.KRV extension in Wii Models?

[Lizz]

I am trying to get the models from 'how to train your dragon' and 'alice in wonderland' out of the game, but most of the files are .krv and I have no clue what those do. Can anyone tell me how to get usable 3d models out of those files?

Thanks

[FurryFan]

Both of those games were developed by Etranges Libellule, (EDIT) They also use .KP2 (K Playstation 2) files in Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon for the PS2. If they are anything related to those, then each level will have it own KRV (K (Nintendo) Revolution) file(s) which will contain all of the assets for that level. There should be a list of file address offsets near the beginning. Can you upload a file from How to train your dragon, so I can attempt to get models from it

[Lizz]

Thanks for the fast reply ^^ If you manage to get stuff out of it, can you tell me how you did it so I can check the rest as well?

Can't upload those directly into here it seems (they do not like .krv and it is just a tad to big as rar), but you can download it here to see if it works: http://www.mediafire.com/?cj0atzqzw2g

This file comes from 'LVL1' apparently and there are several more of these small files along with a 17 MB one...

[FurryFan]

Thanks for the fast reply ^^ If you manage to get stuff out of it, can you tell me how you did it so I can check the rest as well?

Can't upload those directly into here it seems (they do not like .krv and it is just a tad to big as rar), but you can download it here to see if it works: http://www.mediafire.com/?cj0atzqzw2g

This file comes from 'LVL1' apparently and there are several more of these small files along with a 17 MB one...

The file you uploaded is compressed, but it is just a renamed zip file so you can change the extension to .zip and then extract it. This file only has some png textures, probably just the graphics from the title screen judging from the names of the files like tyd0.png
Could you upload the 17MB file as that is most likely to have models in it, or even better a 17MB or larger file from same LVL2 as in some games the first "level" is just a title screen or a cutscene that will not contain any models.

[Lizz]

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[FurryFan]

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[Lizz]

Any luck yet beyond this?

[revelation]

None of the links above work for me. i'll see if i can find some, but if you have sample files, i'll take a look.

[Lizz]

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[Lizz]

Any updates yet on how it goes?

[Quetzalcoatil]

Hey FurryFan,

I see you're using blender to load the tri-strips. I'm slightly proficient with python, but I'm not familiar with the loading of tri-strips. Could you post the script you used for that import?
Also, what did you mean by "98 2ByteInteger#Vertexes"? Did you mean there are 98 uint16 index values or the byte '0x98' followed by a uint16 'number of vertices' ?

Here's the very broken script I'm using to (try and) locate the vertex data. Basically I'm using HexEdit to find a candidate for some float3's, then skipping ahead in the file with a skip_bytes variable then reading in 10 triangles out of them. Needless to say, I'm not finding much.

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######################################################
# TriStrip Importer ... eventually
# This script should be run from the text editor in 
# Blender2.49b (I think it will work with Blender 2.3 
# on to 2.49b, but I've only tested it in 2.49b). 
# As it stands 
#
######################################################
# Importing modules
######################################################
import struct as S

import Blender
from Blender import NMesh
from Blender.BGL import *
from Blender.Draw import *
 
import math

import io
 
# functions
def dec(this): return int(this.encode('hex'),16)
def fourbyte(this): return S.unpack(">f", this)[0]

# variables
skip_bytes = 808 #change this variable to skip to known byte

######################################################
# Main Body
######################################################
def import_Tris(path): 
   Blender.Window.WaitCursor(1) 
   name = path.split('\\')[-1].split('/')[-1]

   # create a new mesh with filename 
   mesh = Blender.NMesh.New( name )  

   # parse the file 
   tris = open(path, 'rb') 

   tris.read(8) #read blank bytes

   if (tris.read(4) == "Her_"): 
	print "File is valid" #(debug)

	# get the name of the mesh from file
	mesh_name = tris.read(6) 

	#skip to tristrip indices?
	tris.read(skip_bytes) 

	# print number of vertices?
	NumVerts = dec(tris.read(2)) 
	print "Number of Verts =",NumVerts

	# create 10 tri's 
	for i in range(0,10):
		Triangle(tris)

   else: print "File is not valid" #(debug)
   tris.close()
	
def Triangle(tris):
	### create a new triangle mesh
	tri = NMesh.GetRaw()
	
	### populate vertices in triangle mesh 
	for i in range(0,3):
		x = fourbyte(tris.read(4))
		y = fourbyte(tris.read(4))
		z = fourbyte(tris.read(4))
		v = NMesh.Vert(x,y,z)
		tri.verts.append(v)
	
	### connect the verts to form a triangle face
	f = NMesh.Face()
	for i in range(0,3):
		f.v.append(tri.verts[i])
	tri.faces.append(f)
	triObj = NMesh.PutRaw(tri)
	Blender.Redraw()

Blender.Window.FileSelector(import_Tris, 'Import')

-Q13

[FurryFan]

Hey FurryFan,

I see you're using blender to load the tri-strips. I'm slightly proficient with python, but I'm not familiar with the loading of tri-strips. Could you post the script you used for that import?
Also, what did you mean by "98 2ByteInteger#Vertexes"? Did you mean there are 98 uint16 index values or the byte '0x98' followed by a uint16 'number of vertices' ?

Here's the very broken script I'm using to (try and) locate the vertex data. Basically I'm using HexEdit to find a candidate for some float3's, then skipping ahead in the file with a skip_bytes variable then reading in 10 triangles out of them. Needless to say, I'm not finding much.

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######################################################
# TriStrip Importer ... eventually
# This script should be run from the text editor in 
# Blender2.49b (I think it will work with Blender 2.3 
# on to 2.49b, but I've only tested it in 2.49b). 
# As it stands 
#
######################################################
# Importing modules
######################################################
import struct as S

import Blender
from Blender import NMesh
from Blender.BGL import *
from Blender.Draw import *
 
import math

import io
 
# functions
def dec(this): return int(this.encode('hex'),16)
def fourbyte(this): return S.unpack(">f", this)[0]

# variables
skip_bytes = 808 #change this variable to skip to known byte

######################################################
# Main Body
######################################################
def import_Tris(path): 
   Blender.Window.WaitCursor(1) 
   name = path.split('\\')[-1].split('/')[-1]

   # create a new mesh with filename 
   mesh = Blender.NMesh.New( name )  

   # parse the file 
   tris = open(path, 'rb') 

   tris.read(8) #read blank bytes

   if (tris.read(4) == "Her_"): 
	print "File is valid" #(debug)

	# get the name of the mesh from file
	mesh_name = tris.read(6) 

	#skip to tristrip indices?
	tris.read(skip_bytes) 

	# print number of vertices?
	NumVerts = dec(tris.read(2)) 
	print "Number of Verts =",NumVerts

	# create 10 tri's 
	for i in range(0,10):
		Triangle(tris)

   else: print "File is not valid" #(debug)
   tris.close()
	
def Triangle(tris):
	### create a new triangle mesh
	tri = NMesh.GetRaw()
	
	### populate vertices in triangle mesh 
	for i in range(0,3):
		x = fourbyte(tris.read(4))
		y = fourbyte(tris.read(4))
		z = fourbyte(tris.read(4))
		v = NMesh.Vert(x,y,z)
		tri.verts.append(v)
	
	### connect the verts to form a triangle face
	f = NMesh.Face()
	for i in range(0,3):
		f.v.append(tri.verts[i])
	tri.faces.append(f)
	triObj = NMesh.PutRaw(tri)
	Blender.Redraw()

Blender.Window.FileSelector(import_Tris, 'Import')

-Q13

Oh I do not know any scripts, the way that I import tristrips of the type used in this game is by using microsoft word, to past in the tristrips and then add in a "00 00" in between strips strips in this seem to start with the hex byte "98" so I do find and replace all in microsoft word, which will not work all the time because not all 98 are strip starters hence the dragon in the picture is not filled in correctly. After I do the replacements I append it 3 times, removing no bytes, the firstbyte, then the second byte and paste it in an ogre3d file with the vertexes and then import using someone else's ogre3dxml importer mesh into blender. Then I delete the vertex at the first location and then the thousands of null ones at 0,0,0.
I use excel formulas to change the edninan into the other edinan type.

[Quetzalcoatil]

Oh I do not know any scripts, the way that I import tristrips of the type used in this game is by using microsoft word, to past in the tristrips and then add in a "00 00" in between strips strips in this seem to start with the hex byte "98" so I do find and replace all in microsoft word, which will not work all the time because not all 98 are strip starters hence the dragon in the picture is not filled in correctly. After I do the replacements I append it 3 times, removing no bytes, the firstbyte, then the second byte and paste it in an ogre3d file with the vertexes and then import using someone else's ogre3dxml importer mesh into blender. Then I delete the vertex at the first location and then the thousands of null ones at 0,0,0.
I use excel formulas to change the edninan into the other edinan type.

o_0

Well, thanks FurryFan, I'll try to follow your work-flow, then adapt a blender importer for it... eventually. <)
-Q13

[chrrox]

tri-strip is easy to load.
just read them as triangle list values like so.

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StartDirection = 1 
f1 = (ReadBEword f) + 1 
f2 = (ReadBEword f) + 1   
FaceDirection = StartDirection 
while (ftell f) != (FaceStartPos + (FaceCount * 2))Do ( 
f3 = (ReadBEword f) 
if (f3==0xFFFF) then ( 
f1 = (ReadBEword f) + 1 
f2 = (ReadBEword f) + 1 
FaceDirection = StartDirection    
) else ( 
f3 += 1 
FaceDirection *= -1 
if (f1!=f2)AND(f2!=f3)AND(f3!=f1) then ( 
if FaceDirection > 0 then append Face_array [(f1),(f2),(f3)] 
else append Face_array [(f1),(f3),(f2)] 
) 
f1 = f2 
f2 = f3 
)   
) 

[FurryFan]

tri-strip is easy to load.
just read them as triangle list values like so.

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StartDirection = 1 
f1 = (ReadBEword f) + 1 
f2 = (ReadBEword f) + 1   
FaceDirection = StartDirection 
while (ftell f) != (FaceStartPos + (FaceCount * 2))Do ( 
f3 = (ReadBEword f) 
if (f3==0xFFFF) then ( 
f1 = (ReadBEword f) + 1 
f2 = (ReadBEword f) + 1 
FaceDirection = StartDirection    
) else ( 
f3 += 1 
FaceDirection *= -1 
if (f1!=f2)AND(f2!=f3)AND(f3!=f1) then ( 
if FaceDirection > 0 then append Face_array [(f1),(f2),(f3)] 
else append Face_array [(f1),(f3),(f2)] 
) 
f1 = f2 
f2 = f3 
)   
) 

chrrox while we are on the topic of tristrips do you know of a script that can export meshes as implicit tristrips where the strip is in order (00, 01,02,03,04...N) where vertexes can repeat (ie vertex #4 could be vertex#55) so that the sequenital tristrip spans the whole mesh.
This could be used to inject meshes into this game, as models in this game could be just one long strip in theory.