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Zonetool Basics

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This documentation has not been completely finished. Parts of this process are not well documented and you may run into issues. For further help, you can join our Discord and talk to modders in the community.

What is x64-zt?

x64-zt is a tool for reading and writing fastfiles and their assets for the next-generation classic Call of Duty games. You can download the tool here.

This tool is mainly for newer Call of Duty games like Ghosts, Advanced Warfare, Modern Warfare, Infinite Warfare, and Modern Warfare 2: Campaign Remastered. The codenames for each game represent the company who developed it, and what iteration of game it is. So Ghosts is IW6, IW's 6th game, while S1 (AW) and H1 (MWR) are Slegehammer & Halfmoon's first games. Anything listed in the conversion support table below is what is supported.

Game conversion support

IW6S1H1H2IW7
IW6✔️❌⚠️⚠️❌
S1❌✔️✔️✔️❌
H1❌⚠️✔️✔️❌
H2❌❌✔️✔️❌
IW7❌❌❌❌✔️

Commands

  • loadzone <zone>: Loads a zone
  • unloadzones: Unloads zones
  • verifyzones <zone>: Lists assets in a zone
  • dumpzone <zone>: Dumps a zone
  • dumpzone <target game> <zone> <asset filter>: Dumps a zone converting assets for a specific game
  • dumpasset <type> <name>: Dumps a single assset
  • dumpmap <map>: Dumps all required assets for a map
  • dumpmap <target game> <map> <asset filter> <skip common>: Dumps and converts all required assets for a map

Definitions

  • asset filter: A filter specifying all the asset types that should be dumped, if not specified or empty it will dump all asset types.
    Asset types are separated by commas. Using _ indicates a empty filter.
    Examples:
    • dumpzone h1 mp_clowntown3 sound,material,techset,rawfile
    • dumpmap h1 mp_clowntown3 _ true
  • skip common: Skips common zones when dumping a map, can be true or false. Useful if you already converted source game common files for target game in zonetool_paths.
  • target game: The game to convert the assets to.

Asset listings

An asset listing is a dump of the fastfiles' CSVs, which contains data about what assets it contains. This is used to primarily locate specific assets you want, or to find data about a techset so you can dump the zone. The name of a .zone file will correlate to a real .ff fastfile you have in your game files.

You can download any .zip file you need to browse the zone files. You need a .zip extractor, like 7-Zip or Winrar, to extract the zip to disk as a folder. You can also use VSCode to search through all of the files in the folder at once.

Porting maps from old-gen to next-gen

You can learn how to port maps from older games into the next-generation games in this guide here.

Porting maps between next-gen

You can learn how to port maps between the next-generation games in this guide here.

Porting completely custom assets

You can create entirely new assets for Call of Duty and port them into any game you want, including next-gen games, by simply using the official CoD4 Mod Tools to build your own CoD4 fastfile. Once you build that fastfile, you can dump it using the x64 branch of zonetool provided above, and port it to a next-gen game. We won't give much help on this as it has been documented on YouTube and other websites since 2008.