.ff extension; weapon stats and images

[Neejoh]

I've been getting at it for a while now but I lack experience in this field. I know that sSince CoD4 the source files with the .ff extension have been changed. I've managed to open them with a hex-editor - but I don't really know what to do next

What I did is make a copy of one of the .ff files that are in installed in "Modern Warfare 2/zone/english" directory.
I opened this .ff file with HxD and deleted the first 21 bytes and then saved the file (it automatically made a backup of the file).
Then I opened Simplyzip > external progs > ZLIB (pack/unpack) > Selected the file and checked decompress. This saved a new decompressed file without any extension....
I can open this in HxD again to make some sense of it, but that's about it.

Are there ways to extract elements from this file? I'm looking for the original DDS files of the guns etc. Of course it wouldn't hurt to get the weapon stats showing too but that won't be easy as Den didn't get it to work either.

And as it says in the rules:
You are my bro, bro.

[Den]

The images are in the IWD files. We already have them.


Probably the largest issue with finding the weapon data in the fastfiles is that they don't have any extension/format - they're just a file of data lucky enough to be readable in notepad.

[Neejoh]

I meant the images from the actual menu itself. I see you have already extracted most of them (the one with the multiplayer maps included). As you didn't include the equipment (smoke, flash, etc) I thought I would do this myself. Didn't go as planned, haha

I'm still looking for a way so we will be able to open the .ff files after it has been converted to the no-extension file...

To explain a bit more, I'm the admin of www.modernwarfare247.com and I absolutely LOVE the way you put together the "technical" stats-sheet for CoD4.

I've got a weapons page up on my website (http://www.modernwarfare247.com/weapons/assault-rifles) and I would love to make these pages complete to share with the community but I first need some images and stats.

btw, added "You are my bro, bro." to the topic start Better late then never, right?

[edit]
I've checked and there is no way to open the no-extension file with the CoD4 Mod Tools > Asset Manager (associated with .gdt files). It's also no .csv file...

[edit2]
Okay so apparently we have to open the hex editor again and look for .gsc files. These can be exported to new files when you follow this turorial:
wiki.modsrepository.com/index.php/Call_of_Duty_4:_Partial_Fastfile_Decompile

But now I have trouble with some .ff files because they have different headers (not the 21 bytes), trying to figure out how to get them to work...