Pokémon Model Ripping Project

[DarkShinyGiratina]

Hi! I've never done this before, how do you get the Pokemon models to load in with color (SV models, if it matters)? They load in just white for me. I tried using the Multitexture plugin and dragging the dds files to basic color map, but that only kind of worked. For Clodsire, for example, the bottom had color and the spikes did but the top was all black. Importing on Blender, I can't even seem to get the model at all, and I just get a bunch of dots that kind of make up the shape of the model, and I get an error saying PNGs aren't found. Do I need to convert the DDS files to PNGs to see the models on Blender?

Any help would be appreciated, I'm super new to this lol

For 3DS Max at least, it's silly and doesn't read DX10-based DDS files correctly, so yeah you'll need to convert those to PNG first before they'll show up textured. If you want something free that'll convert those in a jiffy, you can use Noesis to batch convert 'em. Just change the output path to:

Code:

$inpath$\$inname$.$outext$

for that to convert them into the same folder / same basenames as the DDS files, then 3DS Max will be able to preview 'em.

Thanks, that worked! My cloddy boy is in full HD! My only question now is: is there a way to extract the dds files such that each pokemon has its own folder, with all the dds files inside? The way mine did it was each dds file has its own separate folder, and that makes it really annoying to find all the ones for a certain pokemon and collect them together to convert to PNG. Maybe there's a setting to use in quickBMS? If you know, that would be appreciated!