03-18-2011, 04:04 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-18-2011, 04:06 PM by mariokart64n.)
donno why you keep giving people links to fanfurry's blog. some may mistake that information and think its for a model converter/viewer.
the information is useless to people without a background in programming. his posts are cryptic even for me, and I have previous experience on reading models from binary data.
also, fanfurrys methods are somewhat unconventional. he takes the data from the game's savestate. so the data he's describing could be a different data type, or located in random place in the savestate. usually a ps2 RAM save is 50mb, zlib compressed.
and if it was me, I would target the PS3 port of GOW, I'm not sure if the models were upgraded. but the textures would be
cause on the ps2, even if you successed in getting the geometry, lol good luck getting the textures. ps2 uses palette based texture formats. ps3 would use more mainstream formats. like dds or tga.
oh, and noesis should open SC4 models, though if you get your hands on the PSP models, those would be more usable.. the 360/ps3 ones require alot of TLC... <_< notice how they're always depicted black and white in noeisis.. yeah you'd need to colour them manually. I putout a guide on setting them up in max, but even still you would need to bake the entire model, in order to re-use it anywhere else.
the information is useless to people without a background in programming. his posts are cryptic even for me, and I have previous experience on reading models from binary data.
also, fanfurrys methods are somewhat unconventional. he takes the data from the game's savestate. so the data he's describing could be a different data type, or located in random place in the savestate. usually a ps2 RAM save is 50mb, zlib compressed.
and if it was me, I would target the PS3 port of GOW, I'm not sure if the models were upgraded. but the textures would be
cause on the ps2, even if you successed in getting the geometry, lol good luck getting the textures. ps2 uses palette based texture formats. ps3 would use more mainstream formats. like dds or tga.
oh, and noesis should open SC4 models, though if you get your hands on the PSP models, those would be more usable.. the 360/ps3 ones require alot of TLC... <_< notice how they're always depicted black and white in noeisis.. yeah you'd need to colour them manually. I putout a guide on setting them up in max, but even still you would need to bake the entire model, in order to re-use it anywhere else.
