decompressing packets ( quake 3 )

ouned · **Joined:** 27 Jul 2008 09:23 **Posts:** 13

Hi luigi

Do you know howto decompress the packets sent by a quake 3 client?
I tryed q3huffdecenc but the result is still ugly.

I want it in clear text :D

aluigi · **Posted:** 17 Mar 2009 16:59

q3huffdecenc works only with the connect packet which is simply compressed with huffman.
the in-game packets instead use huffman plus a specific type of encryption based on the previously sent/received client/server commands (CL_Netchan_Decode) which is more boring to handle

ouned · **Joined:** 27 Jul 2008 09:23 **Posts:** 13

you mean it iseasyer to decode ingamemessages than a connect package?

aluigi · **Posted:** 17 Mar 2009 19:27

the opposite

ouned · **Joined:** 27 Jul 2008 09:23 **Posts:** 13

eh and you never did that before?

than i will never get that working

aluigi · **Posted:** 17 Mar 2009 20:20

I spent some hours on this some months ago but without a good result easy to implement in a small tool so I gave up due to the lack of real interest and for the fact that (if I'm not in error) some games have small differences in the reading of the data so, for example, Q3 and ET and elite force could be not compatible between them

Luigi Auriemma

decompressing packets ( quake 3 )