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Releases / Battle model > Field model Conversion FINALLY!!
« on: 2005-12-08 23:40:07 »
Jinrei: Look here, you can find file names in this thread: http://forums.qhimm.com/viewtopic.php?p=62916
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Troubleshooting / Biturn problems...
« on: 2005-12-06 09:38:42 »
Yes Aaron is right, as far as we know it is not possible to convert models back TO ff7, with none of the programs.
You can use Alhexx's Ultima to modify the existing ff7 models (you can change position of vertices and colours of the vertices if i remember correctly, please correct me if I'm wrong)
Yes Biturn is reading MS3D files little incorrectly, I know, its an old bug, and I have no time to fix it.
Be sure to look here: http://forums.qhimm.com/viewtopic.php?t=4351
Also you could look into http://forums.qhimm.com/viewtopic.php?t=4045 to read how are the guys doing their work.
You can use Alhexx's Ultima to modify the existing ff7 models (you can change position of vertices and colours of the vertices if i remember correctly, please correct me if I'm wrong)
Yes Biturn is reading MS3D files little incorrectly, I know, its an old bug, and I have no time to fix it.
Be sure to look here: http://forums.qhimm.com/viewtopic.php?t=4351
Also you could look into http://forums.qhimm.com/viewtopic.php?t=4045 to read how are the guys doing their work.
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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / Getting started with .lzs
« on: 2005-11-16 12:47:31 »
Read more about compression here http://www.sylphds.net/f2k3/docs/lzs.txt in ficedula's document. This should help you understand it. If it won't come back and ask more, but only after trying.
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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / Image Color Depths
« on: 2005-11-14 10:17:31 »
Bitmap_GrayAlpha88, // 2 bytes / pixel
Bitmap_RGB565, // 2 bytes / pixel
Bitmap_RGB555, // 2 bytes / pixel
Bitmap_BGR565, // 2 bytes / pixel
Bitmap_BGR555, // 2 bytes / pixel
Bitmap_RGBA5551, // 2 bytes / pixel
Bitmap_BGRA5551, // 2 bytes / pixel
Bitmap_BGRA5551_Aflip, // 2 bytes / pixel alpha flipped (needed for TGA)
Bitmap_BGRA4444, // 2 bytes / pixel
Bitmap_RGB888, // 3 bytes / pixel
Bitmap_BGR888, // 3 bytes / pixel (needed for BMP)
Bitmap_RGBA8888, // 4 bytes / pixel
Bitmap_BGRA8888, // 4 bytes / pixel
Bitmap_ARGB8888, // 4 bytes / pixel (needed for TXMP)
These are formats I use in Biturn bitmap lib. In these formats were stored files I encountered so far ( if i don't count DXT and RLE encodings ).
When I was trying to use PNGlib ( http://libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html ) I found an example pictures somewhere in the archives. They are stored in various pixel depths, check them out.
Bitmap_RGB565, // 2 bytes / pixel
Bitmap_RGB555, // 2 bytes / pixel
Bitmap_BGR565, // 2 bytes / pixel
Bitmap_BGR555, // 2 bytes / pixel
Bitmap_RGBA5551, // 2 bytes / pixel
Bitmap_BGRA5551, // 2 bytes / pixel
Bitmap_BGRA5551_Aflip, // 2 bytes / pixel alpha flipped (needed for TGA)
Bitmap_BGRA4444, // 2 bytes / pixel
Bitmap_RGB888, // 3 bytes / pixel
Bitmap_BGR888, // 3 bytes / pixel (needed for BMP)
Bitmap_RGBA8888, // 4 bytes / pixel
Bitmap_BGRA8888, // 4 bytes / pixel
Bitmap_ARGB8888, // 4 bytes / pixel (needed for TXMP)
These are formats I use in Biturn bitmap lib. In these formats were stored files I encountered so far ( if i don't count DXT and RLE encodings ).
When I was trying to use PNGlib ( http://libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html ) I found an example pictures somewhere in the archives. They are stored in various pixel depths, check them out.
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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / Xeno-gears
« on: 2005-11-10 07:40:42 »
Nice 
( although I have no idea about Xenogears )
( although I have no idea about Xenogears )
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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / Need some help
« on: 2005-11-10 07:34:05 »
I don't think it is a problem, it is not a first time we are discussing programming not related to the FF.
Problem is that there are not many VB programmers around here. It'd be better if you would try the forum mentioned in RPGillespie's post.
Problem is that there are not many VB programmers around here. It'd be better if you would try the forum mentioned in RPGillespie's post.
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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / 3d drawing order
« on: 2005-11-08 10:25:35 »
Still not enough input. What should be usage of that angle ? Why should it be negative ?
Also, there are tons of math algorithms on the net, try to google for them (aproximate name should be sufficient for google).
Also, there are tons of math algorithms on the net, try to google for them (aproximate name should be sufficient for google).
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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / 3d drawing order
« on: 2005-11-07 09:22:17 »
I don't get it, what do you want to get as a result ?
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General Discussion / Why can't I get past this bloody button thing!
« on: 2005-11-07 09:16:37 »
Nighthawk: that's not depending on the file format, but on the set compression. JPG could be of the same size, and that PNG can be 10x smaller, depends on compression you set.
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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / Render error
« on: 2005-11-04 07:07:08 »
If by 'rendering' you mean that you render them through your engine, then it could be caused by issuing wrong UV texcoords to the vertices. Maybe you adress them from some incorrect memory which is changing, and that's why they are moving.
Things like this probably do not happen by switching some 3d effect in OpenGl.
Things like this probably do not happen by switching some 3d effect in OpenGl.
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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / 3d drawing order
« on: 2005-10-31 08:03:14 »
Hehe we are absolutely off topic with this assembly stuff guys !! But it could be done also like this: 
I hope there is stosdw, I don't remember this anymore.
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mov cx, 4B000h
mov ax, ptr pVal
mov di, ax
push ds
pop es
mov eax, 80BFh
rep stosdwI hope there is stosdw, I don't remember this anymore.
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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / 3d drawing order
« on: 2005-10-30 07:33:38 »
L.Spiro: I think that everything you said is allright, except the
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memset( g_fZBuffer, 0x000080BF, sizeof( FLOAT ) * 640 * 480 ); .. because I think that memset() casts 2nd parameter to unsigned char usually, so it won't help you to set the floats, I would use the for() loop instead:Code: [Select]
int i; float g_fZBuffer[ 640*480 ];
for( i=0; i<640*480; i++ )
g_fZBuffer[ i ] = -1.0;
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Archive / I can't even install the game - HELP
« on: 2005-10-28 22:11:28 »
no no no, this is some common windows problem ... try google for the error message, you just have to re-enable something or overwrite some file in windows ... I had something like this before.
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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / Getting FFX models onto your pc!
« on: 2005-10-23 19:54:51 »
I'd say they are in ff7's .TEX format, as all other ff7 textures.
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FF7 Tools / FF7 models to 3ds Max
« on: 2005-10-22 15:54:34 »
How do you load the model into the Blender ? What file format are you using ?
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FF7 Tools / FF7 models to 3ds Max
« on: 2005-10-21 16:55:20 »
Nanotechmonkey: 3DS has nothing with extracting of the files.
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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / Getting FFX models onto your pc!
« on: 2005-10-21 16:38:10 »
You bet it won't be similair, there is only chance that it will be easy to hack 
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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / Getting FFX models onto your pc!
« on: 2005-10-21 12:22:17 »
Nice !
But as usuall to yaz0r, this is again viewer only and it won't support exporting option.
But as usuall to yaz0r, this is again viewer only and it won't support exporting option.
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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / Animation using OpenGL
« on: 2005-10-21 12:14:29 »Quote
My engine interpolates already and I have found problems when playing animations where Squaresoft took shortcuts.Yup mine interpolates too and I saw some problems aswell.
But this shortcut you're talking about is no bad thing. why to have 24 frames to do the cycle when 6 is enough. If you want to interpolate thing that was not meant for it either redo the animation or find another way.
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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / Animation using OpenGL
« on: 2005-10-19 09:23:23 »
Nehe's tutorials are quite good IMO.
Few things ... first if you draw on timer you should check if you have already ended drawing on last frame ... because sometimes drawing can take you more than 1/24 of second.
Then some animations are easy, because each frame is set of vertice positions. So you only render model with new vertex data.
Some animations are tougher, because they are done by bone rotations.
Some are even tougher because they are done by bone rotations and bone-vertex weight maps.
I don't remember the OpenGl code too much though, but maybe this will give you some idea, it is code from Leviathan to display bones from the model:
Few things ... first if you draw on timer you should check if you have already ended drawing on last frame ... because sometimes drawing can take you more than 1/24 of second.
Then some animations are easy, because each frame is set of vertice positions. So you only render model with new vertex data.
Some animations are tougher, because they are done by bone rotations.
Some are even tougher because they are done by bone rotations and bone-vertex weight maps.
I don't remember the OpenGl code too much though, but maybe this will give you some idea, it is code from Leviathan to display bones from the model:
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void CF7BwDlg::GlDisplayBoneChildren( int bone_parent )
{
int b;
float f;
for( b=0; b<skelet.bones; b++ )
if (( skelet.bone[ b ].parent == bone_parent ) &&
( skelet.bone[ b ].displayed == false )) {
glPushMatrix();
glRotatef( skelet.bone[ b ].roty, 0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f );
glRotatef( skelet.bone[ b ].rotx, 1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f );
glRotatef( skelet.bone[ b ].rotz, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f );
//displaying skeleton
glBegin( GL_TRIANGLES );
f = skelet.bone[ b ].length / 10;
glColor3f( 1.0f, 0.8f, 0.8f );
glVertex3f( f, 0.0f, 0.0f );
glColor3f( 0.8f, 1.0f, 0.8f );
glVertex3f( -f, 0.0f, 0.0f );
glColor3f( 1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f );
glVertex3f( 0.0f, 0.0f, skelet.bone[ b ].length );
glColor3f( 0.8f, 1.0f, 0.8f );
glVertex3f( -f, 0.0f, 0.0f );
glColor3f( 0.8f, 0.8f, 1.0f );
glVertex3f( 0.0f, f, 0.0f );
glColor3f( 1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f );
glVertex3f( 0.0f, 0.0f, skelet.bone[ b ].length );
glColor3f( 0.8f, 0.8f, 1.0f );
glVertex3f( 0.0f, f, 0.0f );
glColor3f( 1.0f, 0.8f, 0.8f );
glVertex3f( f, 0.0f, 0.0f );
glColor3f( 1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f );
glVertex3f( 0.0f, 0.0f, skelet.bone[ b ].length );
glEnd();
skelet.bone[ b ].displayed = true;
glTranslatef( 0.0f, 0.0f, skelet.bone[ b ].length );
GlDisplayBoneChildren( b );
glPopMatrix();
}
}
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Archive / ff8 models
« on: 2005-10-18 08:29:46 »
Sorry to dissapoint you, but no, models are not compatible at all. Also the technology used is completly different (ff8 uses texture covered models).
And no, there is no way to convert anything event ff8 to ff7 models so far.
And no, there is no way to convert anything event ff8 to ff7 models so far.
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Archive / Help with monster data
« on: 2005-10-18 08:21:41 »
Hi, now it comes to my mind that you can view such info in Leviathan too, here is a screenshot, look into upper-left corner. You can download it here.
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Archive / 3 general Tweaking questions...
« on: 2005-10-17 08:01:45 »
No idea I don't do such things, better if someone from the patch guys answer this.
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Archive / 3 general Tweaking questions...
« on: 2005-10-16 16:29:50 »
See its easy. You want to find the files for Bugenhagen - you find him in the list, there is note: Bugenhagen 2 - Normal (gwcc) for example.
So you go to the file 'gwcc.hrc', open it with notepat - it is a text file. Inside you see list of the .rsd files which are needed for the model. And inside every .rsd file you see list of files needed for the body part.
Simplier, if you sort the files by the name, files from one .hrc file to another .hrc file belong to the one model. For example files from 'aaaa' to 'aagb' do belong to Cloud (if i remember correctly). Files from 'aagb' to another hrc do belong to Tifa.
Its even easier in Battle models. See the list, for example:
bc Hedgehog Pie
bd Smogger
so all files starting on 'bc' (for example 'bcaa', 'bcab', 'bcac' .... ) belong to Hedgehog Pie model, and all files starting on 'bd' ( 'bdaa', 'bdab', 'bdac' ) belong to Smogger model.
So you go to the file 'gwcc.hrc', open it with notepat - it is a text file. Inside you see list of the .rsd files which are needed for the model. And inside every .rsd file you see list of files needed for the body part.
Simplier, if you sort the files by the name, files from one .hrc file to another .hrc file belong to the one model. For example files from 'aaaa' to 'aagb' do belong to Cloud (if i remember correctly). Files from 'aagb' to another hrc do belong to Tifa.
Its even easier in Battle models. See the list, for example:
bc Hedgehog Pie
bd Smogger
so all files starting on 'bc' (for example 'bcaa', 'bcab', 'bcac' .... ) belong to Hedgehog Pie model, and all files starting on 'bd' ( 'bdaa', 'bdab', 'bdac' ) belong to Smogger model.
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Archive / 3 general Tweaking questions...
« on: 2005-10-15 14:28:29 »Quote
and thanks a bunch for the huuge list MirexDon't thank me, its not my work, it was done by someone else (dunno who).
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Oh I forgot to ask, but Mirex, would you happen to have a list of the battle.lpg files too?mine - http://mirex.mypage.sk/FILES/monsters.txt
alhexx's - http://www.alhexx.com/descriptions/other/battle_database.txt
those two letters starting the line are first two letters of the files in the archive
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How did you find out what each of them do anyway?? can you actually view them somehow...?Yea by viewing them probably
There are few viewers available on the net, I will ofcourse promote mine Biturn and also see this thread with list of other software: Compilation of Programs