Deobfuscating World of Warships' Python Scripts

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• minimap_renderer

  2 74 6.7 Python

  Generates a video of your minimap.

  

The name `` is intentional here. Decompilers (or at least uncompyle) relies on the function name to figure out what composition syntax the function is for (or a lambda, or generator). The python compiler emits ``, ``, ``, ``, and `` depending on the type of function. The obfuscator renamed this function of course and causes the decompiler choke on a whole file if this appears at a module level.

The game developers also reached out to me and others after seeing this post appear on the /r/WorldofWarships subreddit. They want to understand why we would need to introspect these files for mod creation or data mining.

I already explained some of this in the post, but at a mod level the API docs are _really_ bad and actually no longer existent since the developers migrated away from a standard forum to Discord for all comms and killed the forum. For ModAPIv2 which is heavily restricted to pre-approved mod developers there are no docs at all!

Additionally, they rely on a community-created tool for rendering replays to an MP4 for their tournament match recaps: https://github.com/WoWs-Builder-Team/minimap_renderer. The replay format is entirely undocumented and relies on data mined from this tool and other resources for parsing some data structures.

There are a _ton_ of community-developed resources that have only been made possible through reverse engineering of some shape that are critical for understanding the game.

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• Rotp-Fusion

  24 19 9.7 Java

These are both great. The original RotP is no longer being actively developed, but there are a couple of forks on GitHub that stay in sync with one another and have continued building on the base.

https://github.com/BrokenRegistry/Rotp-Fusion

https://github.com/Xilmi/Rotp-Fusion

• Rotp-Fusion

  32 17 9.7 Java

These are both great. The original RotP is no longer being actively developed, but there are a couple of forks on GitHub that stay in sync with one another and have continued building on the base.

https://github.com/BrokenRegistry/Rotp-Fusion

https://github.com/Xilmi/Rotp-Fusion

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