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Hi,

i've got a .gr2 meshes,used in many games.

anyone know how it can be converted back to an editable format?

i speak about the granny radtoolgame o'course.

all help welcome

Not having too much of an idea about those games in question, I am always afraid to state the obvious. But do you think that this link may be somehow helpfull :

http://www.radgametools.com/

well,helpful to spend $10k to get the sdk

sdk ftp only available to customers..well all links appreciated tough

Mambox,
obviously youre right. 10K is for the much bigger guns.
Alternative I hear is reportedly Blitz3D + B3D Pipeline = $100

Anyway here is that thread, its funny in places:
http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/pos ... opic=52800

Granny 3D SDK Features

File format

* completely transparent and flexible file format
o all aspects of file format are exposed at the API level, so you can write your own Granny file readers and writers even without using the Granny API utilities for doing so
o file format is not hard-coded, so you can add your own extensions or even change it completely and use it for files other than your art assets

To me it means that any game that use Granny file version 2.x can use their own variation of the original file format. It also means that all the work you'll done to decode a .gr2 of 1 game won't necessary help you for decoding a .gr2 of another game

I once wrote a program for another game - can't remember what it was, maybe AoE3 - and I think there was a guy who figured out at least a part of the format.

edit: Yeah it was indeed Age3: This guy could load some gr2 files into 3dsmax:
http://aoe3.heavengames.com/cgi-bin/for ... =20#post21

but i'm afraid it didnt ever shared his script,copyrights probs.

any gr2 converter would be funny

He didn't do anything with the format, he just used the granny.dll to load the mesh.
http://aoe3.heavengames.com/cgi-bin/for ... 25313,,all

you're right!!!

missed it!

i'll try when gmax is installed again.

thanks!!

Did you try it?

So what about a community project to create header/lib files for the granny.dll? It's used in many games...

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Nice, uses a different approach than the granny reader above. What format do the files decompressed by this one have? Can they be read with 3DS?

I think the biggest problem is to get data back to granny format because there are probably no functions for that in the dll. The good news is that they don't really care about reversing and don't try to protect their stuff.
All functions are exported with their names and C helps us by providing the byte size of the parameters.
It has to figured out what those functions do and what parameters they want.

Rheini wrote:Did you try it?

So what about a community project to create header/lib files for the granny.dll? It's used in many games...

btw sorry to you,i've no time to test the granny in gmax,have a tons of work atm.

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I don't get your point. This function converts a granny file into some raw format, so what do you mean?