We've found the definition of hack and guesswork, all in one placeOriginally Posted by TheGhost
Still though, I do have to say good job jahrain; regardless of elegance, you did make it work and that puts you in the 90th percentile.
Nick
We've found the definition of hack and guesswork, all in one place
Still though, I do have to say good job jahrain; regardless of elegance, you did make it work and that puts you in the 90th percentile.
Nick
No, I just find it amusing that he only recently realized that it would require no post-processing? I thought that was your entire plan in going from gbxmodel --> render_model, because you couldn't calculate binormals, tangents, centroids, etc. All of a sudden you're saying something about JMS and that leading to your scrambled bipeds...? I smell a cover-up.
Let it go. There is no sense in stretching it. He accomplished what he needed to do.
Yes it was my plan but as I mensioned, but it was all under heavy assumption that I could do it without having to process the vertex and triangle data. I have only recently confirmed that my assumption was correct. Those first couple pics I posted was from just directly from a modified h1 .jms file that had nothing but vertecies and the indices in it due to me not completely mapping out the .gbxmodel structure yet. I realized the reasons it was scrambled is because it did require those degens as I mentioned earlier which where created by post processing with tool.
Theres no cover up, I'm trying to be honest and open about this, I don't know why you would think otherwise. I'm trying to explain what all I did and how I did it so that I could get better feedback, and perhaps someone might do a better job at it than I can instead of what, say what some others would do which would be just show off pics and keep all the information of how to do it to himself for the purpose of fame and glory.
If you hadn't mapped out the gbxmodel tag yet you could have asked me. Obviously I know the format very well as I've had to parse every byte of it and know what it corresponded to.
Well, I wasn't sure you or anyone else would be willing to help me. Besides, I like the fun of mapping out a model file structure. But maybe you could help by correcting any mistakes I might have made in this.Code:Key: int16S: 16 bit integer byte swapped float32S: 32 bit floating point byte swapped longS: 32 bit long integer byte swapped byte: 8 bit byte string32: 32 byte length string 0x : relative offset in bytes gbxModel struct main size = 296 0x236 = markerCount longS 0x248 = nodeCount longS 0x260 = regionCount longS 0x272 = geometryCount longS 0x284 = shaderCount longS markersBlock size = 64 0x0 = nameString string32 0x32 = magicIdentifier int16S 0x52 = markerInstanceCount longS markerInstanceBlock size = 32 0x0 = regionIndex byte 0x1 = permutationIndex byte 0x2 = nodeIndex byte 0x4 = positionX float32S 0x8 = positionY float32S 0x12 = positionZ float32S 0x16 = rotationI float32S 0x20 = rotationJ float32S 0x24 = rotationK float32S 0x28 = ratationW float32S nodeBlock size = 156 0x0 nameString string32 0x32 = nextSiblingNodeIndex int16S 0x34 = firstChildNodeIndex int16S 0x36 = parentNodeIndex int16S 0x40 = positionX float32S 0x44 = positionY float32S 0x48 = positionZ float32S 0x52 = rotationI float32S 0x56 = rotationJ float32S 0x60 = rotationK float32S 0x64 = rotationW float32S 0x68 = nodeDistance float32S regionBlock size = 76 0x0 = nameString string32 0x64 = permutationCount longS permutationsBlock size = 88 0x0 = nameString string32 0x64 = superLowGeometryIndex int16S 0x66 = lowGeometryIndex int16S 0x68 = mediumGeometryIndex int16S 0x70 = highGeometryIndex int16S 0x72 = superHighGeometryIndex int16S 0x76 = markersCount longS markersBlock size = 80 0x0 = markerName string32 0x32 = nodeIndex int16S 0x36 = rotationI float32S 0x40 = rotationJ float32S 0x44 = rotationK float32S 0x48 = rotationW float32S 0x52 = positionX float32S 0x56 = positionY float32S 0x60 = positionZ float32S geometriesBlock size = 48 0x36 = partsCount longS partsBlock size = 132 0x4 = shaderIndex int16S 0x20 = centroidX float32S 0x24 = centroidY float32S 0x28 = centroidZ float32S 0x32 = vertexCount longS 0x44 = compressedVertexCount longS 0x56 = triangleCount longS uncompressedVerteciesBlock size = 68 0x0 = positionX float32S 0x4 = positionY float32S 0x8 = positionZ float32S 0x12 = normalI float32S 0x16 = normalJ float32S 0x20 = normalK float32S 0x24 = biNormalI float32S 0x28 = biNormalJ float32S 0x32 = biNormalk float32S 0x36 = tangentI float32S 0x40 = tangentJ float32S 0x44 = tangentK float32S 0x48 = texCoordX float32S 0x52 = texCoordY float32S 0x56 = node0Index int16S 0x58 = node1Index int16S 0x60 = node0weight float32S 0x64 = node1weight float32S compressedVertexBlock size = 32 triangleBlock size = 6 0x0 = indexA int16S 0x2 = indexB int16S 0x4 = indexC int16S shaderBlock size = 32 0x10 = shaderTagRegSize shaderTagRefsBlock
Last edited by jahrain; June 27th, 2007 at 02:10 PM.
Post the render_model one as well for fun.
Oh its pretty ugly and not very legible yet. I'l post it once I clean it up and format it a bit.
ZOMG UPDATE!!!11one
First of all, The project has been renamed to GBXModel Upgrader. Because that is precisely what it does. It will upgrade your .gbxmodel tags to h2's .render_model tags. Heres a screen shot of the current working GUI.
It was quickly thrown together, and I may polish it off a bit before release. Still a few more geometry options I need to add in, such as the option to support compressed model, setting specific tag flags and such.
I fixed most of the geometry problems, except the flipping faces problem still has me befuddled. Right now my work around is to just set each shader to be double sided and the problem goes away. Until then, I have added the option to flip each face for each individual geometry part. Also shaders, markers and node blocks are now fully supported and transfer just about flawlessly. UVWs are all correct, vertex weighting is correct, (for bipeds), and so on.
Right now, the current build has the ability for you to create custom scenery, skyboxes crates, weapons, bipeds, vehicles etc that all use the same collision, animations and physics models of existing tags. I haven't fully tested all of these yet, since I'm limited with guerrilla atm but I'm quite certain that the upgraded models should work pretty flawlessly ingame.
compared with the original tag:
And heres a model that went ingame smoothly with shaders and texture applied.
Yes thats my sexy custom biped I modeled about a year ago. Its been a fine test subject. Right now, its just a piece of scenery however.
Still just a few things to polish up and a few bugs to fix before I make my first release.
Last edited by Kornman00; July 7th, 2007 at 05:40 PM.
Oh shi. The best model I've seen in halo 2.
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