The Crew fat/dat archives

[Faithfullfaun]

I only want the car models

But i really hope someone will make an importer for the XBG files

That could be awesome

[mono24]

Everything can be unpacked

Well, not everything.

...at the moment there's no way to open them...

Wrong.

But I really hope someone will make an importer for the XBG files

And as you can see above everything still works as should, I don't understand what else you want as an importer if models work.

[CobraGamer]

...and do you wanna tell us what program to open the XBGs with?

[mono24]

...and do you wanna tell us what program to open the XBGs with?

Ummmm, your joking right?
That's 3dsMax in the screenshot, everything has been posted already since 2013, but I guess that's what happens when no one cares to do a bit of search in the forum anymore, damn.

[CobraGamer]

That's 3dsMax in the screenshot, everything has been posted already since 2013, but I guess that's what happens when no one cares to do a bit of search in the forum anymore, damn.

Inappropriate answer for a serious question.
I was expecting a proper method instead of a plugin for a professional modelling software that is 1.5k USD per year.

Everything can be unpacked

Well, not everything.

Everything can be unpacked.

[mono24]

Inappropriate answer for a serious question.

Not only that a plain text does not carry proper tone, a question like that can not be taken too serious giving the fact everything is already posted, and people, yourself included, are still ignorant to the "search" function, which makes no sense, have you ever taken in to consideration as to why so many "serious questions" are left hanging? Just think about it, anyway.

I was expecting a proper method instead of a plugin for a professional modelling software that is 1.5k USD per year.

There is a proper way, its a 3dsMax script that does the job just fine, we all use what we get here for free, I am sure you can make it work same way we all do even with its host expensive software .

Everything can be unpacked.

Once again wrong, if you would have taken the time to look back in my post you'd see that NOT everything can be extracted giving the existing unpacker, period.

[CobraGamer]

I simply didn't expect a 3dsMax script from 2013 to still work, and not everybody can recognize software from a screenshot that's not even full screen sized.
Also, could you tell me what files can't be extracted? I'm not gonna test each of the 45 archives as it seems like you already did? Do some of the archives have a different format or something else that causes the unpacker to not work?

[nicpad78]

Everything can be unpacked

Well, not everything.

...at the moment there's no way to open them...

Wrong.

But I really hope someone will make an importer for the XBG files

And as you can see above everything still works as should, I don't understand what else you want as an importer if models work.

great job, you can understand what tools you used and have a list of the programs used to achieve this result
thank you!

[daemon1]

Did a few tests with The Crew 2 maps, they can be exported, format is the same as the Crew 1.

[daemon1]

The whole The Crew 2 road map loaded - 13 million vertices
Blender file is 1GB in size

[Faithfullfaun]

The whole The Crew 2 road map loaded - 13 million vertices
Blender file is 1GB in size

How long did that take to load?

[daemon1]

The whole The Crew 2 road map loaded - 13 million vertices
Blender file is 1GB in size

How long did that take to load?

After importing ascii into blender, this blender file loads in about 5 seconds.

Import is what takes long, it was about 10 or 15 minutes.

[Faithfullfaun]

The whole The Crew 2 road map loaded - 13 million vertices
Blender file is 1GB in size

How long did that take to load?

After importing ascii into blender, this blender file loads in about 5 seconds.

Import is what takes long, it was about 10 or 15 minutes.

Okay then it's like Uncharted maps
Then i usally save them as blend. files to make it faster aswell

[mono24]

More progress has been made by Daemon, this time terrain data, it all falls nicely with the rest of the game assets, for now they are only vertices in the 3D space, later on will be connected with faces, as usual more info will be posted in due time.

[mono24]

For those of you who missed it, the released tool is located here: viewtopic.php?f=16&t=19065