[ANDROID] Transformers Robots in Disguise .DAT tutorial for how to extract it in ModelResearcher

awhile back i asked for help on the texture format for the rid game

@DKDave quickly figured it out so credits to him and did figure out the format for the model which was part of the examples zip

he posted how and i made it into a template for modelresearcher

however

the template only worked on ironhide as other models had issues when i looked into how the template worked for ironhide i found out something

the model format has no header and is unique in a way that a template wouldnt work

and since i dont how to write a noesis script i am going to show you how to import the model in modelresearcher

the first 4 bytes are important very important

for the vertices

get the first 4 bytes which is in case for our example beeside is 41 0c 00 00 so set the offset by 0x4

and make sure the end block ends before the 2nd instance of the magic 4 bytes

and when you hit render you get the vertices

for the faces

in faces set type to short

start the offset at 00 00 02 00 it is usually the starting face offset and before it is 4 bytes which end with a single 00

and end the end block before the final 4 bytes which are usually 00 00 00 00

for the uvs get the byte that is after the 3rd instance of the magic 4 bytes and use the same count as the vertices which the end block ends at the start of the 00 00 00 00 that is before the 4th instance of the magic 4 bytes

optional but for normals from @DKDave 's research

same count as the vertices and uvs the offset is of course the byte after the 2nd instance of the magic 4 bytes

remember the uvs are upside down when exported

a way that i fixed it is insert a plane into the model and using the constrain image pixels fit S and Y and -1 and delete the plane

without custom normals

with custom normals

Edited 6 hours ago6 hr by wedjklwkerfjgfkewgfh43ertg