crests that are downloaded by the game and cached locally, as well as save them for reuse.
The game downloads every crest it encounters in a specific radius inside files in the C:\ArcheAge\Documents\USER\UCC\down, which are of a format specific to the game. It stores them as binary blobs inside .sst files in the aforementioned folder, multiple crests per file. That binary blob so happens to be a DDS file which is a standard texture container format for DirectX. This tool simply opens each .sst file, and scans its entirety for DDS header signatures (the byte sequence 44 44 53 20 7C 00 00 00), and when it finds one, tries to load it using D3DX.
Head to the releases page and grab the latest EXE.
To build the source, you will need:
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2012
- Microsoft DirectX SDK (June 2010) (for
d3dx9.handd3dx9.lib)
Make sure the DXSDK_DIR environment variable is properly set.
Start the program, preferably with the game not running so that it does not interfere with it. It will show every crest it can find. You can double-click one to pop up a Save dialog, or you can drag-and-drop them into an Explorer window.
- Windows Vista+ 64-bit (no XP support)
- A lot of RAM (about 320k per loaded crest, I had ~400-500MB usage when testing with about 1400 crests)