Pokémon Model Ripping Project

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So what's the order to import the player characters? I remember that with Legends Arceus you had to import the base first then the head and then the rest of the body. Is it the same with Scarlet and Violet?

Also, there are two bases, cc_base, and pc_base. Which one do we use?

It's actually way less complicated for Scarlet / Violet. All you need to do is import model_pc_base / pc_base first, then perhaps p0_face0000_heroine / p0_face0000_00_face00 afterwards just to be sure, unlike Legends: Arceus the ordering doesn't matter as much because as far as I can tell, none of the models require anything other than the base skeleton file (unlike Arceus which needed the face imported first so that the eyebrows work). The cc_base file is used for the common NPCs just like it was for L:A, which are located in the "model_vr" folder. Only problem is just like with said game, they all use the same proportions and are resized in-game... and also that I need to fix that, because apparently at some point in my rewrites I've broken importing for those. Dangit!

Just make sure you switch the "Trainer model fixes" option accordingly before importing the "drs" models, or the rigging will be broken (it checks the "p1" and "p2" prefixes, and Rei and Akari have two extra bones compared to Florian and Juliana, so it'll try applying rigging to the wrong bones otherwise).

Thanks for this update, i wanted to get trainers shape keys so bad

also wanted to tell that Scarlett/SomeKitten ported time ago your script to blender and i helped her with material part, so i wanted to ask if you could add the script to the list, it works pretty fine with Pokémon models from PLA and SV (Trainers at the moment only PLA) since some people prefer to use Blender rather than 3DSMax (literally sometimes 3ds max takes like 5 minutes to load something)

Here's the addon: https://github.com/ChicoEevee/Pokemon-Sw...r-Blender/ (only works for 3.3.x)

Also dont know if you are interested in help for try to get the blend shapes/Morphs/Shapekeys in blender, i've been trying to do it this night but literally i was failing haha, it was just that.

Thanks for your work ^^

Yep, went and added that to the first post now!

I can try to explain the shapekeys / morphs a bit better later, but the important thing for those is that single-mesh vertex group morphs are stored as absolute positions immediately after the first (default) set, and the face groups store only the bare minimum necessary -- used vertex IDs (the "0th" set as I've dubbed it, there's one extra for the morphs count just for that purpose) and delta positions (original + difference = final position, in other words), and the names of which are stored in the TRMSH. The player trainers also apparently have additional morphs in the TRLTT file which I'm going to have to look into later.

Does SV use custom model normals? I'm noticing hard polygons on the face, also is it possible to make the facebase on morphs have the same name as their respective part? for example m2 on the face base mesh model is under _face_ while it should be _eyelash_ I can do it manually of course but would be good to have the normals and morphs matching

It's probably one of the other parts of the vertex buffer that determines that (I've never really done much research into how binormals or tangents work, for example). And to answer your second question, unless I hardcode replacement names for it, it'll have to be manually done, as it's pulling those names directly from the files.

Hi Newbie, I'm trying to download the SV-Trainers model pack from the thread and Windows keeps saying that there's a virus. Should I be worried about that?

Uh... There shouldn't be. It's just a bunch of assorted files, there are no executable files (infected or otherwise) included. That's the kind of thing I'd expect from Mediafire nowadays, not Mega...