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Issue running Nexus' model / texture converter

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Sargoth:
Official word from Nordic Game seems to be no support for mod tools (at the moment anyway). Do we have the skill to break these tools down and reprogram them? Or make new? Is it worth it?

Arparso:
In principle, writing a custom converter wouldn't be that complicated: the stock model/texture converter isn't all that fancy, too, and - except for the issues with modern OS's - works pretty well, right?

The crux will be file formats: in order to make a useful converter, we need to completely understand the file formats Nexus uses for its textures and models. Actually just for the models - I already reverse-engineered the texture file format before and should have my docs about it somewhere on my HDD.

Yeah, but the models. I know enough about that format to extract a Nexus model, even including animations and stuff... but there are still large sections of the file format that I just don't understand yet. Writing a converter before fully understanding the target file format will be ... pretty hard, I guess.

Maybe someone knows the original programmers, who designed that file format for Mithis, and could persuade them to help us fill in the blanks, if they still remember the details? Or just someone with a talent for reverse-engineering 3d data? ;)

Sargoth:
Plenty of old devs in the facebook group. Might even get help from Vincent. Will post a post.

Sargoth:
An update. The lead coder on Nexus came forward and released the source code for the converter. Hopefully that should give us enough insight to make a new one. ;)

On a side note, how are people feeling about trying to update Nexus assets? To do a community graphic enhancement?

GeoModder:

--- Quote from: Sargoth on December 14, 2015, 11:25:38 ---An update. The lead coder on Nexus came forward and released the source code for the converter. Hopefully that should give us enough insight to make a new one. ;)
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Wow. 8)


--- Quote from: Sargoth on December 14, 2015, 11:25:38 ---On a side note, how are people feeling about trying to update Nexus assets? To do a community graphic enhancement?

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Only Nexus assets? ;)
I would love to see/import new planet textures, surplus old earth meshes, and textures for those for a couple other corporations like AeroSpace and Orbital ingame. 

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