public static Level Load(Stream lvlStream, string fileName) { byte[] temp = new byte[8]; Level lvl = new Level(fileName, 0, 0, 0, "empty"); byte[] data; int length; try { lvlStream.Seek( -4, SeekOrigin.End ); lvlStream.Read( temp, 0, sizeof( int ) ); lvlStream.Seek( 0, SeekOrigin.Begin ); length = BitConverter.ToInt32( temp, 0 ); data = new byte[length]; using( GZipStream reader = new GZipStream( lvlStream, CompressionMode.Decompress, true ) ) { reader.Read( data, 0, length ); } for( int i = 0; i < length - 1; i++ ) { if( data[i] == 0xAC && data[i + 1] == 0xED ) { // bypassing the header crap int pointer = i + 6; Array.Copy( data, pointer, temp, 0, sizeof( short ) ); pointer += IPAddress.HostToNetworkOrder( BitConverter.ToInt16( temp, 0 ) ); pointer += 13; int headerEnd = 0; // find the end of serialization listing for( headerEnd = pointer; headerEnd < data.Length - 1; headerEnd++ ) { if( data[headerEnd] == 0x78 && data[headerEnd + 1] == 0x70 ) { headerEnd += 2; break; } } // start parsing serialization listing int offset = 0; while( pointer < headerEnd ) { if( data[pointer] == 'Z' ) offset++; else if( data[pointer] == 'I' || data[pointer] == 'F' ) offset += 4; else if( data[pointer] == 'J' ) offset += 8; pointer += 1; Array.Copy( data, pointer, temp, 0, sizeof( short ) ); short skip = IPAddress.HostToNetworkOrder( BitConverter.ToInt16( temp, 0 ) ); pointer += 2; // look for relevant variables Array.Copy( data, headerEnd + offset - 4, temp, 0, sizeof( int ) ); if( MemCmp( data, pointer, "width" ) ) { lvl.width = (ushort)IPAddress.HostToNetworkOrder( BitConverter.ToInt32( temp, 0 ) ); } else if( MemCmp( data, pointer, "depth" ) ) { lvl.depth = (ushort)IPAddress.HostToNetworkOrder( BitConverter.ToInt32( temp, 0 ) ); } else if( MemCmp( data, pointer, "height" ) ) { lvl.height = (ushort)IPAddress.HostToNetworkOrder( BitConverter.ToInt32( temp, 0 ) ); } pointer += skip; } lvl.spawnx = (ushort)(lvl.width / 1.3); lvl.spawny = (ushort)(lvl.depth / 1.3); lvl.spawnz = (ushort)(lvl.height / 1.3); // find the start of the block array bool foundBlockArray = false; offset = Array.IndexOf<byte>( data, 0x00, headerEnd ); while( offset != -1 && offset < data.Length - 2 ) { if( data[offset] == 0x00 && data[offset + 1] == 0x78 && data[offset + 2] == 0x70 ) { foundBlockArray = true; pointer = offset + 7; } offset = Array.IndexOf<byte>( data, 0x00, offset + 1 ); } // copy the block array... or fail if( foundBlockArray ) { lvl.CopyBlocks( data, pointer ); lvl.Save(true); } else { throw new Exception( "Could not locate block array." ); } break; } } } catch( Exception ex ) { Server.s.Log("Conversion failed"); Server.ErrorLog(ex); return null; } return lvl; }