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Instructions:
* Place ripper.exe where .A, .B, and .C files are.
* Run ripper.exe.
* Wait for a while.
* Locate LWO files.
* Locate appropriate textures.
* Convert textures to TGA using Photoshop.
* Move TGA files to where LWO is.
* Open LWO in LightWave.
* Texturing is automatic; if it asks where textures are, point to same directory and voila.

Example:
* The following picture below, her LWOs are in LINKDATA_A/0400 directory. Her textures are in LINKDATA_A/0896 directory.
* Remember, all tits need to be reoriented lol.

Notes:
* Character models are in pieces.
* Tits are not oriented correctly.
* You will have to transfer all tits to Maya or Max to reorient; LW does not rotate vertex normals along with geometry.
* Hair also typically has to be moved, but not reoriented, to the right place as well.
* Geometry with cloth physics are not implemented.
* No bones yet. Has UV, normals, weights. Too lazy to do bones right now.
* No level geometry yet; those are located in G1E files.
* G1M files contain characters, props, ships, and skyboxes; that's what you get.
* There is also LOD geometry in the files, you can recognize them because they do not have UVs.

omg..u are awesome xD

Thank you howfie, Nice job on this one.

no problem. you guys are welcome, enjoy. it's too bad nami's skirt is cloth and is thus missing. i don't think they use this technique, but one day if I have some more time I'll read it lol.

howfie wrote:it's too bad nami's skirt is cloth and is thus missing.

How unfortunate indeed.

You make it sound like seeing a skirtless girl with her panties exposed is a bad thing har har har.

aweeeeeeeeeeeesome

Infortunatly its imposible found this game.

How did you know lightwave was my favorite 3D app ;-D

No more OBJ importing/exporting

Also, if you want to use the .DDS images in LW you could use this plugin, it's a D3D exporter for LW but you can load only the DDS.p file and get DDS image support:

http://www.dstorm.co.jp/dsproducts/Free ... xport.html

actually, i have been aware of that dstorm plugin for many years now, but I thought it didn't work with anything greater than LW9. a lot of people on the newtek forums have complained about it. there is also this one as well. when i get home in a few days i will check it out and if it works well i will change the TGA requirement in the next release. you can also load the lwos in a hex editor and do a replace all... replace .tga with .dds.

hi, thanks for this tutorial.
I have a problem: '.lwo' are pieces of characters and it's ok, I can open them but...about the textures? How can I open them? I think them are the '.g1m' files but I really don't know how to open. You say that I have to use photoshop but it never can open those kind of files, so I tryed to use texture finder but I can't found the true settings.
Can you help me?
thanks in advance.

P.S.= I use photoshop CS6

textures are dds files; g1m files are game model files (m = model)

install NVIDIA DDS plugin for photoshop
http://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-text ... -photoshop

open up DDS files in photoshop

for each image, Shift + Ctrl + S to save as

save as tga

put tgas where lwo file is at

howfie wrote:textures are dds files; g1m files are game model files (m = model)

install NVIDIA DDS plugin for photoshop
http://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-text ... -photoshop

open up DDS files in photoshop

for each image, Shift + Ctrl + S to save as

save as tga

put tgas where lwo file is at

and where are those dds files?
I just have folder like '406' but there are just '.lwo' and '.g1m'
Maybe this is because I extracted just 'LINKDATA.A'
But that's what appear when I open the game folder: PS3_GAME>USIDIR>LINKDATA_PS3 and there is just the '.A' files...where are the '.B' and '.C' files?
thanks in advance for the reply.

P.S.= searching better I found that the folders after 1000 contain dds files, so have I to search the right folder for every character? or am I doing something wrong?

the game has B and C files; if yours does not have it, you probably didn't extract the game right. or if you downloaded it, you downloaded a bad rip. most textures are in the C file.

There should be 6000+ dds files. You have a bad rip.