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Switch Rips with no Rigs
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I personally don't have ripping experience but quite a few of my friends do and are curious about this. 
How come Luigi's Mansion 3 models can't have their rig ripped? Everything else goes fine like mesh and textures. This is the only game I've seen had this issue, and I was hoping someone would possibly have input on this. Thanks!
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The reason why Luigi's Mansion 3 doesn't export with rigging is because it's a proprietary format (and therefore not BFRES like most other Nintendo-made Switch games), and as such only has partial support in Switch Toolbox.
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(03-03-2020, 04:40 PM)Random Talking Bush Wrote: The reason why Luigi's Mansion 3 doesn't export with rigging is because it's a proprietary format (and therefore not BFRES like most other Nintendo-made Switch games), and as such only has partial support in Switch Toolbox.
Is Switch Toolbox the only ripping tool there is, or is there a theoretical program that could read the LM3 files properly?


Thanks for the answer tho
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Afaik the one who did the heavy lifting for the formats used by Next Level Games is https://github.com/TheFearsomeDzeraora
They did some work on LM2 and apparently have a repo for LM3 too but it seems to be private. The Switch Toolbox used their research to add basic support for LM3 https://github.com/KillzXGaming/Switch-T...ICT.cs#L15

So yeah looks like they "only" figured out models and textures for now. I don't know if they plan to do more. If nobody works on the game I plan to reverse skeletons/animations at some point but it won't be before months, already have lots to do.
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