Well I'll ask Oleg for details about how this could be done.
Also Midnight Club can be supported as its format is not very different from MM2. But it's not at top atm.
Maxoff added "support for strips" to his filter. What is it and how does it affect the model?
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Great work with everything.
Add automatically the paintjobs suffixes is useful and comfortable. It's already so with the Maxoff's PKG filter for ZModeler 1.07, but he hasn't done the best choice using letters than numbers. So, see to add it, and using numbers from 1 to 10, at least.
Add automatically the paintjobs suffixes is useful and comfortable. It's already so with the Maxoff's PKG filter for ZModeler 1.07, but he hasn't done the best choice using letters than numbers. So, see to add it, and using numbers from 1 to 10, at least.
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I'm afraid I did not understang the whole thing, but let me explain what I meant.Great work with everything.
Add automatically the paintjobs suffixes is useful and comfortable. It's already so with the Maxoff's PKG filter for ZModeler 1.07, but he hasn't done the best choice using letters than numbers. So, see to add it, and using numbers from 1 to 10, at least.
I suppose you know about the following well, but I'll explain anyways.
When you export with Maxoff's filter you specify paintjobs in export dialog. In your material editor there are only, say, 5 materials before exporting. You choose suffix - substring which will identify different paintjobs. And you specify other substrings which will replace this suffix in original materials. And these 5 materials result in 5*numOfPaintjobs shaders.
In PKG there is no any information about these suffixes: only number of paintjobs, shaders per paintjobs and sequence of these shaders. You can give materials virtually any illogical names, it'll work if they point to existing textures.
The point is that when you export, all information about these suffixes is lost. My question is how to recover it and is it worth it?
It's a bit messy explanation but I hope you understood.
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The suffix replacing is necessary only for the ZModeler's filter for the creating of the vehicle type .pkg file with the multiple paintjobs. In the PKG format there isn't anything about them, indeed, there are instead only those info that you say, which are the ones required for the PKG format. So, isn't necessary recover suffixes info for the PKG format, they're not needed for it.
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Thanks, thats quite what I expected to hearThe suffix replacing is necessary only for the ZModeler's filter for the creating of the vehicle type .pkg file with the multiple paintjobs. In the PKG format there isn't anything about them, indeed, there are instead only those info that you say, which are the ones required for the PKG format. So, isn't necessary recover suffixes info for the PKG format, they're not needed for it.
I just spent several hours fixing .tex reading. Either mm2wiki or TGA specification lies about color order. I almost fixed it so textures appear as intended.
BOUND reading is almost done as well, so import is almost ready.
ALMOST.
Alpha version is at my dropbox
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It requires ZModeler 2.5.5. Not 2.2.6, because it's the latest version SDK is available for.
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@RoadTrain, also update the topic on ZM Forums, Oleg may want source code for even ZM3 . He said "game is old and outdated" and never said anything else. We'll show him XD
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I'll contact Oleg later on the topic. There are still significant challenges, so I think it's premature.@RoadTrain, also update the topic on ZM Forums, Oleg may want source code for even ZM3 . He said "game is old and outdated" and never said anything else. We'll show him XD
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If anyone is experiencing crashes on ZM exit, let me know. I suppose I messed with memory allocation somewhere.