Cracking Cinema4D plugins Question! - gfx elite forums

twobornot2bcreative · #1 (**permalink**) August 7, 2006, 14:03

I'm curious, I just got my hands on a recent res file for a great Cinema4D plugin. For those of you who have knowledge of cracking such things, is the res file enough to create a cracked version of the plugin? Or do you also need the cdl file that came with the plugin? Or is there more?

djdeluxe76 · #2 (**permalink**) August 7, 2006, 22:15

res file is not enough. this is only resources and the cdl part is the hardcoded C++ stuff.

twobornot2bcreative · #3 (**permalink**) August 8, 2006, 04:06

Darn. Thanks djdeluxe76. Is there an app that allows one to read cdl files? How can I get into this racket?

Lexviticus · #4 (**permalink**) August 8, 2006, 21:31

What specific plugin are you referring to?

twobornot2bcreative · #5 (**permalink**) August 9, 2006, 00:03

Renato Tarabella's Fast Fur 2.0. He's coming out with 2.1 in a bit though.
http://www.tarabella.it/C4D/FastFur2.0/FastFur2.html

djdeluxe76 · #6 (**permalink**) August 9, 2006, 05:58

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Originally Posted by twobornot2bcreative

Darn. Thanks djdeluxe76. Is there an app that allows one to read cdl files? How can I get into this racket?

I know of none, my guess is you'd have to reverse engineer it like with every compiled binary. dependency-walker like tools will not get you far here as they will only provide little insight into the routines that need to be found to remove protections. using a combo of disassembler (for step-into at the time you get asked for the serial or the cinema program halts because of invalid serial, or..., or... etc.) and hex editor is how it is done most of the time. you wont't get around learning ASM. And if an obfuscator is used on the intermediary code you will have to decrypt first.