Pokémon Model Ripping Project

[Random Talking Bush]

You looked like a bit like me saying this...  Heh... I only wanted to be recognized for doing something, i think that is what everyone wants at the end...  Well, it started when I made a goal for myself, make a viewer for the XY models. Well, after some time I finished the basic viewer (didnt even knew that model had rigging at that time, it is like my 2nd try with 3d models), so after I finished the basic functionality, a friend said to me that I wouldnt be able to nake a viewer for ORAS because the format was different. This pretty much made me hunt for what changed on the new format, and after some hours my viewer was also able to work with the new format too! So I pretty much was feeling that I could be recognized for this work, be at least know at the scene, the first app to ever extract ORAS models, yay! Didnt took much until I figured out that *caham* RTB had already extracted the very same model from the ORAS demo several weeks before me... It was like a stab in the chest. But it was OK, his currently released script was only able to work with XY, and had their own problems. So, I pretty much worked on a basic GUI and some extra features for the first release, since it was just bare bones of a viewer at the time. It kinda worked for some time, but it had a small problem... the fuckin rigging... But it was very broken on RTB script at the time afaik, plus it had no support for ORAS, this, I guess, was what made ppl still use my software I think. Now, guess what? Yea, he released a script that he not only claims to extract rigged models flawlessly, but also have ORAS support. Ok, it will not take much to me and the contribution I made to be forgotten.

This made me start to rewrite the software. Without hacks. RTB script is pretty shite, first, if is a BCH script, it should open all BCHs without flaws, but well, he have separated scripts with different hacks to make them work with each game... I even tried to contact him, asking for help and trying to help him with whatever I could. But he never awsered my PMs, he just ignores, dunno why. He only awsered one and barely awsered what I said.

Sorry about that. I had so many things that I'd been working on lately that I didn't get a chance to do anything related to this topic. And don't feel as if I'm ignoring you -- I read the PMs, but I don't exactly know how I'd go about explaining what needs to be done to apply rigging for your own importer considering that yes, my script is incredibly sloppy overall and looking back it's overly complicated and hackish. And I never intended it to be a contest of sorts to see who gets things done first, I'd rather you get your own importer polished up instead.

...If you'd still like my help, I'll see what I can do to aid you (so that people don't have to use my scripts for the models).