question about the RE4 2007 to UHD Model Converter Toolset

Thank you for your consideration and time for helping me

I am stuck on the BIN extractor tool. These are the steps I have taken

1 - place all .BIN and .TPL files in same folder as the RE4_UHD_BIN_Extractor.exe
2 - edit the BIN_Extract.bat to read: RE4_UHD_BIN_Extractor.exe pl0d_000.bin pl0d_001.tpl -o

then I get the error: "Invalid model file [pl0d_000.bin] !!"

3 - I tried thismethod with every other .bin files in the folder, with the same error message.

Is there something I am doing wrong?

THank you Son of Persia for your assistance.. I got a little bit further ahead over the past few days, but had to start over from scratch.  Here is where I am at.. I want to port this old mode called Kyoka Katagiri Gunslinger Stratos Reloaded from the 2007 version to use as Leon with my UHD version on Steam. After all the work I did this week, my ported model does not work. I am hoping you can show me where I went wrong. Here are the steps I have taken. 

First I converted the pl00.udas.lfs file (Leon model) with the LFS conveter which created the pl00.udas file. I then placed this pl00.udas file in the same folder as the RE4_UHD_UDAS_Tool.exe which then extracted the first two BIN & TPL files. (The instructions do not specify whether users should convert ALL the BIN/TPL files or simply the ones that match in HEX values, which is difficult because many of the TPL have the same values). 

After extracting the contents of UDAS archive I checked the HEX numbers of the extracted files pl00_000.bin and pl00_001.tpl in a HEX editor and they matched. At this point I moved both files to the same folder as RE4_UHD_BIN_Extractor.exe and edited the BIN_Extract.bat file to read: 

RE4_UHD_BIN_Extractor.exe pl00_000.bin pl00_001.tpl

At this point the instructions say to "Double click on BIN_Extract.bat and the model will be exported to SMD and OBJ/MTL formats", 

After executing this it outputted the file pl00_000.smd, however no OGJ/MTL files were generated, simply the one .SMD file. I am able to open this file in Milkshape 3D .I noticed that Leon's model has no head or hands, so Im not even sure how to address that considering there is no mention of merging model files in the instructions. Also there is no mention in the instructions on how to convert models that already have a head (my older model) to models that do not (UHD Leon).

It is also worth mentioning that neither of these models have hands either. After this all failed I llooked in a different folder in the Kyoka model folders to see if there were other model files that might have hands. I found a whole bunch of models, so I converted them all to SMD to i could look at them in Milkshape. Alas I have found hands.. At that point I then merged all these model files into one model.(It should be noted there were several sets of hands though, so i have no clue what to do here). In the interest of just getting going, I simply chose to work with the model that had no hands with the hope it would still work and that I could go back later and swap it out. Im not sure if this is where I went wrong, but I need to explain every detail here as I have no clue why my ported model does not work.
(I would like to know though at this point, how the rest of the model files all get injected into ONE file). 
 
So, in order to port my older model, I first have to fix the skeleton, so I took an old 2007 model (pl160a.pmd) file (handless) and converted it to pl160a.smd with the RE4 2007 PMD Extractor tool. I am also able to open this file in Milkshape 3D (and see the textures as I have the .tga files in the same folder). At that point I had both .smd files to work with to fix the skeleton.  

After this i placed both .smd files in the 'Skeleton Changer' folder and edited the 'Skeleton_Changer.bat' to:

RE4_2007_UHD_Skeleton_Changer.exe pl00_000.smd pl160a.smd

Upon executing the .bat file above, there is a Windows error message saying the program has stopped working.
A new file is created before closing out 'pl160a_changed.smd' BUT the file is Zero bytes in size.
***EDIT*** I solved this particular problem by right clicking the UHD_Skeleton_Changer.exe and setting it to compatibility mode with Windows 7 (I am running Win 7). On with the show!

So for the next part of the process I exported the MTL/OBJ files (created by exporting OBJ file from Milkshape) in addition to all model textures (16 .tga files) and the pl160a_changed.smd file to the same folder as RE4_UHD_Bin_Generator.exe tool.

I then opened BIN_Generate.bat file in a text editor and changed the following command in it :

RE4_UHD_BIN_Generator.exe pl160a_changed.smd pl160a_changed.mtl 01000000 29

The default Leon package 01000000.pack.yz2 file contains 28 textures, so I input 29 at the end of the BIN_Generate.bat command to start indexing the new files in sequence so that the new textures can be added to the texture archive (more on this below). Finding the correct texture package number was a bit confusing. Luckily I found a list somewhere online that lists all the models and their corresponding texture packages, which in this case is '01000000' for Leon with coat. Without this list I might not have been so lucky.

The method described in the instructions state "Open any of the extracted TPL files in a hex editor and look at it's end... You must be able to see a repeated sequence of numbers with a fixed 4 byte number and another increasing 4 byte index". This seemed a bit confusing as I wasnt sure how to read the table properly, or find a set of numbers that looked like the image you posted in this tutorial (I also didnt know the size of the width in the HEX table to use, which qould change how the numbers appear). This being said, I am confident that 01000000 is the file that i need to work with. 
 I extracted the content from the original ImagePackHD folders and using quick bms & the LFS script to extract it's compressed lfs archive along with the YZ2tool to extract and view the original model textures.. 

So after the 'RE4_UHD_BIN_Generator.exe pl160a_changed.smd pl160a_changed.mtl 01000000 29' command is complete there are 3 new files generated:

pl160a_changed.tpl
pl160a_changed.bin
pl160a_changed.tcs

The TCS file reads:

file 29 = Kyoka0df0acc3.tga
file 30 = Kyoka0df0eye.tga
file 31 = Kyoka0df0face.tga
file 32 = Kyoka0df0gloves.tga
file 33 = Kyoka0df0dress2.tga
file 34 = Kyoka0df0acc2.tga
file 35 = Kyoka0df0back.tga
file 36 = Kyoka0df0dress1.tga
file 37 = Kyoka0df0legs.tga
file 38 = Kyoka0df0skirt.tga
file 39 = Kyoka0df0acc4.tga
file 40 = Kyoka0df0acc.tga
file 41 = Kyoka0df0hair.tga
file 42 = Kyoka0df0eyelash.tga
file 43 = Kyoka0df0white.tga

(one of the texture files was omitted for some reason)

The instructions say that I have must change the name of model textures to the numbers given in front of their names, awhile considering their names must be numbered after the defualt texture packages numbers. 

file 29= Kyoka0df0acc3.tga renaming to 0029.tga and so on for the rest. 

I then copied the original texture package (01000000) to the LFS Extractor folder and used the LFS script to change 01000000.pack.yz2.lfs to 01000000.pack.yz2 and then moved it to the same folder as the YZ2tool.exe tool and used the unpack-all.bat script to tool create a folder named 01000000 which now has all the exported textures in it (28 in total).

I then took the renamed .tga files mentioned above and placed them in the newly created 01000000 folder

At this point its a bit confusing because the instructions then say :

"After renaming and adding 'chris' textures to default texture package, you must use the default number of textures in the package (as first index of chris textures) as one of the inputs to Bin Generator tool for generating chris's BIN and TPL files". This part is confusing. If I were to use this deafault number (28) for the Bin Generator tool input my TCS file would start at 28, and then I would have to rename my first new texture 0028. This would not work considering there would already be such a file located in the original texture archive. 

Am I correct in the way that I used 29 at the end, because there are 28 textures in the default package? If not please explain further. 

The last part of converting the TPL & BIN files in UDAS is also confusing because is says to 'repack a new UDAS archive file. To do so, simply double click on UDAS_Generate.bat file', however there is no such file in the UDAS folder. There is only UDAS_Extract.bat and UDAS_Repack.bat. I used the UDAS_Repack.bat file as I have seen in Markos's video, so I am assuming this is just a typo in the instructions. 

I then copied this newly packed pl00.udas file into the Em folder and deleted the original pl00.udas.lfs file that was there. I did the same thing with the newly generated 01000000.pack file, and deleted the 01000000.pack.yz2 file.
I then launched game into first session where Leon model would be wearing the coat. The game crashed as soon as the model was attempted to load. 
 

I'm doing a video tutorial ... and I'm also going to teach how to convert the mods from re4 2007 to re4 uhd, have patience friend that will work, thanks for the tools, Son of Persia. With video tutorial to understand best

Thank you again Persia for your patience with users loike me, and your dedication to this.

I have a few questions about the BIN/TPL files. In order to make sure i am including ALL the parts of the model, I am assuming I have to open ALL these files and determine which files are connected. To do this, I have to match up their Hex values in a HEX editor, using 0x4 for the TPL files and 0x24 for the BIN files. Below is a summary of the BIN/TPL file values from the package pl00 (Leon)

   BIN Values            TPL Values

pl00_000.bin 08    pl00_001.tpl 08
pl00_002.bin 05    pl00_003.tpl 05
pl00_004.bin 05    pl00_013.tpl 02
pl00_005.bin 05    pl00_103.tpl 01
pl00_006.bin 08    pl00_105.tpl 01
pl00_007.bin 05    pl00_107.tpl 01
pl00_008.bin 05    pl00_109.tpl 01
pl00_009.bin 08    pl00_111.tpl 01
pl00_010.bin 02    pl00_113.tpl 01
pl00_012.bin 01    pl00_116.tpl 02
pl00_014.bin 02    pl00_119.tpl 01
pl00_015.bin 01    pl00_122.tpl 01
pl00_016.bin 02    pl00_123.tpl 01
pl00_017.bin 02    pl00_124.tpl 01
pl00_018.bin 02    
pl00_019.bin 02
pl00_020.bin 02
pl00_021.bin 02
pl00_102.bin 01
pl00_108.bin 01
pl00_110.bin 01
pl00_114.bin 01
pl00_115.bin 02
pl00_118.bin 01
pl00_121.bin 01

Listed above are 25 BIN files along with 14 TPL files and their HEX values. As you can see there is obviously not an equal number of BIN/TPL files, along with another issue: Many of the files have the same values, so the question would then follow: how can we be sure we are using the correct files together?

Example of the problem would be:

Both pl00_002.bin and pl00_004.bin have values of 05 to match the pl00_003.tpl file.
Then there are also two more files, pl00_007.bin & pl00_008.bin that also have values of 05, while there is only one TPL file that has a matching value of 05. 

It would seem that these BIN files could be sharing the pl00_003.tpl file, as I was able to combine pl00_003.tpl with all the other bin files with a value of 05. (one made the head, the other the hair, and some another made some object i did not recognize). Im not sure about this as there is no mention of shared TPL files in the instructions. Also, as a test I combined BIN& TPL files that did NOT have matching values, and was still able to produce models. This leads me to think that I have no real way of knowing which bin & TPL files actually correspond. 

So, if these files do in fact share some TPL files, what about the other numerous files that have 02, and 01 as values? How would i know which ones go together as there are numerous files with identical values? There must be some way to better understand how these all go together. 

Also, what is of these extra BIN files?

Thank you Markos for your attention on this

ok so it sounds like it doesn't matter which .tpl file I use then for the models. It sounded like from the instructions that if I did not match up the correct TL/BIN files it would not work. Your method sounds much easier. I am running tests today to see what works.

Can you tell me how to create a bin file transparent?

also do i need to open up ALL the BIN files ?

So if i am going to swap out an old 2007 model that has separate models for the hands, would I simply replace those model files (BIN & TPL) with the model files for Leons hands?

Here's my situation: the old 2007 model I have has a body with a head, so I am going to have to pack in an extra blank BIN file for that, but I am confused about the about the other parts.

So far I know here are the model files I have identified in Leon's package:
(the numbers in parenthesis are BIN# - TPL#)


body (0 - 1)
scalp & eyes (2 - 3)
face (4 -3)
hair (5- 3) (some parts of the hair seem to be missing)
vest (6-1)
unknown weird (7 - 3)
head with hair and face (8-3)
knife (9 -1)
lips (10-11)
Flashlight (12-103)
Right Hand Open 1 (14-13)
Right Hand Hitchike (15-13)
Left Hand Open (16 - 13)
Left Hand Jerk 1 (17 - 13)
Left Hand Hitchike 1 (18 - 13)
Left Hand Closed (19 - 13)
Left Hand open 2 (20 - 13)
Left Hand Jerk 2 (21 -13)
Grenade (102-103)
Rocket (108 - 109)
Pointed thing ? (110 - 111)
Rocket Launhcer (114 - 113)
Radio (115 - 116)
Bullet casing (118 - 119)
121 - Egg ? (121 - 122)

There seems to be two extra files, pl00_123.TPL and pl00_124.TPL. I am not sure what this means, if I missed something or not?

And here are the model parts I have identified for my 2007 model:

body with head (no hands)
hands 1
hands 2 (with missing parts)
hands 3
a floating target box
some other small round shape that seems to be there to fix a hole in the texture x2 (there are two identical model files like this)

A question I have is this: If my old 2007 model has things I dont want ot use (like modified weapons, or say that floating target) could I simply leave those out? Also, what should I do if the number of hand models in my old 2007 differs from the number of hand models leon has? Im guessing transparent bin files ?

From what I gather here, we are simply placing all of our older ported model files into a folder that contains our extracted model files form the UHD model, replacing some of the model files from the UHD version, along with updated texture indexes in the TPL files, then repacking it into a new UDAS file.