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[Request]Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction

Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 12:27 am
by o0DemonBoy0o
I took a look at the files in ToD and while the format of the textures seem to be the same used in the later games the models seem to be in a different format.

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I think the models could be in the vertices.dat and/or the main.dat located in each of the level folders.

Here are the those two files from the Fastoon level so that someone can take a look.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/z4fwpdnx7y36isa/a9hQ56QbN9

Re: [Request]Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction

Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 10:23 pm
by Gh0stBlade
Edited....

Re: [Request]Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction

Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2014 12:33 am
by o0DemonBoy0o
Neat, Thanks for the info.
I noticed the missing data when comparing the verticies.dat to the mobys.dat from the other games.
I'm able to get meshes with hex2obj after editing the verticies.dat slightly
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It's a pretty painful processes though

I can't get files from ToD right now, but Quest for Booty uses the same format.
Here are some files from the prologue level. I included some files witch might have that missing data in them, though if it's not, then i'm not sure what would contain it?
the game.self, or eboot.bin maybe? There's also a debug.psarc and game.psarc in the main game folder.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qyqbhodsls12o ... ologue.zip

Re: [Request]Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction

Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2014 6:01 pm
by shakotay2
o0DemonBoy0o wrote:It's a pretty painful processes though
yep.
The sequence 0000 0001 0002 is found 3945 times.
Don't know whether each sequence is indicating the start of a new object's/sub meshes face index list
but using a script on this as Gh0sBblade did seems to be the better choice.

btw: UV pos=12 seems to fit better for your example

For Quest for Booty (vertices.dat)I used these params:
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Re: [Request]Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction

Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2014 1:12 am
by o0DemonBoy0o
Wow, 3945 times?

I figured I would fix that once I got to a model I wanted, but it appears that won't happen anytime soon.
I've been through about 40 meshes so far in the ToD Fastoon verticies.dat, and everything seems to be its own object.

Re: [Request]Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction

Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2014 9:45 am
by cra0
Gh0stBlade wrote:I'll get things started off. I decided to take a quick peek, I have managed to suss out the majority of the format however, there seems to be "missing info" for the mesh vert strides etc. I think another file must contain the info because I cannot see where it could be stored. Where i have the full size of the vertices it seems to be wrong since the data keeps changing, i think multiple FVFs must be referenced somewhere else.

I don't have the time to fix this nor the file samples so I'll just post this so that someone else can either fix it or just use it in the future.

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#Ratchet and Clank Tools Of Destruction .DAT loader
#By Gh0stBlade
#v0.1a

from inc_noesis import *
import noesis
import rapi

def registerNoesisTypes():
   handle = noesis.register("Ratchet and Clank Tools Of Destruction [PS3]", ".dat")
   noesis.setHandlerTypeCheck(handle, noepyCheckType)
   noesis.setHandlerLoadModel(handle, noepyLoadModel) #see also noepyLoadModelRPG
   noesis.logPopup()
   return 1

NOEPY_HEADER = ""

#check if it's this type based on the data
def noepyCheckType(data):
	bs = NoeBitStream(data)
	MAGIC = bs.readInt()
	if MAGIC != 0x57484749:
		print("Fatal Error: Unknown filetype!")
		return 0     
	return 1

#load the model
def noepyLoadModel(data, mdlList):
	ctx = rapi.rpgCreateContext()
	rapi.rpgSetOption(noesis.RPGOPT_BIGENDIAN, 1)
	bs = NoeBitStream(data)
	bs.setEndian(NOE_BIGENDIAN)
	
	SIGN = bs.readInt() 								#Signature - "WHGI"
	UNK00 = bs.readShort()								#???
	UNK01 = bs.readShort()								#???
	NUMOBJECTS = bs.readInt()							#Number of Objects in the file?
	PTR_END_OTBL = bs.readInt()							#Points to end of object table OR start of "PAD" data o.o
	
	PTR_UNK00 = bs.readInt()							#Points to some unknown table with each value with length 0x4
	NUM_UNK00 = bs.readInt()							#Unknown, is the count of how many longs stored at the offset above.
	PADDING = bs.readShort()							#Padding just says "0xDE, 0xAD" or "DEAD" o.o;
	PADDING = bs.readShort()							#Padding just says "0xDE, 0xAD" or "DEAD" o.o;
	PADDING = bs.readShort()							#Padding just says "0xDE, 0xAD" or "DEAD" o.o;
	PADDING = bs.readShort()							#Padding just says "0xDE, 0xAD" or "DEAD" o.o;
	
	MESHINFO = []											#MESH[]
	for i in range(0, NUMOBJECTS):
		OBJECTTYPE = bs.readInt()
		OBJECTOFFSET = bs.readInt()
		OBJECTUNK00 = bs.readInt()
		OBJECTSIZE = bs.readInt()
		#					0			1			2				3
		MESHINFO.append([OBJECTTYPE, OBJECTOFFSET, OBJECTUNK00, OBJECTSIZE])
	
	
	for i in range(0, NUMOBJECTS):
		if MESHINFO[i][0] == 0x00009000: #Vertices?
			bs.seek(MESHINFO[i][1], NOESEEK_ABS)			#Skip to the vertices
			print(bs.tell())
			VBUFFER = bs.readBytes(MESHINFO[i][3])			#Read vertices
			NUMVERTS = int(MESHINFO[i][3] / 0x18)
			print(bs.tell())
		elif MESHINFO[i][0] == 0x00009100: #Faces?
			#bs.seek(MESHINFO[i][1], NOESEEK_ABS)			#Skip to the faces
			#FBUFFER = bs.readBytes(MESHINFO[i][3])			#Read faces
			#NUMFACES = 
			print(bs.tell())

	rapi.rpgBindPositionBufferOfs(VBUFFER, noesis.RPGEODATA_INT, 0x18, 0)
	rapi.rpgCommitTriangles(None, noesis.RPGEODATA_USHORT, 0x1900, noesis.RPGEO_POINTS, 1)
	#rapi.rpgCommitTriangles(FBUFFER, noesis.RPGEODATA_USHORT, NUMFACES, noesis.RPGEO_TRIANGLE_STRIP, 1)
	mdl = rapi.rpgConstructModel()
	mdlList.append(mdl) #important, don't forget to put your loaded model in the mdlList
	rapi.rpgClearBufferBinds()
	return 1

It's messy but it pretty much explains the full format.
Very useful yeah I'll look into it again

Re: [Request]Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction

Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2014 4:22 pm
by chrrox
if you want to look at a full games files.
Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time Clank (Great Clock Demo):
http://zeus.dl.playstation.net/cdn/UP90 ... 9JKPJF.pkg

Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time Ratchet (Krell Canyon Demo):
http://zeus.dl.playstation.net/cdn/UP90 ... jOPpBY.pkg

Re: [Request]Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction

Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2014 7:10 pm
by o0DemonBoy0o
chrrox wrote:if you want to look at a full games files.
Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time Clank (Great Clock Demo):
http://zeus.dl.playstation.net/cdn/UP90 ... 9JKPJF.pkg

Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time Ratchet (Krell Canyon Demo):
http://zeus.dl.playstation.net/cdn/UP90 ... jOPpBY.pkg
Thanks chrrox, but it's already possible to get models from A Crack in Time and the games after.
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=10977
The only thing left is the UVs which seem correct but stretch out for some reason

Tools of Destruction and Quest for Booty seem to use a different format than the later games which is what i'm interested in.

Re: [Request]Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction

Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 6:28 am
by chrrox
Not sure what you mean the format looks identical.

Re: [Request]Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction

Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 4:01 pm
by Gh0stBlade
chrrox wrote:Not sure what you mean the format looks identical.
Yeah I did a search and I think Resistance 2 (i think that's what the game was) used the same format. Only the flags had been changed which references the types of the objects.

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I'm not sure what has been "done" but if there are already tools which can view the models as seen a few posts above, why does it need doing twice?

This thread needs a bit of clarification hmmm, I'm mis-informed.

Re: [Request]Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction

Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 11:30 pm
by o0DemonBoy0o
Gh0stBlade wrote:
chrrox wrote:Not sure what you mean the format looks identical.
Yeah I did a search and I think Resistance 2 (i think that's what the game was) used the same format. Only the flags had been changed which references the types of the objects.

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I'm not sure what has been "done" but if there are already tools which can view the models as seen a few posts above, why does it need doing twice?

This thread needs a bit of clarification hmmm, I'm mis-informed.
Well while I can get the models, it's a very slow process. going through over 3000 different meshes one by one just to get a single model isn't very fun.
I guess what i'm looking for is some sort of automated process or something.

Re: [Request]Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2014 3:23 am
by chrrox
you have to parse shaders.dat it contains all the information for loading the other files.
the list of files is in level_cached.toc and they need to be loaded in the order in that file.

Re: [Request]Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2014 5:06 am
by o0DemonBoy0o
chrrox wrote:you have to parse shaders.dat it contains all the information for loading the other files.
the list of files is in level_cached.toc and they need to be loaded in the order in that file.
Tools of Destruction and Quest for booty don't have a shaders.dat file.

All the level folders for both games look pretty much exactly like this

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built/levels/fastoon/main.dat
built/levels/fastoon/vertices.dat
built/levels/fastoon/textures.dat
built/levels/fastoon/collision.dat
built/levels/fastoon/gameplay.dat
built/levels/fastoon/resident_sound.dat
built/levels/fastoon/resident_sound.us.dat
built/levels/fastoon/resident_sound.gb.dat
built/levels/fastoon/resident_sound.fr.dat
built/levels/fastoon/resident_sound.it.dat
built/levels/fastoon/resident_sound.de.dat
built/levels/fastoon/resident_sound.es.dat
built/levels/fastoon/resident_sound.nl.dat
built/levels/fastoon/resident_sound.pt.dat
built/levels/fastoon/resident_sound.jp.dat
built/levels/fastoon/resident_sound.kr.dat
built/levels/fastoon/resident_sound.cn.dat
built/levels/fastoon/resident_sound.dk.dat
built/levels/fastoon/resident_sound.fi.dat
built/levels/fastoon/resident_sound.no.dat
built/levels/fastoon/resident_sound.se.dat
packed/levels/levelfastoon/ps3gameplay.us.pkg
packed/levels/levelfastoon/ps3gameplay.gb.pkg
packed/levels/levelfastoon/ps3gameplay.fr.pkg
packed/levels/levelfastoon/ps3gameplay.it.pkg
packed/levels/levelfastoon/ps3gameplay.de.pkg
packed/levels/levelfastoon/ps3gameplay.es.pkg
packed/levels/levelfastoon/ps3gameplay.nl.pkg
packed/levels/levelfastoon/ps3gameplay.pt.pkg
packed/levels/levelfastoon/ps3gameplay.jp.pkg
packed/levels/levelfastoon/ps3gameplay.kr.pkg
packed/levels/levelfastoon/ps3gameplay.cn.pkg
packed/levels/levelfastoon/ps3gameplay.dk.pkg
packed/levels/levelfastoon/ps3gameplay.fi.pkg
packed/levels/levelfastoon/ps3gameplay.no.pkg
packed/levels/levelfastoon/ps3gameplay.se.pkg
built/levels/fastoon/fxconduit_packed.dat
built/levels/fastoon/effect.dat
built/levels/fastoon/system.tp
built/levels/fastoon/system.tph
built/levels/fastoon/dialogue.us.pkg
built/levels/fastoon/dialogue.gb.pkg
built/levels/fastoon/dialogue.fr.pkg
built/levels/fastoon/dialogue.it.pkg
built/levels/fastoon/dialogue.de.pkg
built/levels/fastoon/dialogue.es.pkg
built/levels/fastoon/dialogue.nl.pkg
built/levels/fastoon/dialogue.pt.pkg
built/levels/fastoon/dialogue.jp.pkg
built/levels/fastoon/dialogue.kr.pkg
built/levels/fastoon/dialogue.cn.pkg
built/levels/fastoon/dialogue.dk.pkg
built/levels/fastoon/dialogue.fi.pkg
built/levels/fastoon/dialogue.no.pkg
built/levels/fastoon/dialogue.se.pkg
built/levels/fastoon/lipsync.us.dat
built/levels/fastoon/lipsync.gb.dat
built/levels/fastoon/lipsync.fr.dat
built/levels/fastoon/lipsync.it.dat
built/levels/fastoon/lipsync.de.dat
built/levels/fastoon/lipsync.es.dat
built/levels/fastoon/lipsync.nl.dat
built/levels/fastoon/lipsync.pt.dat
built/levels/fastoon/lipsync.jp.dat
built/levels/fastoon/lipsync.kr.dat
built/levels/fastoon/lipsync.cn.dat
built/levels/fastoon/lipsync.dk.dat
built/levels/fastoon/lipsync.fi.dat
built/levels/fastoon/lipsync.no.dat
built/levels/fastoon/lipsync.se.dat
built/levels/fastoon/resident_dialogue.us.dat
built/levels/fastoon/resident_dialogue.gb.dat
built/levels/fastoon/resident_dialogue.fr.dat
built/levels/fastoon/resident_dialogue.it.dat
built/levels/fastoon/resident_dialogue.de.dat
built/levels/fastoon/resident_dialogue.es.dat
built/levels/fastoon/resident_dialogue.nl.dat
built/levels/fastoon/resident_dialogue.pt.dat
built/levels/fastoon/resident_dialogue.jp.dat
built/levels/fastoon/resident_dialogue.kr.dat
built/levels/fastoon/resident_dialogue.cn.dat
built/levels/fastoon/resident_dialogue.dk.dat
built/levels/fastoon/resident_dialogue.fi.dat
built/levels/fastoon/resident_dialogue.no.dat
built/levels/fastoon/resident_dialogue.se.dat

Re: [Request]Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2014 2:32 pm
by Gh0stBlade
chrrox wrote:you have to parse shaders.dat it contains all the information for loading the other files.
the list of files is in level_cached.toc and they need to be loaded in the order in that file.
I had a quick look and there appears to be no shader.dat in one of the levels I extracted. I am just going to assume it's all contained in main.dat but I still don't know. You're right, it is indeed a pain.

Re: [Request]Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2014 3:15 pm
by chrrox
you can tell if main.dat is the file just search for 00 02 AB 00 in hex
if it shows up everywhere that is your file.
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