Pokémon Model Ripping Project

[gdkchan]

 animations should work in blender now

Thanks! They seem to be working fine in Blender now.
SuMo Eevee is the only one I've found with issues; it's animations just made it twitch oddly. After experimenting with Blender's import options, I've noticed that:
Selecting "Find Bone Chains" & "Auto Connect" made an improvement, but the tail bones were missing.
Selecting "Fix leaf bones", in addition to the above, brought back the tail but made the ear bones disappear.
Other models seem fine, not sure what's up with 'Vee.

In which file is the Eevee model located?

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I've been investigating issues with the models, and one of the broken Pokémon models on OR/AS/X/Y was Koffing. It looked like this:

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The Pokémon looks OK actually but the smoke effect is all messed up. The same problem also affects other Pokémon like Cosmog on Sun/Moon. At some point I decided that adding "hacks" on the shader to make specific effects for different Pokémon work was not feasible, so I just decided to translate the original game shaders (they are compiled into PICA GPU machine code) to GLSL (OpenGL Shading Language). Writing the translator was not too complicated, but took a few days, and theres still a lot of work to be done, but with the original shader translated to GLSL, I got way better results:

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https://gfycat.com/PolishedFoolhardyBordercollie

As a bonus, projected shadows started to show up correctly with the shaders aswell. By analysing the shader code, we can solve the mistery:

- On the messed up geometry on the model, each triangle going trough the Pokémon needs to have all its 3 vertices treated as individual points. The geometry shader will use the position of each point to create a square sprite quad. So, basically they are point sprites.
- The vertex shader calculates the position of each point on the quad, and they are also "billboarded", which means that they will always face the camera.
- Each PC Pokémon model contains 2 meshes. One is the normal, high poly Pokémon. The other is a low poly version without textures, that are projected on the ground with some shader aswell to create the shadow effect.

Now the work continues to clean up the mess I just made on the code after the new shader implementation and fixing possible regressions, and after that supporting shaders on Sun/Moon aswell (finding them on all those nameless files will be reaaaally boring). For those using the models to create fan games or just playing around, I think the shaders may be of some help, so I'll try exposing a option to export them as GLSL shaders later. I also hope that this is of some help to someone ripping this Pokémon model.