Aria C Posted May 21, 2011 Posted May 21, 2011 Its been awhile since I modded DA and now that I am taking a stab at DA2 I cannot for the life of me remember how to export meshes for editing. I remember once long ago stumbling across a tutorial which explained the process but of course now that I need a refresher I cant find it. Does anyone have a link that can help me out?
Thandal Posted May 21, 2011 Posted May 21, 2011 (edited) Its been awhile since I modded DA and now that I am taking a stab at DA2 I cannot for the life of me remember how to export meshes for editing. I remember once long ago stumbling across a tutorial which explained the process but of course now that I need a refresher I cant find it. Does anyone have a link that can help me out?Hey there, Aria C; You'll want all the stuff under the Files tab here: "pyGFF on the BSN". Use the "fname" list to replace the file designators with something human-readable, (the list isn't complete and hasn't been updated in a while) then the editor to extract the .dds you want. You'll also need an "erf packer" (gib has one that folk seem to use a lot) to repackage your stuff when you're done. :thumbsup: [Edit: IANAM ("I am not a modder"), only done a very small amount of peeking and poking inside the DA2 erfs, so may have forgotten/mistaken something.] Edited May 21, 2011 by Thandal added disclaimer.
ishmaeltheforsaken Posted May 22, 2011 Posted May 22, 2011 Thandal, that's fine if she wants to work with the textures, but she's asking about exporting meshes to a format the game can work with. Aria C, it depends on what modeling program you're using. tmp7704 wrote a Lighwave plugin to import/export both binary and .xml mesh files. This is what I've been using to do my mesh edits. There's also DA2tools, but I never was never able to get it to work with Blender properly :(
Thandal Posted May 22, 2011 Posted May 22, 2011 Thx, Ishmael! I did gloss over the request for meshes and just presumed extracting textures, (as my mention of .dds's would indicate!) Oops! o_O
ishmaeltheforsaken Posted May 23, 2011 Posted May 23, 2011 Yeah, I saw you mention .dds files and thought "Oh, he must have misread the post :P." Anywho, I'll keep tabs on this thread in case the OP has any more questions (though I'm far from an expert; just someone who's made a few edits in her time). Outside of Lightwave, though, I'm afraid I won't be much use at all. I never could get DA2tools to work, and it seems like someone in one of the dedicated DA2 boards is having the same issue I had.
anzolino Posted May 26, 2011 Posted May 26, 2011 I found import scripts for blender and 3ds max here: http://forum.xentax.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=6119. But at the moment there seems no way to export the mesh directly back into the DA2 msh format or exporting a XML file and compiling it with the DAO processors. Ish is the lucky one who can. I can only confirm that the import works but I also don't know if the bones are right.
Aria C Posted May 27, 2011 Author Posted May 27, 2011 sorry for being mia from my own thread my video card overheated and promptly died, thankfuly its replacement arrived today :) Thank You all for responding, I'm using blender and hopefuly the scripts anzolino linked to will work out, also ty for the update on the textures.
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