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Post by alphaz on Jul 4, 2020 14:40:58 GMT 10
I uploaded v1.35a, a quick hotfix for v1.35. It makes it so that the MDF_Material Object Property will only write a new material index for the submesh if a third object property called Write_MDF_Material is present and is set to true. So if you want to change a submesh's material, right click on it, go into its object properties and change it so that Write_MDF_Material = true, then change MDF_Material to the index of the material you want to change it to: RE Engine MESH Tool v1.35a [Download Here]CHANGES: - Crash fixes for stages / static meshes and RE2 meshes
- Weapons meshes are exported correctly without ever being invisible
- Face UVs are no longer imported because they were causing UV corruption in the RE7 script, and because vertex UVs are enough anyway
- Much improved T-pose skeleton import, with less twisted bones
- "Add Bone" can now add one more bone than it could before
- Submeshes now have custom Object Properties when you right click on them, one of which is MDF_Material = . Changing this user property changes what material the submesh uses from its MDF file
- "Use New Naming Scheme" checkbox lets you import and export with submeshes numbered by order rather than by material, so every mainmesh will have submesh_1,2,3,4 etc instead of things like 2,3,6,7
Object PropertiesWhen you import a model, it will have special user-properties added to it by the script that define what material it uses and what submesh it is. You can see these properties by right clicking on the submesh and going to its Object Properties, like this:   The submesh property is not currently used, but changing the number in the MDF_Material property will actually change what material that submesh uses. It corresponds to the same list of numbers used by the model's MDF file for its materials used on the model. UPDATE: as of v1.35a, MDF_Material will be ignored during export unless the third property, Write_MDF_Material, is set to true. New Naming SchemeTo explain the purpose of the New Naming Scheme, I think it's best to show you a model that requires it. Here is a mesh of Jill that has her first 12 submeshes all combined onto Mainmesh_1. Normally, all of mainmesh_2 and mainmesh_3 (8 submeshes) are made invisible from the start of RE3 until Jill picks up the pistol from the dead cop. This hacked mesh combines the structures of Mainmesh_2 and Mainmesh_3 all together onto Mainmesh_1, which will never go invisible:  ...but some of those submeshes use the same material, so with the old naming scheme Maliwei made for the script, there would be multiple LODGroup_1_Mainmesh_1_Submesh_2's, for example, and they would be skipped or exported to the wrong places in the file. That's why you need to use the new naming scheme. Checking the "Use New Naming Scheme" checkbox will organize the imported submeshes by their order in the file, rather than by what material they use. So Mainmesh_1 will now be populated by Submesh_1,2,3,4 etc instead of having an odd ordering like Submesh_2,3,5,6, and every other mainmesh will have its submeshes ordered numerically as well. You can download the combined-mainmesh model here. It is a version of Jill's default costume meant for the full-game, with a head bone added. It and any mods made over it must be imported and exported using the new naming scheme.  ^fully equipped Jill at the start of RE3 |
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Post by kaede on Jul 5, 2020 7:51:51 GMT 10
Thanks so much for your work on this! Though I've run into an issue. I've edited a mesh (some simple vertex shifting/transforms) and re-skinned, added normals and all that jazz but every time I hit export the script generates an empty .mesh. If I select everything but my modified mesh it exports fine. What am I missing on it?
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Post by jaep88 on Jul 8, 2020 23:46:51 GMT 10
I was able to obtain 3ds max 2014 version however the Most current RE engine mesh tool (max script) does not work. It will allow me to import but it fails to export every time. Does anyone here uses the same 204 version, if yes which version of the the script can I use that works?
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Post by alphaz on Jul 9, 2020 3:11:40 GMT 10
I was able to obtain 3ds max 2014 version however the Most current RE engine mesh tool (max script) does not work. It will allow me to import but it fails to export every time. Does anyone here uses the same 204 version, if yes which version of the the script can I use that works? I use it every day and it works fine. What do you mean by it "fails to export" every time? What happens? Thanks so much for your work on this! Though I've run into an issue. I've edited a mesh (some simple vertex shifting/transforms) and re-skinned, added normals and all that jazz but every time I hit export the script generates an empty .mesh. If I select everything but my modified mesh it exports fine. What am I missing on it? That only really happens when the meshes are named incorrectly or are not selected for export. Make sure you are selecting only the mesh objects that you want to export before you click export, and that they have the correct naming scheme to replace the same-named meshes in the original model, i.e. named like "LODGroup_1_MainMesh_1_SubMesh_1"
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Post by jaep88 on Jul 9, 2020 6:51:05 GMT 10
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Post by alphaz on Jul 9, 2020 7:41:45 GMT 10
That always happens with all versions of the script when the UV verts do not match up with the mesh verts (which happens when you edit the mesh geometry). Even if you could export it to the game successfully, the textures would be scrambled on the model. To fix this, you have to either re-import the broken submesh by exporting it as 3DS and importing it back in (or by exporting as OBJ or FBX, then exporting it again from Noesis as OBJ / FBX, then importing it back into Max), or just use ResetMesh to fix it. Since you have Max 2014 and are actually able to use ResetMesh, I would go with that
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Post by jaep88 on Jul 9, 2020 7:42:42 GMT 10
**Update**
I reinstalled 3ds MAX and now it seems to be working. Not sure how it was installed incorrectly or it probably became corrupted. thanks anyways AlphaZ for your response
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Post by kaede on Jul 9, 2020 14:08:40 GMT 10
Thanks for the reply, alphaz. I double checked the name and for testing I tried to import only the SubMesh I edited. It starts the export process and then I noticed on the bottom event dialogue in 3DS 2017 it gets stuck at "Adding Skin Modifier Please Wait..." Though it already has a Skin Modifier. It generates an empty .mesh still, but if I exit the script, the mesh resizes to about 50 kbs or so. Any idea how I could troubleshoot this?
EDIT: REIMPORT SUBMESH IS A LIFESAVER!!! That little feature fixed my problem! Thanks again, alphaz, you're a fucking legend!!
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Post by FluffyQuack on Aug 3, 2020 1:53:11 GMT 10
I'll just write this info here in case this is useful for anyone else.
Lady in DMC5 has sunglasses as part of her head mesh, but it's turned off by default (only activated when you use her bonus outfit, and even then it's only active in certain scenes). I noticed that the "Type" byte for the "MainMeshHeader" struct was 0 for normal meshes and always 3 for the sunglasses meshes. Turning that value from 3 to 0 made the sunglasses always render.
Maybe this is useful for anyone else if you encounter a mesh that is set to sometimes render but you want to change that.
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Post by 388 on Aug 6, 2020 21:11:22 GMT 10
I import mesh with UnchnageBoneMapName,and when I export to newmesh ,something error. 
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Post by 958261649 on Aug 16, 2020 23:04:02 GMT 10
Hi I write a script in blender in order to convert MMD model into DMC5 automatically .The script will dissolve and rename the bones to match DMC5.But I discovered that I have have to do the following steps in 3dsmax : save the envelop,delete the skin Modifiers , copy the skin Modifiers from original mesh to the MMD mesh and load the envelop.IF not,the weigh will out of sequence.Does the tool marching the bones not according to the bones names? I was very keen to omit those step,Can you give some suggestion？Anyway,thank you for your powerful tool.
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Post by alphaz on Aug 22, 2020 7:24:02 GMT 10
RE Engine MESH Tool v1.36 [Download Here]CHANGES:-"Rigging fix" has been added, now models should have less jagged rigging, hair and other materials should not have verts stretching to infinity, and "Remove Zero Weights" should not have to be used -Scaling fix for saving bone positions now lets you change the scale of the local bone positions I import mesh with UnchnageBoneMapName,and when I export to newmesh ,something error. Hi I write a script in blender in order to convert MMD model into DMC5 automatically .The script will dissolve and rename the bones to match DMC5.But I discovered that I have have to do the following steps in 3dsmax : save the envelop,delete the skin Modifiers , copy the skin Modifiers from original mesh to the MMD mesh and load the envelop.IF not,the weigh will out of sequence.Does the tool marching the bones not according to the bones names? I was very keen to omit those step,Can you give some suggestion？Anyway,thank you for your powerful tool. The tool matches bones by their order in the Skin modifier, which is why the bone numbers are necessary. Without bone numbers, the weights are assigned out-of-order, which results in things like 388's screenshot. Matching-by-name is a feature in the Noesis script exporter, but not in the Maxscript (yet). This is just how Maliwei wrote it originally. It would be very useful to have; I just haven't tried very hard to implement it myself because I always work on the same skeleton as the model I'm exporting over, and use SkinUtilities and Transfer Skeleton to migrate rigged models between skeletons
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Post by Jagi on Dec 2, 2020 10:19:11 GMT 10
RE Engine MESH Tool v1.36[Download Here]CHANGES:-"Rigging fix" has been added, now models should have less jagged rigging, hair and other materials should not have verts stretching to infinity, and "Remove Zero Weights" should not have to be used -Scaling fix for saving bone positions now lets you change the scale of the local bone positions I import mesh with UnchnageBoneMapName,and when I export to newmesh ,something error. Hi I write a script in blender in order to convert MMD model into DMC5 automatically .The script will dissolve and rename the bones to match DMC5.But I discovered that I have have to do the following steps in 3dsmax : save the envelop,delete the skin Modifiers , copy the skin Modifiers from original mesh to the MMD mesh and load the envelop.IF not,the weigh will out of sequence.Does the tool marching the bones not according to the bones names? I was very keen to omit those step,Can you give some suggestion？Anyway,thank you for your powerful tool. The tool matches bones by their order in the Skin modifier, which is why the bone numbers are necessary. Without bone numbers, the weights are assigned out-of-order, which results in things like 388's screenshot. Matching-by-name is a feature in the Noesis script exporter, but not in the Maxscript (yet). This is just how Maliwei wrote it originally. It would be very useful to have; I just haven't tried very hard to implement it myself because I always work on the same skeleton as the model I'm exporting over, and use SkinUtilities and Transfer Skeleton to migrate rigged models between skeletons Does this update work? Because when I try to export it never ends and it don't look like it's advancing or anything. Normally when I export i can't use 3ds until it ends but that don't happen here
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Post by demonslayerx8 on Jan 9, 2021 21:42:44 GMT 10
Monster Hunter Rise uses Revil engine, and formats are .mesh, .tex, and .mdf2, but sadly meshes fail to import, however bones import fine. Currently all the files extracted are hashed due to being in a single pak file with no file list available yet. Here's a few mesh and texture samples.  Edit: Some texture types I've documented so far
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Post by alphaz on Jan 17, 2021 12:37:56 GMT 10
Thank you demonslayerx8 , I am looking through those files a bit now, I expect Resident Evil 8 to be in a similar format to MH Rise. Also I have a QOL update here for RE Engine MESH tool: RE Engine MESH Tool v1.37a- Meshes can now be imported with real bones instead of dummies
- New "Add / Remove Bone Numbers" button replaces "Generate Weighted Normals" button (which can still be found on my tool)
- Fixed an error that sometimes occurred where skin weights were undefined
- Made the importer skip importing Skin or Normals on placeholder meshes that have only 3 verts
- Removed a bunch of the outdated credits and guide stuff from the rollout
- "Use New Naming Scheme" is now checked by default
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RE Engine MESH Tool v1.35a
