Physis

Framework for interacting with FFXIV data, and successor to libxiv. This intended for developers writing modding tools, launchers and other programs.

Goals

• Make it extremely easy for people to tinker around with game data.
• Parsing data should be safe, and unit tested vigorously.
• Minimal dependencies ;-) All dependencies are also checked by cargo deny.

Features

• Easily extract game data from SqPack files.
• Apply game and boot updates, enabling custom launchers to patch the game easily.
• Blockfish ciphers for encrypting and decrypting SqexArg.
• Parse various game formats:
  • SqPack index and dat files
  • ZiPatch files
  • All three Excel data types (EXD, EXH, EXL)
  • Models
  • Havok Packfile/TexTool skeletons
  • Textures
  • Materials

Usage

Note: The API will not be stable until 1.0.

If you intend to use this in a Rust project, you can simply include this crate directly. You can view the documentation at docs.xiv.zone!

For other use in languages I maintain libphysis, which is a C wrapper around the same functionality. This isn't for show, I actually use these bindings in other projects.

Development

If you're interested to see how these formats work in more detail, see xiv.dev and docs.xiv.zone! They explain the file formats in more detail, but I also encourage reading the library code as well if you can.

Some tests and benchmarks require the environment variable FFXIV_GAME_DIR to be set. By default, these are disabled since they require a legitimate copy of the retail game data. These tests can be turned on via the retail_game_testing feature.

Contributing & Support

The best way you can help is by monetarily supporting me or by submitting patches to help fix bugs or add functionality!