Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 .DAT

[Acewell]

I don't have this game so i downloaded the deadpool_1702.pak sample from here
http://zenhax.com/viewtopic.php?p=2133#p2133
and extracted contents from the pak with daemon1's tool and i made a new script still incomplete but will open most of the igz textures as they were extracted from the pak.
i'm having difficulty with the format id of each texture so only a couple won't open.

script removed see this post
viewtopic.php?p=118479#p118479

leave the original igz intact because it contains some header info needed for the texture to display with right width and height.

[pechenko121]

I don't have this game so i downloaded the deadpool_1702.pak sample from here
http://zenhax.com/viewtopic.php?p=2133#p2133
and extracted contents from the pak with daemon1's tool and i made a new script still incomplete but will open most of the igz textures as they were extracted from the pak.
i'm having difficulty with the format id of each texture so only a couple won't open.

tex_MarvelUltimateAlliance2_igz.zip

leave the original igz intact because it contains some header info needed for the texture to display with right width and height.

Gonna give it a try a bit later this day, thank you

[pechenko121]

I don't have this game so i downloaded the deadpool_1702.pak sample from here
http://zenhax.com/viewtopic.php?p=2133#p2133
and extracted contents from the pak with daemon1's tool and i made a new script still incomplete but will open most of the igz textures as they were extracted from the pak.
i'm having difficulty with the format id of each texture so only a couple won't open.

tex_MarvelUltimateAlliance2_igz.zip

leave the original igz intact because it contains some header info needed for the texture to display with right width and height.

So i gave it a try. Some textures opened correctly. But some of them looks like this:


And for some textures it gave me an error:

[pechenko121]

most of the normals i tried looks like this:


i can upload more archieves if needed.

[daemon1]

I used Luigi's igz extract script

Where can I get this script?

[pechenko121]

I used Luigi's igz extract script

Where can I get this script?

Code: Select all

endian big
idstring "IGZ\x01"
get FILES long
for i = 0 < FILES
    get DUMMY long
    get NAME_OFF long
    get OFFSET long
    get SIZE long
    log "" OFFSET SIZE
next i

[Acewell]

here is version 2 of the igz texture script

tex_MarvelUltimateAlliance2_igz.zip

it turned out to be a different 8 byte hash representing the 3 formats used
supports dxt1, dxt5, ati2
this one should work for all of the igz textures, let me know if not

[pechenko121]

here is version 2 of the igz texture script

tex_MarvelUltimateAlliance2_igz.zip

it turned out to be a different 8 byte hash representing the 3 formats used
supports dxt1, dxt5, ati2
this one should work for all of the igz textures, let me know if not

everything is fine now, thank you

[IAmTheClayman]

Hey all, very new to this so forgive me if this is a simple question. I'm haveing trouble just using HexToOBJ to convert the dat files to 2d models. I've been trying it out on 1101.igz (Black Panther) and used the script pechenko provided to convert to .dat files (5 of them, although most are empty/useless). But I'm just banging my head against it trying to extract the mesh. Does anybody know something I might be missing?

[Acewell]

Can you share this 1101.igz sample you're working with? We can tell you for sure what you need to do

edit
ah wait, are you working with the MUA PC version files?
http://zenhax.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2830
i haven't looked at any of those yet, they might be different to the 360 files

[Rutabaga]

Well,can you take a look in this file format for PC version?
Samples here: https://mega.nz/#!CgAAVQiD!nc6Ttc-nEtCI ... Mi8xTs9tHs
Thanks in advance!

[IAmTheClayman]

Can you share this 1101.igz sample you're working with? We can tell you for sure what you need to do

edit
ah wait, are you working with the MUA PC version files?
http://zenhax.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2830
i haven't looked at any of those yet, they might be different to the 360 files

Thanks so much! At work atm but I'll share it soon as I'm home. Since the igz is a compressed file type is it okay for me to just attach it to a post? Don't want to break forum conduct

[IAmTheClayman]

Alright, folder at the link below has the original 1101.igz and the 6 .dat files it was broken up into by pechenko's QuickBMS script

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/414 ... anther.zip

[Acewell]

thanks for the samples guys!
first submesh of BlackPanther 00000003.dat

BlackPanther_00000003_dat.png

it looks like the differences are the endianness, float UVs instead of half-float and the FVF size
if someone was to make a plugin for these models it might be best to leave the
igz file intact instead of splitting it into dat files to keep header info with the model data.

[IAmTheClayman]

thanks for the samples guys!
first submesh of BlackPanther 00000003.dat

BlackPanther_00000003_dat.png

it looks like the differences are the endianness, float UVs instead of half-float and the FVF size
if someone was to make a plugin for these models it might be best to leave the
igz file intact instead of splitting it into dat files to keep header info with the model data.

Any chance you might be able to explain your methodology? How you knew to use vertex block mode, first vertex address, etc? Also why does the mesh appear to have holes in the face?

But seriously, thank you for showing this off! Reassuring to know that I was right about the start address and vertex count, so I can't be too far off

EDIT: Got it to produce the same result using 1101.igz!!!

BlackPanterHexToObjResult.png

Still confused about the gap in the mesh though. Also why would the cape, belt, boots etc not be included? Are those also contained in this same .igz but starting at a later address? For example, there is a similar of little endian hex value face indices at 0x068DA4.