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Posted: **Tue Jun 30, 2020 5:30 am**

I need help in fixing the Noesis Plugin for the case of .dxg models using Short instead of Float Vertices.
Using the normal Plugin I can view most of the aisp@ce dxg models after applying shakotay2's patch to the script, but unfortunately the model I want is still messed up.

Upon more investigations I found out the Vertices have different data type.
Here's an example of normal float type data:
https://imgur.com/ky4li5S

Here's an example of suspected short type data:
https://imgur.com/7tx2ZAy

From the script, the default vertBuff, normBuff and UVBuff sizes are calculated assuming the types are float

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        #indices
        self.parse_indices(mesh.numVerts, mesh)
        mesh.idxBuff = self.parse_faces(mesh.numFaces * 3)
        self.inFile.seek(startofverts)
        mesh.vertBuff = self.inFile.readBytes(numCoords * 12)
        mesh.normBuff = self.inFile.readBytes(numNorms * 12)
        mesh.uvBuff = self.inFile.readBytes(numUV * 8)

and if you look in build_mesh()

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	for i in range(mesh.numVerts):
            posIdx, normIdx, uvIdx = mesh.posList[i], mesh.normList[i], mesh.uvList[i]
            vertBuff = b''.join([vertBuff, mesh.vertBuff[posIdx * 12 : (posIdx+1) * 12]])
            normBuff = b''.join([normBuff, mesh.normBuff[normIdx * 12 : (normIdx+1) * 12]])
            uvBuff = b''.join([uvBuff, mesh.uvBuff[uvIdx * 8 : (uvIdx+1) * 8]])
            
        rapi.rpgBindPositionBuffer(vertBuff, noesis.RPGEODATA_FLOAT, 12)
        rapi.rpgBindNormalBuffer(normBuff, noesis.RPGEODATA_FLOAT, 12)
        rapi.rpgBindUV1Buffer(uvBuff, noesis.RPGEODATA_FLOAT, 8)

You can see that the RPGEODATA used for each rpgBind is FLOAT type.

I did the obvious and tried to change the Buffer size alongside RPGEODATA_FLOAT to RPGEODATA_SHORT, but the models still has messed up mesh.

Here's what I changed for each Buff:

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        mesh.vertBuff = self.inFile.readBytes(numCoords * 6)
        mesh.normBuff = self.inFile.readBytes(numNorms * 6)
        mesh.uvBuff = self.inFile.readBytes(numUV * 4)

and in build_mesh()

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	 for i in range(mesh.numVerts):
            posIdx, normIdx, uvIdx = mesh.posList[i], mesh.normList[i], mesh.uvList[i]
            vertBuff = b''.join([vertBuff, mesh.vertBuff[posIdx * 6 : (posIdx+1) * 6]])
            normBuff = b''.join([normBuff, mesh.normBuff[normIdx * 6 : (normIdx+1) * 6]])
            uvBuff = b''.join([uvBuff, mesh.uvBuff[uvIdx * 4 : (uvIdx+1) * 4]])
            
        rapi.rpgBindPositionBuffer(vertBuff, noesis.RPGEODATA_SHORT, 6)
        rapi.rpgBindNormalBuffer(normBuff, noesis.RPGEODATA_SHORT, 6)
        rapi.rpgBindUV1Buffer(uvBuff, noesis.RPGEODATA_SHORT, 4)

The logic here is that since Float XYZ take 12 bytes, a Short XYZ will only take 6 bytes. I have also tried using HALFFLOAT but still failed.

I will attach both version of the dxg model files w/ the script here:
202201_0_01_000.dxg - Float Type
202201_0_02_000.dxg - Short Type
Also, there's a memo on the dxg format done by some Japanese modder. You will need to use wordpad++ to parse the Japanese comments. I could translate the comments if you like.

dxg model.zip

May I ask what am I doing wrong? Any help would be appreciated, and thanks in advance.

Posted: **Tue Jun 30, 2020 9:03 am**

Descatal wrote: ↑Tue Jun 30, 2020 5:30 am I need help in fixing the Noesis Plugin for the case of .dxg models using Short instead of Float Vertices.
Using the normal Plugin I can view most of the aisp@ce dxg models after applying shakotay2's patch to the script, but unfortunately the model I want is still messed up.

Well, I'm not sure whether there's submeshes using shorts in 202201_0_02_000.dxg. Did you find the float submesh (start of float vertices at 0x49D4)?
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202201_0_02_000.png

In case you did not you need to care for startofverts explained here:

shakotay2 wrote: ↑Wed May 25, 2016 11:29 am

and find out how to skip the bone data sections. You have to sum up the offsets/sizes (DWORD, 10 bytes before the first FFFF of each shorts blocks):
0x2b78, 47c,2ce,31c,48e,3c0,3cc,2aa,382,B4 -> 0x4944, plus "starting" offset: 0x68, plus 10x4 for size of offsets to get the 0x49D4.

(In case you did: the shorts you mentioned maybe part of facial animation data, whatever.)

Posted: **Tue Jun 30, 2020 12:26 pm**

Thanks for the reply. I did not consider those, so pointing to the correct start offset fixed it. Thank you.

As for the mesh, is there any reason why it is "missing" a few sections?

Posted: **Tue Jun 30, 2020 1:44 pm**

From the point cloud it looks complete using 651 vertices:
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face.png

You'll need to dig into the script to see how the faces are built.

Posted: **Wed Jul 01, 2020 3:25 am**

Sorry I am not very well versed in 3D stuff, but what I can understand is that the number of vertex is stored in the numCoords variable and used to calculate the vertBuff size. I tried to do the calculations myself but the buffer stops halfway through the sea of float vertices.

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        self.inFile.read('4L')
        meshSize = self.inFile.readUInt()
        numCoords, numNorms, numUV, null = self.inFile.read('4H')
        self.inFile.read('2L')
        mesh.numVerts, mesh.numFaces = self.inFile.read('2H')
        self.inFile.read('2L')
        sectionSize = self.inFile.readUInt()
        #offs= self.inFile.tell()
        #startofverts= sectionSize+offs        

        #indices
        self.parse_indices(mesh.numVerts, mesh)
        mesh.idxBuff = self.parse_faces(mesh.numFaces * 3)
        self.inFile.seek(0x49D4)
        mesh.vertBuff = self.inFile.readBytes(numCoords * 12)
        mesh.normBuff = self.inFile.readBytes(numNorms * 12)
        mesh.uvBuff = self.inFile.readBytes(numUV * 8)

May I see the values you put into MeshExtractor? Thanks for helping again

Posted: **Wed Jul 01, 2020 8:00 am**

202201_0_02_000-dxg.png

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