04-18-2009, 07:13 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-18-2009, 08:01 PM by Shadowth117.)
Great rips Mageker! If you need help with icons I can get good model screenshots for them.
Miles, the biggest things I can't rip from are probably things that aren't for PC. Namely Xbox 360 and PS3 games. I can occasionally rip from their ports though. You'd be amazed at what you can find with Google. There's a whole bunch of tools that can be used for this kind of thing out there. Honestly I'm surprised people haven't ripped from more moddable games like Halo 1 and 2. They both even have PC ports with official editors. 3D Ripper DX tends to get a lot of things normal extractors can't get to also. Its more of a last resort though usually since it doesn't sort them whatsoever. It rips models and textures from nearly any Direct X 8 or 9 game. Its also probably the only reason I was able to get Textures from SA2B.
Lastly, I've noticed on the site that there are zip files and stuff for large sets of textures. Should I do this for the Above Ground level textures because textures that are 1024x1024 pixels are a bit difficult to put on a sheet. I guess they wanted the environments to look really nice because the average Above Ground level texture is 256x256. Thankfully, there aren't many of these so it would be possible to put them on sheets, but they would have to be seriously huge. Here's an example of what I'm talking about:
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/4876/0p...les3tc.png
Miles, the biggest things I can't rip from are probably things that aren't for PC. Namely Xbox 360 and PS3 games. I can occasionally rip from their ports though. You'd be amazed at what you can find with Google. There's a whole bunch of tools that can be used for this kind of thing out there. Honestly I'm surprised people haven't ripped from more moddable games like Halo 1 and 2. They both even have PC ports with official editors. 3D Ripper DX tends to get a lot of things normal extractors can't get to also. Its more of a last resort though usually since it doesn't sort them whatsoever. It rips models and textures from nearly any Direct X 8 or 9 game. Its also probably the only reason I was able to get Textures from SA2B.
Lastly, I've noticed on the site that there are zip files and stuff for large sets of textures. Should I do this for the Above Ground level textures because textures that are 1024x1024 pixels are a bit difficult to put on a sheet. I guess they wanted the environments to look really nice because the average Above Ground level texture is 256x256. Thankfully, there aren't many of these so it would be possible to put them on sheets, but they would have to be seriously huge. Here's an example of what I'm talking about:
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/4876/0p...les3tc.png
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