Coh Tools

Command-line tools to read City of Heroes PIGG files.

Requirements: Python 2.x, Python 3.x along with the zlib module.

readpigg

To list the contents of a .pigg file:

python readpigg.py -l file.pigg

To unpack a single file:

python readpigg.py file.pigg file

To unpack all files:

python readpigg.py file.pigg

The tool will reproduce the original directory structure, creating directories as needed, then placing the unpacked files in the proper subdirectory.

readtexture

Note: Updated for Python 3.x

To convert a .texture file, you can use:

python readtexture.py file.texture

The tool will recover the original .dds file. You can then convert the .dds file to a standard format using any DDS converter (e.g., Nvidia's). If you want a command-line tool (e.g., if you want to convert in bulk), you can use ImageMagick, for example.

readbin

NOTE: listing items and parsing single items currently does not work for all .bin files. For such files, your only option is to parse the whole file.

To list the contents of a .bin file:

python readbin.py -l file.bin

To parse a single item in a .bin file:

python readbin.py file.bin item

To parse the whole .bin file:

python readbin.py

If you want the output sent to a text file, you can do:

python readbin.py > outfile.txt