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I'm still looking into the bones, trying to get them working correctly. The ones that don't work correctly yet are the models with over 256 bones, such as the one below. The vertex data only uses bytes for the indices, so it has to remap the bones into smaller groups of 0-255. They could have just used Shorts for the indices and it would have been no problem. Had a bit of success with some bones being remapped correctly, but others still not. It seems like some bones maybe aren't needed, or are used for something else. This is pl036 with some bones being moved correctly.

I'm going to do tools for it, and release it here on reshax. I plan to support characters and maps, like it was before with FF7 remake.

First release:

Good news. Issues with missing objects and incorrect normals were fixed. Now tool is really close to release.

Did some first tests.

I'm working on a set of tools for Dragon Age Veilguard. So far, i have dump tool to extract all files, all models can be converted. Also i have fixed the usual frostbite distorted faces. Now checking if something needs to be done with unified skeleton or textures, and then tools will be published here.

From further investigation, it seems that some meshes use up to 8 bone weights/indices, where others only use 4. It also looks like they're split into 2 groups of 4 in the vertex data - i.e 4 weights/4 indices/2nd set of 4 weights/2nd set of 4 indices. So I'll need to redo the way bones are processed to see if that fixes it.

I'm looking at the textures/materials now, trying to allocate them properly. Just a few tests so far:

Its getting there, I have more objects placed now. But still not all.

Adding materials... thats probably last thing its missing before release

Things are getting better. Almost everything is in place now.

I made an importer that import every tmd2 model correctly. it can read models with more than 255 bones, all uv layers, all vertex color layers, tangents, binormals, both sets of normals, etc... https://www.nexusmods.com/bleachrebirthofsouls/mods/63

Okay, here's a little bit of an update. I've added support for all the vertex types, and the textures should all load correctly now. I've also included the extra UVs where available, although they're not presently used. The bones are still messed up in a lot of cases, so that still needs some work. The materials also need more work. I've disabled the vertex colours for now as that was messing up a lot of the meshes as well. bleach_rebirth_tmd2.zip

Tool released. Its an early version (as usual), but already makes very good results.

Tool v1.2 posted. Work is not finished, i'm looking into getting custom characters now. Also maybe i can get real hairs later. Textures not supported yet, but they can be extracted with tools for other frostbite games.

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I'm working on a tool to modify existing models or import custom models into Horizon Forbidden West. So far my first test is to fix Aloy's face. I tried a few options, and now I'm sure it will work and looks good, and probably a few mods will be already released soon. Then after import tool is ready, it will be release here on reshax. Here are some example screens. First i reduced her cheeks to 70%, to be sure i can see difference. Since only face shape is changed, you can see the old "fat" shape of peachfuzz (which is not scaled down yet). And then i did 90%

I'm going to update my PS4 tool for this game to support PC remaster. Maybe it will only be some small change.

please update the script ! if you would be so kind.

Currently testing map objects placing. Not ready yet, but hopefully soon.

Got staticmeshes working, now time to place them on a map.

Due to a user's request I upload the script of Mariusz Szkaradek here (because I didn't find the link any more). All kudos go to Mariusz. Important! For Windows 7 and higher it's required to copy the newGameLib folder into the blender 2.49b root directory. And no, it doesn't work with newer blender versions. Blender249[WatchDogs][PC][xbg][2014-10-25].zip

ImageHeat Download --> https://github.com/bartlomiejduda/ImageHeat

sorry for the radio silence; when Lake House fully arrives along with the QOL update tomorrow i'll make an update to the script (eta tbd) that'll have updated offsets for hopefully all previously supported models (and new ones if applicable).

Looking to see if anyone is interested in this, 3D models/geometry isn't exactly my strongest skillset (which I'm sure you will soon notice). I was originally inspired by an old thread on Xentax for other Rareware games (primarily Grabbed by the Ghoulies) however Live and Reloaded seemed to get skipped over since no one could figure out the compression the game was using. Fast forward a few years and i learned that Xemu had a debugging feature with support for IDA which is a tool I'm fairly familiar with, using this i was able to extract the x86 assembly instructions the game uses to decompress the game assets and write a wrapper for it allowing me to unpack the files to a state similar to what's used in other Rareware titles. You can check out that tool here: https://github.com/birdytsc/clr_unpack I'm currently in the process of reversing the games model format but my limited experience with 3d models/formats is hindering my progress. While some of the data is pretty straightforward to obtain some are packed away in pushbuffer instructions, one example is the tri's/faces data: This makes it a little more annoying to tell what set of vertexes they belong to but they are (so far) stored in order that you will find any vertex data one problem i am having is im not sure whether im extracting the data properly, example: the first part for conkers main model is broken into 3 sets of triangles all sharing a single set of vertexes, uv's etc. the model only looks correct if i separate the 3 sets of tri's into there own mesh, keeping them together creates artifacts: Another issue im having is Texture alignment, the game stores the textures as raw DXT data (usually DXT1 or DXT5) even in simpler models that only consist of a single set of triangles im still having alignment issues, for example: Perhaps this is a sign that there is indeed an issue with how im extracting the Tri's? If anyone wants to play around with this stuff ive included some files in the zip: aid_bfdmodel_characters_conker.py - a script for ModelResearcherPro that will load the verts/tris for the main conker model retail_aid_zpackage_general_singleplayer.rbm.listfile.csv - list of file names (if they havnt been stripped from the asset packer) and offsets retail_aid_zpackage_general_singleplayer.rbm.unpacked - just the decompressed version of the file found in the retail game retail_aid_zpackage_general_singleplayer.rbm.unpacked.mapped - same file as above but after its had a bunch of pointers mapped, useful for diffing against the original to find pointers. retail_aid_zpackage_general_singleplayer.rbm.unpacked.mapped.hexpat - imhex pattern file for the previous file. conker_stuff.zip

I forgot all about this thread, I have skin weights imported, and level support

Hi, it was brought to my attention that the Beta xbox version has additional outfits that the PC version does not have. The models are in a different format, namely .xgg - Which is slightly similar to the pc version. The ps2 version is also in a different format .pgg - However I won't be looking at this at the moment. I created a script for the character models, it probably won't work for terrain or objects. At this stage I am not going to expand on it further or create a new thread as it is the same game. XGG_convert.py

Mod released: https://www.nexusmods.com/horizonforbiddenwest/mods/113

Yes, but it's still in progress, not ready to upload it yet while I iron out a few issues.

Here's an initial Noesis script for the TMD2 mesh files. I've probably made some assumptions with the format, so I don't know if it'll work for other tmd2 files that I don't have samples for. It doesn't load the textures/materials as yet, mainly because I'm not 100% sure on how they're referenced, but it will do vertex colours and the bones should also work. bleach_rebirth_tmd2.zip

Yeah, original scripts don't seem to account for all of the different vertex formats, so a lot of meshes won't work. I can get the skeleton working by doing some manual extracting of the data. I'm not sure if the original script author(s) will update theirs. If not, I may do an updated one at some point.

Tools for Spider-Man 2 PC port will be released here. Right now main priority is model export/import. Usage will be very similar to Spider-Man 1 import tool. Tool already works, but has some restrictions. And these restrictions are different from SM1. For example, there is no more limit for number of bones, which means any model can be imported, including any head model, or spiderman mask. Another example is that lookgroups now have more complex layout, which is not supported yet. Second UV channel not supported now, but will be added soon.

Lot of great work being done in this thread, I've done a Lot of IDV extracting with the old QuickBMS scripts initially shared around on Xentax, and thankfully was able to back up all the files from before the new engine update, and have been extracting from those. But there's quite a lot of skins I'd like to extract to use in animations, and the old script doesn't work obviously. Thanks to everyone for their hard work in here. I've not seen the NeoXtractor before, but it seems really good, and hella helpful! Thank you for sharing it! I'm hoping to see more updates to NeoXtractor though, as it seems a lot easier and better to use just one app, to view the .npk, rather than having to decompile the entire thing, and then blindly browsing via RMA, which is what I have been doing this entire time. (I don't know how most people here get their textures, but I just use Ninjaripper 2 to extract them from the game whenever I find a model to use, as the textures are All over the place when extracted from the .npks..) Also, TeaEffTeu I've seen you around a few times and matched with you a few times recently on tha NA server! I always thought your name was fun, but I had no idea you were up to all this in the IDV community. Thanks for contributing to this, it's a huge thing for me, as someone who is a 3D animator and artist, being able to extract the models to use in Blender and such is not only fun, but just really cool. Thanks for contributing to that! Small world lol I remember altering my old BMS script in the past to kinda work when they made the new-ish .npk format after Fools Gold came out, but a better edit came along from someone else soon after. I'll make sure to share any helpful info I can involving the BMS scripts, or just the file formats in general. Thanks once again to everyone helping with this process! ^^

Thank @Franco for help me test importing text into gameresources_patch1_pc2.resources. It will be completed at least by next week or later.

My job is not to do YOUR work. My comment is for other people so they don't have the hope for something that not exist

accumulate rotations

The tool is now available. Download: https://github.com/Wildenhaus/IndexV2/releases How to use:

i received a few donations and decided to make a bit more progress. i hate the way saber does things so much model download (still a bit iffy)

No updated as yet. Haven't looked at it for a few days, but I'll have another look at it soon and upload an updated script.

Still working on materials. Diffuse/Normal maps look ok. But still quite a way to go.