FTools

This toolset useful for unpacking\repacking firmware part of the ford ipc which contain pictures resources.

The tools in this package:

• imgunpkr can be used to unpack\pack images and fonts from vbf.
• vbfeditor can be used to unpack\pack vbf files.
• imgparcer can be used to extract .zip archives with images and .ttf fonts from image section.
• eifconverter can turn a .eif image into a .bmp and back.
• textparser can be used to extract IPC fw text lines to CSV format and pack them back.

README russian version

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imgunpkr

Extract images and fonts

imgunpkr -u -o ./dest_dir original.vbf

Images will be extracted to:

• ./dest_dir/eif - EIF images resources represent in internal IPC format.
• ./dest_dir/bmp - Converted EIFs to bmp.

Fonts will be extracted to:

• ./dest_dir/ttf

Info files:

• ./dest_dir/export_list.csv which contain info about extracted resources (basically you don't need to edit this file).
• ./dest_dir/header_lines.csv which describe properties of the UI elements (size, color, position)

More about header_lines.csv

And will be created ./dest_dir/custom folder.

Modify resources

To change images or fonts, place the modified .bmp or .ttf to a ./dest_dir/custom folder.
Files must have the same names as the extracted resources.

Pack images and fonts

imgunpkr -p -c export_list.csv -v original.vbf -o ./dest_dir

As a result ./dest_dir/patched.vbf will be created.

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eifconverter

Convert eif images to bmp

./eifconverter -u ./logo.eif -o ./out.bmp

Convert bmp images to eif

./eifconverter -p -d 16 ./edited.bmp -o ./out.eif

EIF images has differ color depth and could be:

• SUPERCOLOR - TrueColor(24bit) -d 32
• MULTICOLOR - 256 color with palette -d 16
• MONOCOLOR - 8bit color -d 8

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vbfeditor

Unpack vbf (extract binary sections)

vbfeditor -u path_to.vbf -o dir/to/extract

Pack vbf

vbfeditor -p vbf_conifg -o out/dir

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textparser (alfa)

Extract text resources to .csv files

textparser -u path/to/vbf_text_section.bin -o dir/to/extract

Modify resources

After extracting you will get two files ui_alerts.csv and ui_texts.csv
Modify strings of line_content as you wish

Pack text section

textparser -p path/to/vbf_text_section.bin -o path/to/patched_vbf_text_section.bin

modified .csv files must be in the same directory as the original vbf_text_section.bin