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zeddicus, posted Fri Dec 23, 2016 4:16 pm (19753)

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Hello ZenHax community,

I am looking to extract "The Walking Dead: A New Frontier" Meshes and Textures for further use in Blender, to port them to another Program, no need to rebuild them.
I have downloaded the standalone TTARCH extractor ttarchext, but once I double click the ttarchext.exe it opens a batch window that only flashes up
then closes. I believe I have seen a glimpse of the game keys / numbers, but I can not get it to pause to find out the game key for A New Frontier.
I am on Windows 10.

Now, another thing: If I understood the HowTo correctly, I need to make a .bat like in the Monkeyisland example, but with the game number
of the game I want to extract out of so the program can use the correct decryption key. Is that correct?

I might not be asking the right questions, I am but a layman, so please forgive me.
Help would be massively appreciated.

zeddicus

atom0s, posted Sat Dec 24, 2016 9:16 pm (19768)

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If you want to find the key information from the window that blinks, run it from a command prompt. The easiest way to do that is, open the folder its installed to and hold shift then right-click anywhere in the folder that is open area (not on a file.) Your right-click menu should have an extra option in it saying 'Open command window here'. Choose that, a command prompt will open.

From there, just type in the exe name and hit enter. It should print out the same info and stay in the console.

zeddicus, posted Mon Dec 26, 2016 5:00 pm (19783)

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Thanks for the answer.
I shift clicked in the ttarchext folder, ran command prompt:
"ttarchext.exe"

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I also tried
"ttarchext.exe
pause"

Both result in the same flashing command prompt window.

Thanks,
zeddicus

aluigi, posted Tue Dec 27, 2016 10:28 am (19790)

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Run the tool from the command-line because there are also other options and many modding tools run from cmd, so learn to use it

Open the command-line by selecting Start->Run and type cmd.

This is the prototype of syntax you have to use:
ttarchext.exe -m 61 c:\PATH\FILE.ttarch2 c:\OUTPUT_FOLDER

You don't have to type the last two arguments, just drag'n'drop the file (and then the empty output folder you created) on the black command-line.

More info about the command-line:
http://aluigi.altervista.org/about.htm#howuse

The Internet is full of plenty of information about cmd.exe and command-line, there is nothing really to learn, just some notions about the current directory, arguments and so on.

zeddicus, posted Tue Dec 27, 2016 4:41 pm (19803)

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I realize now how stupid my question must have sounded, sorry!
It worked perfectly! It is still extracting without errors since 10 minutes, which I am happy about.
Is there already a bms script available for Walking Dead Season 3 to get .dds from .d3dtx?
I do not know what to do about the d3dmesh since I only have the option to work in blender, for which i for the love of god could not
find importer scripts to handle d3dmesh/d3dtx, I've pretty much hit a brick wall already

aluigi, posted Wed Dec 28, 2016 9:21 am (19809)

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In the previous games the d3dtx were just dds so you got them easily with the -m option (that I suggested in my previous command-line syntax).
Instead I have noticed that the current games use headerless dds in the d3dtx files.
I suggest you to open a topic in the Graphics section uploading one of the d3dtx files you obtained.