I was re-writing my specs to clarify to him when I realized.. poo I do not have time for this :P maybe I was too harsh? I supplied docs, spreadsheets, answered questions and now I've posted my own work. @ganjul your getting all hyper about this, I don't get why your nit-picking my comments like that...

:| ..ok lol you know I'm really bending over backwards for you man. I understand the documents aren't the best.. but thats more documentation then most formats get most just toss up there source and there done with it. and actually throughout this topic I've uploaded multiple working sourcecodes fro...

I got no problem reviewing and patching up errors in the spread sheet. its just a bit confusing when I want to express my loops because they are mixing many different structures, some loops are carried out by a count. and some others are carried out until a terminator of either -1 or 0 is met beside...

I wish I knew dis-assembly but I don't have any experience lol :( EDIT 1.) you confuse me even more. I see no mention of that in the docs. ok lol :mrgreen: this gets confusing, your not dealing with just one binary format here. your dealing with two :cry: the XPR is like a Jar of jelly beans! both t...

?what how the file flows? MDL >OBJ >>MTL >>MTL >>MTL >OBJ >>MTL >OBJ >OBJ >OBJ >>MTL >>MTL .... something like that, each object houses it own materials. then the control file {CAT} forces these into a common material.. thats why I said before there are less like materials, and more like elements

yes, I've already attempted to reassemble the objects based on the CAT. not not all objects are placed through block1, only half of the model is placed (static only) the other half is positioned in block4, but the positioning is off. importing additional data from block4 shows that there are some ve...

ok since you numbered your questions in the image, I'll provide answers in that order 1.) What is the Point of this? [0x80000000] the documents are wrong in some cases.. That Int is actually a XPR chunk or instruction telling the engine to continue reading at a new address if you have a look at Ninj...

I had a look at the DOAX XPR, its likely easier :D Only differences I can gather are 1.) Start of XPR has a file HASH for file verification 2.) OBJ block's Now Use VertexTypes 2 & 3 in my vertex line I just tossed this in; if vertextype==1 do fseek fstream 4 #seek_cur if vertextype==2 do fseek f...

I'll have a look at the DOA3 format tonight, I think only the material section is different?

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source code on a tool called DOAXExporter

the DOAX format is probably the same as the DOA2U format..

yup, you got what I got...

I'll trying searching for more specs and maybe left over source code from old tools I've collected over the last few years

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I can't recall which source I was reading off of, there were a few... But I'm looking at DOAU, which may be simular to DOAX? anyway I uploaded this, it contains info on the vertex definitions. (the link is only temp, please save the doc for your own reference) https://viewer.zoho.com/docs/rbM0B also...

ok, in b0ny's notes for the material at the end of the material section he has this dword indexoffset; // index buffer - offset dword indexsize; // index buffer - num dword pad35; the last dword is not padding, its another count. but since its an unknown constant it might aswell be pad anyway 00 00 ...

each object gives you the vertex buffer offset and the index buffer offset, along with counts. then at the end of every material section there are 3 counts.. you need the 1st and 2nd to start and end an element the 1st count is the index to start at(from your index buffer), and the 2nd is the amount...

I had an unknown amount of variables in a 128bit binary space. I had to explore every possible idea... I've seen a few games where they stored 16bit floats instead of 32bit floats. but used a 32bit float divisor or multiplier on their 16bitfloats to regain accuracy. I just thought a simular thing ma...