2010-05-19, 09:23 AM
Man I wish had not had all these computer blow outs, but it's given me a lot of time to catch up on a lot of stuff I'd been neglecting.
I was on the cusp of handing you guys a fully functional MDL importer (and hopefully an exporter to the likes of .x soon there after)
If you (collectively speaking) have ambitions to make completely new monsters/npcs even traps and doors and stuff, you might want to go ahead and get started working on them. It will probably take you a little time to prepare things and it would be really nice if I had some real tangible goals to achieve for some people while I work out the kinks.
I'm thinking within about a months time this should be a reality anyway.
@Todd, if you want to start animating a Guyra monster for DD that will be totally doable. Small warning, the "Dragon Newt" monsters cross over at least half the maximum number of bytes allowed for soft animation and the importer will probably not compress the animation data nearly as well as Som's files for some time (you'd really need a Som centric tool for doing that ... or figure out what PSOne SDK tool the team was likely using)
^A really epic Guyra could consist of multiple body parts that could turn to face the player as long as the body sat more or less still in the middle.
I was on the cusp of handing you guys a fully functional MDL importer (and hopefully an exporter to the likes of .x soon there after)
If you (collectively speaking) have ambitions to make completely new monsters/npcs even traps and doors and stuff, you might want to go ahead and get started working on them. It will probably take you a little time to prepare things and it would be really nice if I had some real tangible goals to achieve for some people while I work out the kinks.
I'm thinking within about a months time this should be a reality anyway.
@Todd, if you want to start animating a Guyra monster for DD that will be totally doable. Small warning, the "Dragon Newt" monsters cross over at least half the maximum number of bytes allowed for soft animation and the importer will probably not compress the animation data nearly as well as Som's files for some time (you'd really need a Som centric tool for doing that ... or figure out what PSOne SDK tool the team was likely using)
^A really epic Guyra could consist of multiple body parts that could turn to face the player as long as the body sat more or less still in the middle.