(Another) Zelda Ripping Project!

[Twilight Weaver]

I'm back again, looking to get models from OOT 3d and MM 3d, what programs should I use? I have no problem doing textures by hand, but I need the vertex colors on the models intact. Google search results are a mess.
Currently got the stuff from models resource loaded up into a UE4 oculus quest project. Whole thing is working with vertex lighting.

 You got it almost 100% correct.





You're missing out on something important regarding the vertex colors. You need a shader that multiplies the vertex color output by 2.
This way, the colors get more contrast to really make the scene pop, similar to fake lighting baked in.
As well as have the scenes extracted with a tool and Blender version that doesn't botch values f.e. uv accuracy and missing alpha.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y-WyflS...sp=sharing //The game files (Some rips available online had damaged cmb files. This one is correct)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12hjyGDA...sp=sharing //The importer for Blender which exports characters with rig.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rUvO95N...sp=sharing //The special Blender version that support vertex color alpha channel.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uEUb5Jf...sp=sharing //The game's soundtrack accurately converted to midi with correct soundfont. (Sounds like the real thing)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VXFWNYC...sp=sharing //Wanna get those eye and mouth textures from characters.



P.S. Sometimes you need to disassemble the cmb from the zsi. You can easily do this in HxD. All you need to do is cut out the first part of the file until 'cmb'.



After that, just rename the file extension to cmb.

EDIT - Whoops, I forgot to make links accessible for everyone. Now downloads should work.
          Also, huge thanks to M-1, as he's the one who created the importer.
          https://github.com/M-1-RLG

EDIT 12/11/21 - I suggest following Meltyplayer's model utility as well. It extracts the game's model library in it's entirety to both fbx and gltf2 and can be easily navigated through Noesis.
https://github.com/MeltyPlayer/FinModelUtility

So why should I use this method over the cmbviewer? like what are the benefits of this vs cmbviewer? it seems like more steps with the same end result. Especially since you can just dump the .dae file with cmbviewer and open that in blender and not have to worry about possible coding issues while manually converting the .zsi into a .cmb... so am I missing something? Does this "special" blender version automatically apply the alpha textures in with the material so you don't have to do it manually? Are a lot of files frequently missing the alpha when imported? I've not had a problem with that.. 
You said the IO scene master exports characters with rigs but so does cmb viewer? Explanations would be GREATLY appreciated.

Edit: I just did some tests and realized that using the cmbviewer the skeleton does not exported with the dae file, which I thought it did. The question I still have is this the only benefit? Granted it's a good benefit but only useful if you're trying to export characters, and also I did still use the cmb viewer, I just extracted the cmb instead of exported a dae file.

Edit 2: Importer works fine with the special version of blender but blender won't export a .dae or .fbx with textures and in the case of the .dae it won't even export the model correctly. Not sure why this is happening, I dumped the .dae file because that's the only way I could get it to dump the textures with it and I applied those textures to the model with the skeleton and the UVs were correct, however I tested the skeleton and it wasn't rigged to the model at all, so unless I'm doing everything wrong it appears that the current method still requires manual rigging.