Telltale Games "Almost-All-In-One" Model Importer

[RandomTBush]

UPDATED 03/03/2018:

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Added support for Back to the Future: The Game (30th Anniversary Edition), PS4 version only!
Fixed D3DTX-to-DDS QuickBMS scripts so that file size is applied properly, whoops!

This MaxScript set is the result of a year's worth of work. Well, not completely, I started working on this back in July 2013, left it for a few months in half-complete state and just recently finished it up. This bundle of scripts for 3DS Max will import the models from the majority of games that Telltale Games developed, with the original bone structures and rigging information (which by the way was no fun to fix up).



What games will this work with? [PC, unless stated otherwise]:

• Back to the Future: The Game (30th Anniversary Edition) [PS4]
  Batman: The Telltale Series [PC]
  Batman: The Enemy Within
  Bone: Out from Boneville
  Bone: The Great Cow Race
  CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder
  CSI: Hard Evidence
  Game of Thrones
  Jurassic Park: The Game
  Law & Order: Legacies
  Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy [PC]
  Minecraft: Story Mode [PC / PS4]
  Minecraft: Story Mode Season 2
  Poker Night 2
  Sam & Max Season 1
  Sam & Max Season 2
  Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People Episode 1 (Homestar Ruiner)
  Tales from the Borderlands [PC / PS4]
  Telltale Texas Hold'em
  The Walking Dead Season 1 [PC / PS4 (use TWD:S2/TWAU importer instead!)]
  The Walking Dead Season 2
  The Walking Dead: A New Frontier (Season 3)
  The Walking Dead: Michonne
  The Wolf Among Us [PC and PS4]

What games will this NOT work with (yet)?:

• Back to the Future: The Game [PC]
  CSI: Deadly Intent
  CSI: Fatal Conspiracy
  Poker Night at the Inventory
  Sam & Max Season 3
  Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People Episodes 2-5
  Tales of Monkey Island
  Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures

All because of compressed vertex/face buffers. Blame Telltale.

Important things to keep in mind:

• You'll need both the *.D3DMesh and *.SKL files, which should be in the same folder.
  Most of the earlier games will import with the textures pre-applied if you have the *.DDS files in a "Textures" subfolder, newer games won't due to material hashes that I've yet to figure out.
  Bone names in the newer games are hashed the same way, but I've added a list of "default" names to replace 'em where applicable.
  Use the QuickBMS scripts supplied to convert the D3DTX files to DDS, if necessary.

Download MaxScript
Download D3DTX to DDS QuickBMS Script

Please let me know if there are problems importing any of the models using this script, and I'll do what I can to fix it!

[TRDaz]

Awesome job on this Question though, I have The Wolf Among Us but im not sure how to extract the ttarch2 files, how would i extract them?

EDIT: I found the ttarchext that works, but it doesnt work when i add the -m command for the dds textures. Also, where are the .skl files found? :/
Nvm, think I just figured it out

[pepsiguy2]

how did you get dds textures?

[TRDaz]

I didn't get them yet actually, i've asked on the thread where ttarchext was posted.

[RandomTBush]

how did you get dds textures?

I just spliced the data from the *.d3dtx into a DDS file and trimmed it to the proper resolutions.

[pepsiguy2]

how did you get dds textures?

I just spliced the data from the *.d3dtx into a DDS file and trimmed it to the proper resolutions.

after or before the header?

[RandomTBush]

how did you get dds textures?

I just spliced the data from the *.d3dtx into a DDS file and trimmed it to the proper resolutions.

after or before the header?

After. The largest mipmap is stored at the end of the file. I would advise using that one TextureFinder program to find the starting offset, if you've got it.

[TRDaz]

I'm confused which part to cut from the d3dtx, ive tried texturefinder, found the correct texture and offset but the file apparently doesnt have that offset in hex editor.

[TRDaz]

Any help? It's been frustrating me because I want these models and they are not useful without textures :/

[RandomTBush]

I'm thinking of something. Maybe I can set up like what chrrox had for the PSSG script, and locate/extract DDS files that way.

[TRDaz]

Oh ok thank you

[pepsiguy2]

Any help? It's been frustrating me because I want these models and they are not useful without textures :/

I just gave up and started using Ninja Ripper/Texmod for the textures, lol.

[TRDaz]

I had a few ninja ripper rips before, that I used for a model, but I feel like thats a tedious way to do it :/

[RandomTBush]

I've looked through the D3DTX files, and I've now added a button at the bottom of the pop-up which will allow you to convert the textures into DDS -- just re-download the script in the first post and use that. I know it works with (and will autodetect) DXT1, DXT5, and the greyscale-paletted images for the lines in The Wolf Among Us. Please inform me if you find a texture it doesn't work with -- I've only tested it with a handful of them!

[TRDaz]

Thank you!! Ill test that out later, thanks for doing that!