God of War 2018 PS4 Tools

[Hitmanhimself]

I have made 3 GOW tools that will extract the 3d models, textures and locate the textures as per the .wad archive.

Mesh with bones/armature, weights/rig, normals, uv layers, vertex colours can be exported to XNALara .ascii format.

textures are exported to .gnf format which can be viewed/exported using noesis.

Readme file is a must for everyone to read!!

Download both Mesh Exporter v1.4 & Tools pack v1.1 and use the newest version of all the 3 tools.

GOW Mesh Exporter v1.4 - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F3xCVp ... sp=sharing
or: https://mega.nz/file/hINnnAaS#t6sGNwGxg ... oUiJZ-dHQ0
GOW Tools Pack v1.1 - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_b2K6U ... sp=sharing
or: https://mega.nz/file/sFUFzIqY#BGA-umU9r ... H8bApiZLuM

so people those who are a bit lazy to read readme and changelog or you are unable to understand what to do, i don't really blame you its quite complicated, so you can watch this video: https://mega.nz/folder/pJ1WHY4b#tmfzO8NKzFvb59AcFWLMiw

NOTE: you need to have dotNET core 3.1 SDK installed in you pc, if you don't have, the tool will close automatically, so just do it.

Extra Links:
quickbms:https://aluigi.altervista.org/papers/quickbms.zip
god_of_war_2018.bms: https://aluigi.altervista.org/bms/god_of_war_2018.bms
noesis: https://richwhitehouse.com/index.php?co ... ojects.php

NOTE: This time for mesh exporter v1.3 and above, when quickbms prompts for duplicates while unpacking the .wad files. just enter 'r' to rename all the duplicate file.

NOTE: When you will view/export/batch process some of the .GNF images in noesis, noesis will crash, in that case for the image which noesis crashes use this tool export them:
https://github.com/xdanieldzd/Scarlet ..thanks @Joschka
noesis crash is not on my side
and 99% or the images work fine with noesis so don't worry.

SPECIAL THANKS TO:
@akderebur
@Turk645
@Joschka
@DKDave
@id-daemon
For all the help on the first project, without help I would have reached no where!



Advice:
From what I have tested all of the characters should export properly and map meshes should too, however map meshes will have LOD meshes too and the position of the static meshes will be random and wierd, so you will have to align the map/static meshes to make the level or the environment properly for a scene.

Maybe in future I will try to get animation support and a way to LOD filter map meshes and getting position for meshes, but not sure.

Updates:
1. GOW Tools Pack v1.1 has been released, download from above link. readme has been updated and change log is in there.
2. GOW Mesh Exporter v1.2 has released.
3. GOW Mesh Exporter v1.3 has released
4. GOW Mesh Exporter v1.4 has released

OLD Versions:
1. GOW Tools Pack v1:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1r0rTEe ... sp=sharing
or: https://mega.nz/file/tVlQzKxI#ZiymP_vi1 ... xVTrrXbIqs
2. GOW Mesh Exporter v1.2 - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iVqzIo ... sp=sharing
or https://mega.nz/file/9UV2CTZT#QaMKLkxbA ... _Kw4xB0WiM
3. GOW Mesh Exporter v1.3 - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fQ37rC ... sp=sharing
or: https://mega.nz/file/1EExnISA#gbvwukDUn ... 3PEGjovfd4

[Petrgold]

Awesome, thanks mate ! Going to try it tomorrow !

[jeandark]

thanks for the tool!
I am at the same time following its development and learning through discord.

[mono24]

Amazing to finally see this surface out of no where.
Since you said your most likely not gonna cater for this release and make it better etc.
The following are imperative to fix though, major one is, no proper bone rotations exist in the skeletals.

And also converting r_hero i get the following error.

[Hitmanhimself]

Amazing to finally see this surface out of no where.
Since you said your most likely not gonna cater for this release and make it better etc.
The following are imperative to fix though, major one is, no proper bone rotations exist in the skeletals.

And also converting r_hero i get the following error.

today I tested 60 r_ wad files, out of them 10-11 had exceptional errors, I will deal with them in few days. and about r_hero, I have tested that, it works fine, make sure when you are using the quickbms script, when it prompts you for duplicates, just press skip all. everything inside r_hero should export.
Can you explain a bit more about the rotations?

[macodys]

any chance for animations?

[Crazy31139]

Hi, need help, i dont understand which .lodpack need use to extract r_freya00.wad
I only have this:
010_forest_010.lodpack
010_forest_020.lodpack
020_riverpass_010.lodpack
020_riverpass_020.lodpack
030_caldera_010.lodpack
040_foothills_010.lodpack
050_alfheim_010.lodpack
050_alfheim_020.lodpack
050_alfheim_030.lodpack
060_peakspass_010.lodpack
070_caldera_010.lodpack
080_stonemason_010.lodpack
080_stonemason_020.lodpacktoc
090_caldera_010.lodpack
110_helheim_010.lodpack
120_helheimr_010.lodpack
130_caldera_010.lodpack
140_jotunheim_010.lodpack

Try all, extacted freya00.ascii, import to blender, importing only one bones without mesh
Noesis cant load preview model

[gep55]

Hi, need help, i dont understand which .lodpack need use to extract r_freya00.wad
I only have this:
010_forest_010.lodpack
010_forest_020.lodpack
020_riverpass_010.lodpack
020_riverpass_020.lodpack
030_caldera_010.lodpack
040_foothills_010.lodpack
050_alfheim_010.lodpack
050_alfheim_020.lodpack
050_alfheim_030.lodpack
060_peakspass_010.lodpack
070_caldera_010.lodpack
080_stonemason_010.lodpack
080_stonemason_020.lodpacktoc
090_caldera_010.lodpack
110_helheim_010.lodpack
120_helheimr_010.lodpack
130_caldera_010.lodpack
140_jotunheim_010.lodpack

Try all, extacted freya00.ascii, import to blender, importing only one bones without mesh
Noesis cant load preview model

You need to select root.lodpack.
Corresponding .texpack is named the same.

[gep55]

I can extract Freya's mesh fine to .ascii format and the weighting/skeleton's seems fine in blender, but I'm having trouble with the texture extraction.

Do I need to extract all the .texpack files or just root.texpack?

If I extract just root.texpack, I can get some of Freya's textures, but many of them are still missing.

Cheers

[Hitmanhimself]

I can extract Freya's mesh fine to .ascii format and the weighting/skeleton's seems fine in blender, but I'm having trouble with the texture extraction.

Do I need to extract all the .texpack files or just root.texpack?

If I extract just root.texpack, I can get some of Freya's textures, but many of them are still missing.

Cheers

And about the Textures,
characters have their textures stored inside root.texpack, aswell as other map .texpack files.(eg. forest etc)
So what I do to get almost all the texutes is
I extract all the .texpack files(every single .texpack file)
With the tool(Gow tex extractor) I will select a .texpack then I will select a "Desired folder" suppose named "GOW Textures"., And suppose I choose root.texpack first, then it will be extracted like this> GOW Textures/root/"all .GNF images"
Same I do with other .texpack files,then I choose the same "GOW Textures" folder, Finally after all the .texpack files have been extracted, I used the gow image finder tool, I select the unpaked .wad folder, then I select the "GOW Textures" folder, then I select a Desired folder, where all the Textures will be copied

[Hitmanhimself]

any chance for animations?

Maybe I am not sure, because it's hard to extract animations as people have told me, and I am really new to all of this.
My exams are also coming in few weeks so...., I will have less time. Right now I will be focusing to get rid of exceptional errors and make the tool a bit more accessible and easy to use. So I can't give any word about animations, May be in future who knows

[mono24]

Can you explain a bit more about the rotations?

Grab any given character, go in to pose mode in Blender and make sure your in local not global as you see in my screenshot above, and pose hands/fingers for example, or even whole arm/legs and you'll see that rotations do not exist for natural proper way of rotating them, you seemed to have got the positions of the bones just not the rotations.

Obviously i am no reverser to explain in technical terms, but i am sure akderebur/joschka/id-daemon will be able to guide you better than me.

[Hitmanhimself]

Can you explain a bit more about the rotations?

Grab any given character, go in to pose mode in Blender and make sure your in local not global as you see in my screenshot above, and pose hands/fingers for example, or even whole arm/legs and you'll see that rotations do not exist for natural proper way of rotating them, you seemed to have got the positions of the bones just not the rotations.

Obviously i am no reverser to explain in technical terms, but i am sure akderebur/joschka/id-daemon will be able to guide you better than me.

Hmm, I will see what's happening

[gep55]

I can extract Freya's mesh fine to .ascii format and the weighting/skeleton's seems fine in blender, but I'm having trouble with the texture extraction.

Do I need to extract all the .texpack files or just root.texpack?

If I extract just root.texpack, I can get some of Freya's textures, but many of them are still missing.

Cheers

And about the Textures,
characters have their textures stored inside root.texpack, aswell as other map .texpack files.(eg. forest etc)
So what I do to get almost all the texutes is
I extract all the .texpack files(every single .texpack file)
With the tool(Gow tex extractor) I will select a .texpack then I will select a "Desired folder" suppose named "GOW Textures"., And suppose I choose root.texpack first, then it will be extracted like this> GOW Textures/root/"all .GNF images"
Same I do with other .texpack files,then I choose the same "GOW Textures" folder, Finally after all the .texpack files have been extracted, I used the gow image finder tool, I select the unpaked .wad folder, then I select the "GOW Textures" folder, then I select a Desired folder, where all the Textures will be copied

Thanks for the info. If I may make a suggestion, add an option the select multiple .texpack files at once for unpacking. As they all take a long time to unpack, It would be useful to be able to do them all in one go.

Thank you so much for making these tools

[Crazy31139]

Hi, cant extract model correct, run GOW Mesh Exporter.exe choose root.lodpack, choose folder r_freya00 ( when i extract r_freya00.wad)
extract to root disk, noesis dont load model, blender cant import
extracted .ascii file (15mb) - https://drive.google.com/file/d/11_aXsi ... sp=sharing

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