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missingno74, posted Wed Jul 31, 2019 10:30 pm (50106)

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Hello there! Excuse me lingo and / or me being an idiot as this is my first time trying to do stuff with models.
I've gotten the models from a game called "Endless Ocean: Blue World", and I was trying to open them. However, every program that I've tried was not able to open them. Format is a .mdl.

Assasinge, posted Tue Nov 19, 2019 2:52 pm (52179)

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Decompile with crowbar or something? Is it source engine based of some sort?

zheneq, posted Thu Nov 21, 2019 10:49 pm (52216)

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I believe Source was never ported to Wii.

Show us some samples, mdl is quite a generic extension.

missingno74, posted Wed Feb 12, 2020 7:55 pm (53967)

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Hi, sorry for the late responses.

https://mega.nz/#F!uz4gHaoY!69pFYys7BEo13ToSkEbHIA -unbuilt model
https://mega.nz/#!6z5lmBwI!dGN6u5aMx1-I ... gNyNn1VY-I - built model

RF2MD3 is attached in front of every one of these, although I don't know what it means or what it could be.
Each .mdl has a .tdl and a .vdl file inside, if it has animations, it has a .mol.

DJ Normality, posted Thu Feb 13, 2020 3:11 am (53972)

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Are you trying to reverse the data or just get the models ? If so use Dolphin emulator to snap the geo with render doc.

coredevel, posted Sun Feb 23, 2020 3:21 pm (54190)

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missingno74 wrote:

Hello there! Excuse me lingo and / or me being an idiot as this is my first time trying to do stuff with models.
I've gotten the models from a game called "Endless Ocean: Blue World", and I was trying to open them. However, every program that I've tried was not able to open them. Format is a .mdl.

Game developer is Arika, from Japan. Game developers tend to write their own formats, so you should research the games that Arika has developed and see if anyone else has written tools for them. There is usually some common ground between all games a developer has written.