andree wrote:I've heard there was delguoqing the only user in VG Resource who could convert .DAT models into readable .OBJ files and managed to find the bones,

Any more infos about his results? (I really hate to redo things that other users did already.)

I'm just wondering, is it possible for you to add some code to the Make_obj-JX3.exe tool to make it so the output .obj file had the same name as the .mesh file? And if it's not too much trouble then maybe add batch feature to the tool too? Cuz this game had too many files yeah, I was thinking about...

I can post the file somewhere if anyone wants to examine it - why can't I get a working model? :( obj file https://ufile.io/nzx3w S yep, cgf urgently needed. btw: I used the converter (cool tool, btw) like such: D:\tmp\era>cgf-converter AEGS_Vanguard_Test.cgf -objectdir D:\tmp -obj Input file set t...

yeah, my bad, I thought the BBox auto calculation went wrong, but seems it doesn't

65535? depends on your divider when creating the mesh - I just need to divide 5376.0376 by 255.469 for the x-scaling for example.

well, seems to fit:

Thanks,but its probably gonna take one eternity to import all map models with hex2obj. You didn't get the idea - it's not intended to use hex2obj for such; it's just a helper tool to get a clues. To understand the format . After having created ONE submesh of the format you usually start to write a ...

Had you used the bounding box? nope, just a wild guess, because the BBox calculated from the unsigned vertex data in hex2obj doesn't match with the real values so far. Need to look what's going wrong there: # BBox 0.000000 255.468750, 0.000000 255.468750, 0.000000 255.468750 00000503-mesh-BBox.png ...

00000158.mesh, x and y scaled by 2.0:

"submeshes" 500 faces each:

...with this maybe someone can help write a Noesis/Max script to import/export them. well, I'm not a fan of writing scripts but as a first helper this tool may serve: Make_obj-JX3.zip Uses simple formula for getting the uvs' start address, so might fail. Tested with 00000506.mesh and 00000163.mesh ...

FVFsize= 6; but I see, it's ShortAll (instead of WordUV, which you seem to have used for uvs' displaying only.)

My confusion also aroused from the fact that there seems to be 6 floats values (bounding box) before the mesh using shorts.

Bigchillghost wrote:It seems that the model needs proper scaling to get the perfect mesh.

I don't even know how this can work: floats for the mesh don't fit into an FVF of 6?

dropoff wrote:there is no other way i know to extract map meshes.

(stuck to WordUV again after having tried HF_UV)

you need to scroll down the list 'til its end using the cursor down key: (yeah, sorry, "secret feature", I did miss the scroll wheel handling with this ugly combo box )

CZW wrote: the new ..

https://ibb.co/dea5Bz
address set, i select the .smf ... nothing append

the old

https://ibb.co/j2hfde

Hi CZW,
yeah, you need to select KinectSW in the lower right combo box (not CaptnAmerica). Should have mentioned that in the readme.

Subjugator (has the 4 FFs again): vAddr is 0x15070