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Jeff-Groves · 12-08-24, 04:16 PM

After a lot of thinking on it? I've got most of it worked out in my head.
I'm not good at programing things for 3D viewing but I can manipulate the heck out of the obj format! As 010 does use a type of C coding? I may even make a stand alone program at some point to handle the transformations.

Now I know just enough about Blender (Even less about Wings3D) to be dangerous! So those that use those programs? I'll need some help.

I can tell you that Pack3D does a good job doing the mass export of needed files. BUT. Since many objects have multipule UVs? It stacks them all into the obj file. But that is not a problem as I only need the verts to do all the Math on.
Moving the objects is just a matter of adding the XYZ from a location.dat file to a given object file. Rotation is more complicated Math but I've already coded that!
The stuff I'm coding will do the heavy lifting work. Once you edit things in a 3D program and export the objects? The codeing will reverse that and spit out a PROPER Location.dat! You'll only need to MAYBE change IDs.
I've got a way to do that automagically also in my head and have posted before on how one can do that!

I've started the code to grab ID's and names of all 3D models in the Harbor_Kit.dat
That will rename all the 3D objects I've exported to the ID's.

Then I'll rip the needed stuff from a Location.dat to get things ready to import to a 3D program. It's pretty intense but I'm haveing a BLAST doing a Jethro Bodine on this!

Oh Yeah. I'll also be extracting the needed areas with ref's SH3 Tool and converting that information to an object file! Making it easier to do a Harbor or other location. Already did that kind of tool for SH5.

12-08-24, 04:16 PM	#6
Jeff-Groves GLOBAL MODDING TERRORIST Join Date: Sep 2014 Posts: 5,654 Downloads: 137 Uploads: 0	After a lot of thinking on it? I've got most of it worked out in my head. I'm not good at programing things for 3D viewing but I can manipulate the heck out of the obj format! As 010 does use a type of C coding? I may even make a stand alone program at some point to handle the transformations. Now I know just enough about Blender (Even less about Wings3D) to be dangerous! So those that use those programs? I'll need some help. I can tell you that Pack3D does a good job doing the mass export of needed files. BUT. Since many objects have multipule UVs? It stacks them all into the obj file. But that is not a problem as I only need the verts to do all the Math on. Moving the objects is just a matter of adding the XYZ from a location.dat file to a given object file. Rotation is more complicated Math but I've already coded that! The stuff I'm coding will do the heavy lifting work. Once you edit things in a 3D program and export the objects? The codeing will reverse that and spit out a PROPER Location.dat! You'll only need to MAYBE change IDs. I've got a way to do that automagically also in my head and have posted before on how one can do that! I've started the code to grab ID's and names of all 3D models in the Harbor_Kit.dat That will rename all the 3D objects I've exported to the ID's. Then I'll rip the needed stuff from a Location.dat to get things ready to import to a 3D program. It's pretty intense but I'm haveing a BLAST doing a Jethro Bodine on this! Oh Yeah. I'll also be extracting the needed areas with ref's SH3 Tool and converting that information to an object file! Making it easier to do a Harbor or other location. Already did that kind of tool for SH5. Last edited by Jeff-Groves; 12-08-24 at 04:25 PM.