(PS3) Killzone 2 Models/Textures (Early Decima Engine) Help Wanted

[DreamingOxxy]

With the Killzone crossover with Helldivers 2 being brought back, it reminded me of how I wanted to get the Killzone 2 (and maybe 3) models, getting access into the files isn't hard, typical PS3 stuff.

One big PSARC file, and that's about it.

Extracting it leads to getting the .core files that seem to contain everything (to my knowledge at least the models, and likely the textures, but the file sizes are a bit small), which later versions of the engine (Horizon Zero Dawn, Death Stranding, Until Dawn) seem to still use, although they've been certainly upgraded since this game. 

id-daemon did a tool for the PS4 Killzone game, Shadow Fall, but unfortunately that tool, nor the one made for Until Dawn, work with this game. 
Biggest problem seems to be a lot of packages reference each other. 

I'm a huge fan of the Killzone designs, and it's pretty surprising to me that over all these years no one has really made a true extractor for the older games, I'd love to work with these models but all that's really out there right now is random posts online with unrigged models and no real sources of where they came from. Due to the fact its PS3, I can't use Ninja Ripper, at least not to my knowledge.

Hope I'm not annoying anyone with creating some topic every few weeks, but I figure if anywhere would be a good place to talk about this stuff, it'd be here. Archiving stuff is awesome, and being able to work with 3D assets is one of my favorite things, plus porting is my #1 hobby, I'm sure I'm not the only one out there who just enjoys exploring game assets.

(Sorry for the external link here, I was having upload issues, even when trying to upload in a few parts I had problems)
I'll provide a bunch of example files, of weapons, and characters, and the one and only reference I've found about this version for the model/texture formats from an oldish GitHub repo.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rbuBPevvYP-XwiSDZSuL17t2g70YX9K0/view?usp=sharing
https://github.com/headassbtw/Mantle

Edited 13 hours ago by DreamingOxxy
Adjusted some wording