Tools: nothingness' Model Extraction Tool

Judas

@Encrypted

Upvote @nothingness He's our true genius here. I'm just an idiot with a large hacksaw that start sawing, grinding and beating until the game does what I want(I call it 'modding' tho haha).

//Manly tear of pride

(Wait, where's nothingness)

AvionAris

ok
yay.gorilla

bilal

@Judas

Yeah I did it with just the command in cmd before and it said it found every model, but then said "output opening error." Batch file does the same thing as expected. Too bad.

Judas

Strange.

Well luckily it worked for me, so if I can get those resources uploaded we'll be right as rain!

AvionAris

And we could get great materials for the wiki, too! If we could somehow implement rotating 3D models into it.

bilal

@Judas
Okay! Out of curiosity, about how big is one of those files?

Judas

@bilal

Very small(2MB total?). Problem is that all the textures are BMP files which bump up the size again. If I can separate those (probably have to do that by hand) I can upload 'm. I'll get on it tonight.

bilal

@Judas
Sounds good.

Judas

Models 1 Contains:
Administrators
Aggressors
Beacon
Constructors
Debris
Factory
Fire
Garrison
Holo (?)

Models1.zip

Judas

Models2 contains:
Lab
Locator
Mine
Missilee
Pod
Smelter
Models2.zip

Judas

Models3 Contains:

Shared
Smelter (Whoops, double)
Technici
Transpor
Weapons

Models3.zip

Judas

Last ones are:
planet
texture2
texture4

But they contain a lot of .bmp's so I can't upload 'm yet.

TOTAL SIZE of all model files + bitmaps = ~70Mb

AvionAris

'Holo'? Hmmm... what does it look like?

Oh, wait. It might be that mineral site marker.
I've read somewhere that Locators place holograms where minerals are. If 'Holo' is that mineral site marker, then... well!

Judas

Yes.

When did you play the game for the last time? :p

Hayden

If you need more space to upload this stuff I can get you access to upload to http://download.wiredforwar.org

Judas

ALL THE MODELS + TEXTURES

http://download.wiredforwar.org/Game/Machines Models %26 Textures.zip

In .x and .obj (Wavefront). If anybody needs the files in another format, call me!

bilal

Is there any way to retrieve the animation files? If not maybe the original machines animator would be generous enough to provide them if he still has them. ;)

Mahmoud

@bilal said:

Is there any way to retrieve the animation files? If not maybe the original machines animator would be generous enough to provide them if he still has them. ;)

Back in the day I had the contact info and blog site for the animator. I don't remember how we had that; it was something like imdb I think. Now all I can get from a quick search is that the director of the game was Mark Hardisty, and that's just from Wikipedia. Anyone have better luck/memory?

bilal

@Mahmoud
Yeah you can probably find it in the old forum, he had a website with a bunch of gifs of running machines. I think Griffin or something was in his name?

bilal

@Mahmoud
It's this guy: http://www.hogton.com/

He still has all of the gifs up here alongside the videos: http://www.hogton.com/animation/index.htm