2010-03-02, 05:22 PM
Well having a lot of experience with Som's stock assets I'd say the KF2 (ie. KF3) stuff is more than adequate for the most part. Som like I said is more off the back of ST. Of course you can bring in all original stuff however going that route won't make even a small fraction of the dent you could get by effectively leveraging the entire art dept of From' Software for the years that produced KF2 and ST combined.
As for getting at that stuff, if you just aim for the models and texture maps (no animations etc) that is pretty well trodded territory when it comes to ripping data from PSOne game discs.
Todd appears to have already collected all of the model data probably for KF2 and KF3 however he maybe didn't have the texture data, however it should be easy to come by from what I understand at this point. Basically you just need to have the iso for the game you want (the same file you'd use to play it with an emulator) and to use some homebrew applications which have been developed over the years and are available online... perhaps combined with a little detective/research work (reading webpages and experimentation etc) ...the only particularly heavy lifting work might be sifting thru all the files and matching textures with the models they belong to and naming the files accordingly in logical sets.
Ripping TIM and TMD "files" is pretty straightforward business as things go.
As for getting at that stuff, if you just aim for the models and texture maps (no animations etc) that is pretty well trodded territory when it comes to ripping data from PSOne game discs.
Todd appears to have already collected all of the model data probably for KF2 and KF3 however he maybe didn't have the texture data, however it should be easy to come by from what I understand at this point. Basically you just need to have the iso for the game you want (the same file you'd use to play it with an emulator) and to use some homebrew applications which have been developed over the years and are available online... perhaps combined with a little detective/research work (reading webpages and experimentation etc) ...the only particularly heavy lifting work might be sifting thru all the files and matching textures with the models they belong to and naming the files accordingly in logical sets.
Ripping TIM and TMD "files" is pretty straightforward business as things go.