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Post by Rex on Jun 25, 2021 9:26:16 GMT 10
Has any work ever been done to bring real time cutscenes to the game? I've been searching hard but couldn't find any. It quite surprises me that with such a strong modding scene and with the game being around for 7 years before the UHD edition came out, no work was ever done in this area. In fact, even after the UHD's release, the modding work was still being done and their is still stuff being released for this game albeit in a small amount. I find it hard to believe that with such talented modders on the board from all over the world that have dissected the game inside out, it's still been a mystery to this day?
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Post by Biohazard4X on Jun 25, 2021 13:26:52 GMT 10
Oh I have done some looking in the past. Im the 2007 edition it really is bizarre. They only contain FCV Camera Animation to tell where it too to go and EFF and gibberish MDT files.
I have tried to make to custom EVD files and as with modding I have been successful and failed. I learned the format, and lay-out and included the Necessities...
Player Models (BIN format with TPL from the plXX.dats) EFF files(Effects) Original MDT file Player Animations Camera Animations
No LIT(Lighting) files since the originals do not seem to have them abd work fine without.
I tried this and...No go,, game froze on black screen the second I triggered the Cutscene. So I decided to try the same thing but instead with PMD and TGA and textures and... once again, no go.
I wanted to try one last thing since the Cutscene will play only with cameras I decided to make a duplicate to see if my method was correct using FCV camera aniamtions from the UHD and, They Worked! So my method works! So I included everything one thing at a time and works! The game froze again the second I included the Models and Textures and I tried even without including the textures and nope. So its possible to make EVD files for game to read but the problem seems to be making the game read the models or whatever so it doesn't freezes the second the cutscene triggers.
Hope this information answers your questions and helps someone. Take Care!
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Post by HardRain on Jun 25, 2021 23:39:25 GMT 10
I was also searching about this a weeks ago, I found out that it seems to be possible at UHD version, because in the Devil May Cry mod, the author changed the first cutscene with model, textures and even a funny animation. You can see it here:
The cutscene starts at 9:03
(I think you're gonna need to open yt website to view)
About this: "bring real time cutscenes to the game?" what I can say is it depends. I've seen mods with cutscene characters models used in-game, so I believe they were extracted from the EVD files. Take a look at this:
If that is what you meant, so it seems to be possible, but I still don't know how to do it, I'm sorry.
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Post by Rex on Jun 26, 2021 8:46:08 GMT 10
Oh I have done some looking in the past. Im the 2007 edition it really is bizarre. They only contain FCV Camera Animation to tell where it too to go and EFF and gibberish MDT files. I have tried to make to custom EVD files and as with modding I have been successful and failed. I learned the format, and lay-out and included the Necessities... Player Models (BIN format with TPL from the plXX.dats) EFF files(Effects) Original MDT file Player Animations Camera Animations No LIT(Lighting) files since the originals do not seem to have them abd work fine without. I tried this and...No go,, game froze on black screen the second I triggered the Cutscene. So I decided to try the same thing but instead with PMD and TGA and textures and... once again, no go. I wanted to try one last thing since the Cutscene will play only with cameras I decided to make a duplicate to see if my method was correct using FCV camera aniamtions from the UHD and, They Worked! So my method works! So I included everything one thing at a time and works! The game froze again the second I included the Models and Textures and I tried even without including the textures and nope. So its possible to make EVD files for game to read but the problem seems to be making the game read the models or whatever so it doesn't freezes the second the cutscene triggers. Hope this information answers your questions and helps someone. Take Care! Weird that it refuses to read the models and textures. I'm not a technical person but I think it's maybe something in the game exe that might be preventing it? Though I'm quite sure that with the amount of experts that have been working on this version and even done really complex stuff, real time cutscenes would have been achieved long ago.
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Post by Rex on Jun 26, 2021 8:57:20 GMT 10
I was also searching about this a weeks ago, I found out that it seems to be possible at UHD version, because in the Devil May Cry mod, the author changed the first cutscene with model, textures and even a funny animation. You can see it here: The cutscene starts at 9:03 (I think you're gonna need to open yt website to view) About this: "bring real time cutscenes to the game?" what I can say is it depends. I've seen mods with cutscene characters models used in-game, so I believe they were extracted from the EVD files. Take a look at this:
If that is what you meant, so it seems to be possible, but I still don't know how to do it, I'm sorry.Oh, after seeing these I believe it even more now that real time cutscenes with proper models and textures really can be brought to this version. Honestly if I were capable, I would've put all my energies into making this a reality as this is like the ultimate thing this game is lacking now.
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Post by HardRain on Jul 4, 2021 0:30:34 GMT 10
Rex I found this, maybe you could give it a try: It is for playstation 2 version, but if you don't want that version, look into her playlist as there's a lot of videos on how to extract 3D models from any game.
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