Creature Conflict: The Clan Wars uncommon .LWO & .LWS models & animations

[SeriousNorbo]

Hello, I'm wondering if anyone could help in recovering models and character animations from a 2005 PC game Creature Conflict.
Assets were exported from main data pack using QuickBMS script from this topic: https://www.zenhax.com/viewtopic.php@t=3992.html


Some information i got about the models so far:

The .LWO is a mesh with or without rigging, while .LWS is a single animation.

These are not typical Lightwave files, they lack any headers. Rigged character meshes seem to have "_xsi" in the name which made me thought they may be Autodesk Softimage files, but i couldn't get them imported into Softimage as XSI or as Lightwave.

Using Model Researcher i was able to determine Vertex block starts at 0x120 in each .LWO file, but i wasn't succesfull at finding polygons or rigging.



I attached a few character and weapon models, along with animations for one of the characters and one weapon, plus exported textures for UV map research.

CreatureConflictModels.rar

[shak-otay]

Yeah, the DWord face indices totally don't fit but I have a déjà vue of this picture, maybe on former Xentax?

edit: correct vertex start is 0x144

 

Edited Monday at 04:32 PM by shak-otay

[SeriousNorbo]

Hmm... I never heard about this game being mentioned on Xentax or on any other reverse engineering forum (it's quite obscure game), aside from Zenhax topic I made years ago, i may be mistaken.

So is polygon data recoverable from those files? or did it got lost during decompilation with quickBMS? If it helps i can upload the original archive before decompilation
I see the edit now, so luckily no data got lost during conversion. Awesome!

Edited Monday at 05:15 PM by SeriousNorbo

[SeriousNorbo]

I was able to make some blender script that can import meshes, but i wasn't succesfull at getting UVs so far, i'm not sure where's the issue

[shak-otay]

My best bet:

edit: fail, at 0x1d934 there's only a copy of the mesh

Edited yesterday at 01:05 PM by shak-otay

[Karpati]

My first try on this .lwo format.

 

 

 

Edited yesterday at 11:24 AM by Karpati

[SeriousNorbo]

Yes! that's how the mesh was meant to look like! (eyes are missing since they're in separate files) Awesome results!

Now, can bone structure be recovered from those files? I didn't got that that part yet but i assume assets like "barrel.lwo" or "wpn_brd_biobazooka.lwo" will either have no bones, or a single bone in center to not be empty, they don't have moving parts in-game.
That guinea pig and wpn_brd_biostrike_saurus_xsi.lwo are fully animated in gameplay.