The reason I was wondering is that I did locate some of the files that associate with stages and backgrounds, but none of them will open in Noesis at all. [...] Well, none of them except sn_hikari01.aqo. That's the only one that could be previewed and exported. its header says "aqo.VTBF" ...

there are two datablocks, 1769x4 bytes each:
from 0xB290 to 0xCE34 and
from 0xCE40 to 0xE9E4
which may or may not contain uv data.

In the first block every fourth byte is zero,
in the 2nd block it's between 0 and 3 (like some bone id).

Very strange...

maybe a palette problem, or the choosen format is wrong.
Dunno - I'm just providing hints to help people help themselves

I guess this .arc-file type is similar to another .arc-filetypes that can be opened with EveryFileExplorer. Talking about BustUp_WITCH.arc you've uploaded some months ago? Its signature is "darc" while the Fire Emblem .arc begins like this: Offset 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F 00000 3A ...

thx for clearifying!
In my experience it's somewhat harder to pack than to unpack an archive.
Guess you've searched for a similar type of archive and didn't find any?

the arch00 archive starts with the signature "PTAR" while the bms scripts you mentioned check for "LTAR". You could use TextureFinder to check for contained textures (there are some) You could check the filetable at archive's end ("characters\AI\Mat\Bumper.Mat00G" etc.)...

come on, boy! Tell us the whole truth. :D Your request consists of at least three tasks, doesn't it? o pack *.png as *.bch o compress *.bch to *.bch.lz o pack the lz files into an *.arc archive I found that there's an lz compression inside the source code but seems it's used on text files only. 1) w...

[...], the ns2_360.zip script crash the noesis most of the time don't know what you're talking about. Noesis uses python scripts (*.py) or dll plugins. but the texture dont load , any help is the welcome no texture sample, no help (You might try out blender: http://forum.xentax.com/viewtopic.php?f=...

it's very unlikely to get an answer in this sub forum if you didn't get it here:
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=10025&hilit=fist&start=15

Upload the texture sample there and maybe someone will have a look at.

For NSTGun.obj from BuildPlayer-main.zip there are 26931 vertices and the maximum face index seems to be 5574 (or something like that). So a whole bunch of faces is missing. As simple as that. I see two possibilities: either there's a problem unpacking the assets using disunity (maybe something's wr...

FIs' start for the first SM seems to be 0xD0F6 (but doesn't change too much)

As I said it's rather simple to gain the submeshes if you invest some time (that I don't have) (again FIs count may need some adjustment - I didn't really care...)

SergeantJoe wrote:Only shakotay can do that, although he did it mostly by hand and never explained how.

there are at least 10 people in this forum who can/could do this but noone explained how to do it.
Anyway, it will be part of my skel2smd exporter which will be released sooner or later.

pretty sure - but it's not me who will walk it...

but here's a correction for the first submesh:

quickhacked using hex2obj (view link in my sig): vertex count for the submesh was 1483, so you'll need to use more FIs (face indices)

The '2' is the face indices offset to skip the fourth dummy FI (01 00).