resource

Reads one resource and answers what it holds: a GFF4 file (conversation, plot, model, …) or a GFF3 template (.utc, .uti, .utp) as JSON with its fields named, a data table as columns and rows, a talk table’s strings, a texture’s size and format, a text file (.mao, .xml, .nss) as text, anything else as its first bytes. Of several copies it reads the one the game takes, and says so with the others; source and archive name another. A copy in an enciphered add-in archive cannot be read here; the answer says so.

Read-only: it writes nothing.

Arguments

Name	Type	Required	What
name	string	yes	The resource, with its extension: “ogre_default.utc”.
depth	integer (≥ 1, ≤ 64)		How deep to follow nested structs and lists. Default 12.
items	integer (≥ 1)		The most elements of any one list (and rows of a table). Default 200.
chars	integer (≥ 100)		The most bytes of a text file. Default 20000.
source	string		Which copy, by its source as answers name it (“core”, “addin:dao_prc_cp_1”, “plugin:mymod”). Default: the copy the game takes.
archive	string		Which copy, by its archive’s path (or a loose file’s) as answers give it.

Call it as resource over MCP, or from a shell as ghilana.exe --call resource '<arguments as JSON>'.