The link which you provided me to another forum ? it's the same forum, even the same subforum. could you please create a small tool or a batch file to decompress the .grp files. Thanks in advance Paps. That's a python script for blender 2.49 from Szkaradek123 ( BLENDER249-BLADES-OF-TIME.blend in th...

Hi,
welcome to the forum.

Use forum search, please:
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=8810&p=73250&hilit ... grp#p73250

fix it for yourself, please. Rewatch the video from 1:00:00 and correct your errors:

So guys, I'm new at these things. I'll be honest, I just want halo 5 armors for my SFM project. I found Halo 5: Forge models in this forum, I tried to open them in 3DSMax but I can't. Why? Did you ever use a maxscript with 3dsmax? Here's a script from erik945 (didn't test it): http://forum.xentax.c...

TRDaz wrote:where I am unable to find the starts of the faces

WHAT? search for 0000 0100 0200 and you're done.

Why do I have the strange feeling that you're simply too lazy and want to let others do your work? So I'll leave the uvs for you.
well, uv pos is 32.

face indices (33858) * 2 = 67716 - 63096 (0xf678) = 4620 /2 so the last mat group would be assigned to the last 2310 faces out of the submesh total faces 8D For the first submesh, yes, I'd say so. (But I've made a stupid error with absolute/relative face indices, some + is required. Submesh 6 shoul...

Hi Ace, see you'll crack this format sooner or later! :) (addresses are decimal here: "8544 - 1st submesh 1st material group - at 8560") I've checked all FACE entries: # 0x0 0x3c78 0xacf8 0xd674 0xd6b0 0xecdc 0xf678 ---------- # 0x10884 ---------- # 0x10fbc ---------- # 0x11034 0x1193a 0x1...

AceWell wrote:still don't know how to tell whether the data is going to be floats or halffloats though.

should be solvable, atm I've this, some addresses set manually, though: Maybe someone could check the uvs for bogus?
Makeobj_log ob uvs err.zip

St3ve wrote:that byte long floats akin to the terrain vertices

never heard of "byte long floats".
From the point clouds I've found so far I wouldn't know why using IEEE754 floats shouldn't do the trick?

(You could try half floats or shorts, though.)

Last dumb question: But did you get the 864 face indices count by trial & error (That's how I did it on other models) or somehow else? In this case it was (endaddressOfFIs+1-startaddressOfFIs)/2/4*3 iirc. The '2' because it's WORD faceindices, /4*3 because there's a fourth additional 00 00 for ...

mech and weapon data is loaded wholesale into the memory and thus can't be splintered off with the method I'm using this could explain it. btw: can you apply changes to the savestates and load them successfully then? If so you could overwrite some floats (with 00 00 00 00 or better 00 00 80 3F for ...

AceWell wrote:here is something that looks complete

well, I see, the pattern 00 00 10 xx is not valid here. So we've two categories of *.rax files (at least) where that pattern applies and where not?
(I'll care for ob.rax asap, will have to include some debug lines into Make_obj.)

Did you ever code? If 'yes' which programming language did you use? If 'no' it's a bad idea to start with a modelviewer. Check some basic tutorials instead about Java for beginners, C# (or 'C'). You could also look for python (not recommended, imho :D ). Coding a modelviewer from scratch doesn't mak...

AceWell wrote:if you or anyone would like some unsupported samples to look at i will upload them

as a second step I'd like to check a sample where you partially could extract some meshes from. (Checking models where you didn't get any meshes from would be a last step.)