Exporting custom models to RE2, RE3 and DMC5 with Noesis

^ Are you sure the bones on the modded mesh are named exactly like the ones on the original mesh?

One thing that caused that for me was using the .mesh file from the wrong place, be sure to use the one in STM\escape\character\player\plXXXX\plXXXX\Mesh and not the one in the sectionroot folder. Another thing that caused that for me was for example, importing two models and accidentally exporting a mesh from one model with the other one, as in, the part of the mesh was not connected to the first root (bone) but the second one. I bypassed that by joining both meshes and deleting the 3D vertices of the first one to use only the 3d object of the second one.




Thank you very much chiav, I'm really glad you like it! I'm a big fan of your own mods

theflyingmuffin
The parameters are to be entered here, after the location of the MESH file that you want to export over:



Sorry the options are not in a more accessible place, but there do not seem to be many ways to get user input when exporting with a Noesis plugin

I did the initial skin wrap of this with 3ds Max but I used Maya to fix and finish painting the weights, so I can confirm Maya works really good. Although I had a few issues where in the game some vertices of the models just went nuts, as if they had no weights on them, I don’t know if it was an error on my part or some settings, but I repainted them more carefully and it got fixed. The mask was rigged with Maya only and had no problems like that with it.

I’ve worked with Maya for a few years now and it’s my go to program for 3D so this is amazing, thank you very much for this script, it certainly helped me a lot on this process!

Thanks for the information, I'm glad to hear it works with Maya!
And if the vertices of the model "went nuts" in that they looked like they were stretching off to infinity, then I have seen that before when exporting mods with the MaxScript. In that case, it would be fixed by using "Remove Zero Weights" at a threshold where all weights below ~0.04 would be removed. It happened a lot with hair meshes in particular, and meshes that used a translucent material.


You can't add entirely new bones that aren't in the skeleton of the model you are exporting over. However, you can hex edit the Skin Bone Map of a mesh file to activate bones that were previously not able to be rigged to, such as Jill's head bone. Jill has a bout 190 bones, but only about 130 of those are in the bone map and can actually be used for rigging. You can try hex editing with the MESH template for 010 Editor if you want to activate an unused bone. Just increase the bone map count by 1 (if there is space to do so without overwriting any hierarchy data) and then change the new last entry in the Skin Bone Map to be the bone you want to activate.

You can also change the names of bones to repurpose them, if you have space to do so without shifting any other bytes around. The animations and chain files detect bones via their names, so changing a bone's name changes how it is used. For example, I gave Becca the ability to carry holstered weapons in RE3 by un-rigging and renaming her pecA_muscle bones to setProp_A_00 and setProp_B_00, and changing their positions + parent bones. The holstered weapons automatically attached to them when their "setProp" names were detected.

ahh, stupid uroboros glitch. I can never remember exactly what causes it. This is like the 2nd time it's come back for not writing some stupid header change that nobody even knows what it (or two of the other header changes we write with it) really mean. I don't get why they even have to be changed from what they were in the original model, but if they aren't, this happens...

Here's a version of the script that should fix it, let me know if it does and I'll update the one in the OP: 
fmt_re_MESH.py

^EDIT: re-uploaded fixed

Seems like there might be a problem with RE2 skeletons in general. I was modding Claire's hair and I changed some bones names, where they were and hierarchy (all this inside Blender) but I didn't delete any of them, just generally swapped their names and locations. The first problem I encountered was when trying to export all 3 modded meshes (scalp hair, ponytail, thin hairs) together, Noesis kept saying that the mesh had 35 bones and the skeleton 36, making the entire hair model invisible in game. Upon rechecking the model everything was in order, from bone name in the skeleton as well as how the vertex weights were named. When I stopped exporting the thin hairs mesh with the rest of the hair model, I managed to import it in game.

When I did manage to get the mesh in game though, bone positions had changed (all of them where close to the ground) some back to their original form and others didn't. I suspect its because the ones that kept the new modded bone position were already linked (the bangs). The ones where the hierarchy was changed however, reverted back to normal in both name and position. So I imported this new modded .mesh into Noesis and exported as FBX again to see if I could make it work again. So I open Blender, make the necessary changes again with bone name, locations and parents and export it as RE2 mesh file using Noesis again, except this time around the rigging was completely gone though the bones were still there.

I found some rigging issues with a custom Classic Claire mesh and after some testing, the source of the problem seems to be Noesis, later on I tested exporting the original/vanilla model as fbx with Noesis, then that same fbx exported back to mesh without modifying anything, this is what happens every time, with both Jacket and No Jacket versions







I tried seeing if I could fix the rigging issues in Maya but everything seems fine when I import the fbx there, while in the game it looks like that. Any way to fix this? Other models seem to work fine but for some reason Claire's Classic rigging on the magazines, shorts and radio gets messed up with the script