Reverse engineering a custom model viewer for FINAL FANTASY XI

[Maphesdus]

I'm interested in reviving an old project that someone else started nearly a decade ago. It's an old MapViewer program for FINAL FANTASY XI written in 2016 by a talented FFXI player going by the username galkareeve, who appears to have abandoned his work. This program was written in C++ and uses the OpenGL graphics rendering framework. The following GitHub directory is galkareeve's original repository and contains multiple projects by him:

https://github.com/galkareeve/ffxi

And here I have re-uploaded a slightly modified version of his MapViewer project:

https://github.com/Maphesdus/FFXI_MapViewer

I had originally forked his repository, but when I tried to push anything to the repo, GitHub complained about large file sizes, and so I chose to re-upload just the MapViewer project by itself in order to reduce the file size. The only changes I've made (so far) are adding in some #DEFINE statements so that Visual Studio would stop complaining about experimental functions, as well as changing the FFXI installation directory to match the normal default directory (galkareeve had originally installed his instance of FFXI into a non-standard directory, which he then hardcoded into his project, and I fixed this in my forked copy of his code). So now I’m able to get his source code to compile and run, but it just displays a blank white window without loading or displaying any models.

If anyone here knows C++ and OpenGL and is interested in trying to reverse engineer galkareeve’s code in order to get his MapViewer project to function, feel free to comment below and let me know.

The variable for the FFXI installation directory is called "char ffxidir[512]" and is located in the FFXILandscapeMesh.cpp file, in case you need to change it in your own build.

Edited January 26 by Maphesdus

[TonyGarhager]

I am very familiar c++ and opengl. I am interested.

[Maphesdus]

On 1/30/2025 at 5:29 AM, TonyGarhager said:

I am very familiar c++ and opengl. I am interested.

Can you fork the code in the linked repository and get it to work?