(06-18-2022, 10:59 PM)JamesO2 Wrote:

(06-16-2022, 03:22 AM)Alvare Wrote: Nice job on obtaining Majora's Mask's files and getting the colors to look and work correctly.
You'll notice how some of MM's environments look more detailed than Oot3D's.

Btw, I didn't have the MM files for a while. Had it some time ago after searching for hours and found it somewhere in a YouTube comment.
Anyway, I have them again as well now, using the tools you mentioned. 
You need the original cia files without decryption and don't have weird folder / file names. Some extractors can't read " ' " symbols too.

I'm working on a pretty huge MM ripping project.

So far I've ripped just about every "exterior" area in the game and given them plain English names to make them easier to work with. I haven't started on interiors like shops and dungeons yet.



There are 318 "scene" models in the game. Some of them are just empty dummy files with a single triangle, and most of them are the game's dungeons (each room in a dungeon is exported to a separate DAE model).

I couldn't find any solid information for translations of all the filenames, so I had to load them all one-by-one myself to figure it out. I wrote it all down here for anyone else's convenience so they don't have to go through all that work:

• https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GJhEUT6deJRxYG2wpkITJwb_N6XZX4v57w6qQuxv6Zc/edit?usp=sharing
  

Its a spreadsheet list of every area in the game, along with English names, grouped into categories roughly in the order you encounter these areas in the game.

I've set up my own naming convention and been tracking progress on what I have/haven't ripped, as well as notes about issues from ripping (like certain areas are missing textures, etc). The lines with green checkmarks are areas that I've dumped into DAE so far, and the yellow lines are ones that I haven't gotten to yet.

I also included a list of all the useful links, programs, etc that I collected from various threads. There's some notes about the ripping/converting process, but some of the notes are only useful to me specifically (or reference custom scripts I wrote). I'll make these scripts public eventually, but I frequently modify them so often that I wouldn't be able to keep track of changes.

I've written python scripts (for both inside Blender and outside of Blender) to help better organize things.

1. One is an auto-importer that lets you "one-click" import multiple DAE files all at once (such as all of the parts of a dungeon, or Clock Town, etc) and it even auto-sorts them into their own Collection and parents to an Empty.
   
2. A script to fix the "bones" (any objects that are out of place) positions using the CMB Viewer's TXT dump data.
   
3. A bunch of scripts for fixing the vertex color, applying water shaders, alpha textures for trees, etc.
   

If anyone wants a copy of a script, just message me.

EDIT: @Alvare - I did notice that the vertex alpha blending doesn't seem to be preserved when importing into Blender 3.0 -- which is really strange because this version of Blender definitely 100% does support vertex color alpha channel (I've used it in other projects before). So I'm not sure what is going wrong there, I'll have to investigate it further later. Its possible the data is still there in the Blend file, but I just need to figure out some specific node arrangement -- or its possible Blender 3.0 is just ignoring the alpha and not importing it from the start. Not sure.

(06-19-2023, 01:55 AM)MithosKuu Wrote: Hey James, your spreadsheet is a ton of help, but do you have any idea why the boss rooms seem to be missing? I assume they would be the bs_0_info files but they dont seem to have any geo, and I noticed noclip doesn't have the boss rooms either

(07-12-2023, 03:00 PM)dalek_kolt Wrote: long shot, does anyone know if Tears of the Kingdom uses any FMVs?
because I've been looking for Ganondorf's unicorn in the game files and I can't find anything (trimmed)

(07-17-2023, 06:39 AM)Hybryda Wrote:

so much work for one gazebo, from HW AoC... now to figure out how to submit models to archive (if there is interest in AoC content)
edit:
also did two more, tho I'm only 90% sure I matched textures correctly


but it's great to at least have mostly right lab from AoC (I'm not sure about some woods and columns, as this place is only in cutscenes)
oh and a random house bc why not

(07-12-2023, 08:37 AM)Hybryda Wrote: did a lot more models and here's a catch, probably problem with dae/fbx imports (the axis are not the same, the bones are messed up)

as long as it's only one axis of rotation, the placements is perfect, I go into the game and checked and it looks about right, but more than one and it's a bit off, (or a lot off) I suspect that both rotation and position are for root bone and with messed armature not much can be done, at least I can't. So no map of Hateno os springs any time soon :<

(07-20-2023, 10:56 AM)JamesO2 Wrote:

(07-12-2023, 08:37 AM)Hybryda Wrote: did a lot more models and here's a catch, probably problem with dae/fbx imports (the axis are not the same, the bones are messed up)

as long as it's only one axis of rotation, the placements is perfect, I go into the game and checked and it looks about right, but more than one and it's a bit off, (or a lot off) I suspect that both rotation and position are for root bone and with messed armature not much can be done, at least I can't. So no map of Hateno os springs any time soon :<

I'm curious about how the terrain clipping is handled in the actual game (BotW, or AoC, or TotK). Would you happen to know?
What I mean is that you can see from your pic here that the terrain heightmap mesh clips through the cliffs (which I assume were separately modeled by hand by some artist). But from what I remember in the game, I don't recall seeing the terrain clip so egregiously. I wonder if there is some code in the game that causes the terrain mesh to "meld" together with cliff meshes so they look seamless?
I found an example of what I'm talking about, but its someone creating this mesh melding effect using Unreal Engine: https://imgur.com/gallery/M1nTsoG

I'm curious because I'm trying to do a similar thing, but in Blender. I want to reduce mesh clipping and have more seamless looking terrain.

Quote:(it would be faster if I could get it into some spreadsheet format and just filter, but I don't know how to do THAT)

(07-20-2023, 11:32 AM)JamesO2 Wrote: I'm pretty sure there is a spreadsheet view in Blender somehow. I think I've seen it before, but I can't remember where. I'll have to look into it.

(07-20-2023, 11:32 AM)JamesO2 Wrote: And here's a cheaper, but more manual process that does similar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6auecD4Rhx4