The First Templar (*.bin files)

[Tosyk]

In searching of meshes i found an interesting mention about granny format in binassets.hpk, but all files are in archives with bin extension and looks like they are not encrypted. Here all files from binassets.hpk except animations.bin.

can someone handle those bins?

[delutto]

It seems they contain files "GR2".

[MichaelDarkAngel]

Based on just looking at the files, none of this has yet been fully tested.

"report.csv"

Most important part of this file is the last bit of each line. The number at the end of each line is the byte size of the vertex data block contained in "meshes.vb.bin"
Secondly important is the section prior to that number. This includes the name of the model.

"meshes.gr2.bin"

Contains blocks of granny information for each model. Each block appears to follow this structure:

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Byte    Type         Description
Count
0000 -- Int32     -- Block size
0548 -- Float (6) -- Bounding Box
0572 -- Int32     -- Number of Verts
0576 -- Int32     -- Number of Indices

"meshes.ib.bin"

Contains blocks of face information. Starting from the beginning of each block read a number of UInt16 equal to the Number of Indices from the gr2 file. What is hard for me to explain is the variable amount of 00 byte padding at the end of each block.

"meshes.vb.bin"

Contains blocks of vertex information. Starting from the beginning of each block read a number 24 byte blocks equal to the Number of Verts from the gr2 file. Inside that 24 byte block is the vert position and tvert position for each vertex. Once again there is a variable amount of 00 byte padding at the end of each block. However, because of the "report.csv" file, we know the exact size of each block.

At this time, I can only assume that vert and tvert positions are being stored as Int16s somewhere in that 24 byte block, but I don't have a lot of time right now to do further testing.

HTH,

[Tosyk]

Based on just looking at the files, none of this has yet been fully tested...

Thanks for your researches.
I check out this files too, very interesting storing of date so, any chance you have a time to help me with converting those files?

[MichaelDarkAngel]

I generally don't do anything for games I don't own... So I bought it this morning

I'll be looking at it a little more intently over the next few days. Keep a watchful eye for something in the near future.

[MichaelDarkAngel]

Think I've finally gotten the file structure under control. And of course the easiest thing to pick out are the image files



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Continuing on...

[Tosyk]

Think I've finally gotten the file structure under control. And of course the easiest thing to pick out are the image files
Continuing on...

Oh wow even with file names
this game have very quality texture of characters, will be nice to see the models too

thanks for your work

[MichaelDarkAngel]

Now that I've gotten into this a little deeper, I've discovered that the model files are a little more complicated than my first glance led me to believe.

The report.csv file references both static meshes and animations. The last column of the csv file is still a block size, however, when referencing a static mesh its a block size in the meshes.vb.bin file, when referencing an animation its a block size in the animations.bin file.

That apparently makes the first column of the csv file more important now. If the text in that column starts with a drive letter as opposed to just a folder name that means we are looking at an animation.

I'm getting there, hopefully only a day or two more.

[MichaelDarkAngel]

First model files exported from game files and imported into 3DSMax.


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More images will be in my gallery soon. Still working out some bugs in the export process. Still looking for material information.

[Tosyk]

First model files exported from game files and imported into 3DSMax.


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More images will be in my gallery soon. Still working out some bugs in the export process. Still looking for material information.

Nice work MichaelDarkAngel,
i see you already implemented possibility of model converting and this is great i think. Tell me please, is there a way to convert character models with their bones and weight data?

[MichaelDarkAngel]

Nice work MichaelDarkAngel,
i see you already implemented possibility of model converting and this is great i think. Tell me please, is there a way to convert character models with their bones and weight data?

This should be a possibility, all the important information is stored in the gr2 file. I just haven't made it that far yet.

[bruno021]

Any news?With explorer for First templar

[Privateer]

@MichaelDarkAngel,
This thread is what brought me to Xentax.
I did extract a few files and took a quick look at them but other projects never gave me the time to follow up.
I'd be interested in any knowledge you may have as I go back to looking at the files again here soon.
Thanks!

[bruno021]

Still waiting extractor from MichaelDarkAngel.

[SkyeFish]

This looks like a dead thread but I wanted to necro it because I am interested in the progress that was made here and if it might be applicable to the Tropico games. I've been looking at Tropico 4 and have been able to extract textures but not any mesh data.

If any tools for working with such exist I would be interested in them.