Pokémon Model Ripping Project

[Random Talking Bush]

By the way, something I've noticed with the Meloetta model is that there is some unnecessary bones. For example there's some on the end of normal bone chains and also one flying in the middle of nowhere (but that one might be my fault.) Also, even though the bones are set up, it might be a problem only I am facing, but the bones lack weighting. I know you probably haven't figured out how to decipher that, and I must give credit that you got this far with the model structure, but it would help people working with the model if the bones were weighted (although I know it's not your responsibility and I respect that).

1. Yeah, there are a lot of unnecessary bones, basically everything with "End" at the beginning. I've left them there for completeness's sake.

2. Which of the models were you importing -- the FBX, DAE or SMD? And which program? Either way, try one of the other files if one doesn't work with the program you use, because they should have the rigging information, too (I never submit models without rigging, unless it's a prop in the first place).

I used the DAE.
The extra bones don't really distract me that much and if they are not necessary, the end user can just delete them.

And the model does have bones, so technically it is rigged sort of, but there is no weighting. For example if you rotate a bone on the model, it doesn't I.e. rotate the arm. You see, in order to make the model itself respond to the bones, the individual vertexes have to be linked to the bone in what's known as weighting. (I'm sorry if you already know this, but I just wanted to make sure). The problem with the model is there is no weighting data, so I can't really pose the model. (Now that I think of it, possibly it was lost somewhere in my great conversion scheme to this format nobody uses, but actually someone should just check the model to be sure.)

Ah, DAE tends to be a finicky format (I tagged with "ColladaMax" as that's the one that seems to work the best... for 3DS Max, at least). If you can, try the FBX file. Or try using Noesis to convert that into a DAE and see how that works.