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Hello Gildor.
Here is the original ME3 pcc files:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/za87il

Can you take a look?

It looks like you have'nt yet read FAQ. I just make a quote from there:

What should I provide to you for support for some new game?
I need a few files:

1) game executable; note: I need non-encrypted file! For the PC it should contain a few "key" strings in ANSI and Unicode - one of them is a "USkeletalMesh". If this string is not present in the file - it is encrypted and useless for me.
For XBox360 executable is usually (or always?) named as "default.xex". It is encrypted, but decoder is available.
2) core.u and engine.u (for some games file extension may be "xxx").
3) startup_int package (usually present for cooked games).
4) file version report of the pkgtool - to let me make autodetection of this game with umodel.
These files should be compressed to reduce traffic - use Rar or 7zip.
NOTE: I'm not guarantee that I will support that game, but I'm usually cannot make something without that files.

It means that you must upload more than one archive.

P.S. Хех, какие шустрые однако. Уже спереть успели))

If I knew where it has to be.

Хотя мб уже кто-то другой у кого оно есть может выложить :D

OK, ME3 is not released yet but already available for preload. So, here is all necessary files http://www.sendspace.com/file/5e7jcz (http://www.sendspace.com/file/5e7jcz)
and example http://www.sendspace.com/file/0b3ygx (http://www.sendspace.com/file/0b3ygx)

Found 1 game files (6 skipped)
******** bioh_tali_00 ********
*** ERROR: assertion failed: size >= 0&& size < (256<<20)

appMalloc:size=-1472953676 <-FArray::Empty <- FPackageFileSummary<<:Ver=684/194 <- UnPackage::UnPackage:Bioh_Tali_00.pcc, ver=684/194, game=8000 <- UnPackage::LoadPackage:bioh_tali_00 <- Main

And question - where can i find pkgtool? Can't find in downloads section

Спереть то сперли, только вот .exe зашифрован/запакован ключом который будет доступен только в день релиза. Pcc архивы из утекшей версии вполне успешно открываются алгоритмом выуженным из демки. Кому интересно: описание формата - http://pastebin.com/4j4i13Tq, адрес функции в демке которая парсит заголовок pcc/upk архивов - 0x455640.

http://www.gildor.org/smf/index.php/topic,308.msg2979.html#msg2979

Please, speak English on English forum!

ran the tool on my origin preload and got this.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/803/capturexpk.png

The game executable is protected, it is not possible to perform reverse engineering.

Too bad. But maybe when nodvd comes out.

The game EXE is encrypted as a measure to prevent it from being run before the release. After the March 6th release, an online authentication system will decrypt the file. Until then, the EXE is useless.

I would assume that the demo exe is very similar to the final game's exe, so it might be usable.

So, here it is - non encrypted executable from released version. http://www.sendspace.com/file/qa847m (http://www.sendspace.com/file/qa847m)
ME3 is already available for asia region. I just switch my IP, and - ta-da - i'm an asian player now! ;D

I see someone has already posted a decrypted executable but just in case, here are all the required and decrypted files from the Xbox version

http://www.mediafire.com/?4uxu9yzqtufrmr6 (http://www.mediafire.com/?4uxu9yzqtufrmr6)

unencrypted cracked .exe http://www.mediafire.com/?pnn3xt74fi1bu8d
pass: @mhcvel

Thanks guys.

This exe is encrypted

XBox360 version is good when PC version is not available

This exe looks nice

I've spent some time on Mass Effect 3 and implemented package and texture support. Uploaded umodel, decompressor and extractor.
Notes:

• XBox360 packages could require "-lzx" command line options
• I've tested these tools only with files uploaded here, probably additional testing is required (this game has some unusual changes made to the engine)
• TFC support was not tested

I'll work on mesh and animation support later, when I'll get free time.

Just for information (for people who offered me to support demo version earlier)
Package format of the release game differs from demo version.

OK, it look like i have mistaken when uploaded exe. So here is a few different versions, in case if i mistaken again:

a standart exe from license copy of the game, i'm playing meltiplayer from it http://www.sendspace.com/file/xbkn92 (http://www.sendspace.com/file/xbkn92)
cracked executable, i used to play with dlc http://www.sendspace.com/file/lgmpvl (http://www.sendspace.com/file/lgmpvl)

Thanks, but I've already got a correct exe:

;D Well, anyway - thanks for incredible work!

Now, I just waiting for mesh and animation support. Nice work gildor.

Mesh and animation support is almost ready now.

Did I said recently that I love you? :D Thanks for support!

PC Files using cracked exe with DLC working

http://www.sendspace.com/file/06vxha (http://www.sendspace.com/file/06vxha)

What am I doing wrong?

E:\ME3\umodel_win32>umodel -view biog_hmf_arm_cth_r.pcc hmf_arm_cthb_mdl
Found 1 game files (5 skipped)
Loading package: BIOG_HMF_ARM_CTH_R.pcc Ver: 684/194 Engine: 6383 Names: 712 Exp
orts: 1829 Imports: 79 Game: 8004
Export "hmf_arm_cthb_mdl" was found in package BIOG_HMF_ARM_CTH_R
Loading SkeletalMesh3 HMF_ARM_CTHb_MDL from package BIOG_HMF_ARM_CTH_R.pcc
******** BIOG_HMF_ARM_CTH_R:  SkeletalMesh'hmf_arm_cthb_mdl' ********
*** ERROR: Serializing behind stopper (1011056+19418112 > 1630395)
FUE3ArchiveReader::Serialize <- TArray::SerializeSimple <- TRawArray<< <- FSkelI
ndexBuffer3<< <- FStaticLODModel3<< <- TArray::Serialize:0/3 <- USkeletalMesh3::
Serialize <- LoadObject:SkeletalMesh3'BIOG_HMF_ARM_CTH_R.HMF_ARM_CTHb_MDL', pos=
F6D70, ver=684/194, game=8004 <- UObject::EndLoad <- UnPackage::CreateExport:BIO
G_HMF_ARM_CTH_R.pcc:1625 <- Main

If I haven't done anything wrong, then here's the file in question. http://www.mediafire.com/?g75h4u7oumzl9v9

Did you read my message here before posting?
http://www.gildor.org/smf/index.php/topic,1252.msg10015.html#msg10015

Derp. I skipped over your last sentence in that post. :( My apologies.

The program is still not support for mesh and animation. I'm waiting gildor make it.

Umodel with full Mass Effect 3 support will be released yesterday (if I would have time).

So, Can you release it for now?

?

How'd about when you wait?

He probably wanted to say "tomorrow"

;D yes, "tomorrow", sorry. I'm sick a bit now.

Can't wait!

Get better man.

Well, umodel with Mass Effect 3 support were uploaded to this site. Enjoy.

Thanks a lot Gildor! Much appreciated :D

Yeah thanks a lot!

Thanks  :)

btw: for anyone looking for some character assets, try extracting the SFXPawn Packages which are also named after the enemies ( Nemesis, Centurion etc ).

as for naming conventions HMM and HMF is used to identify male or female assets, probably everyone figured this out, just mentioning it to save time searching stuff  ;)

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Yeah i already know that thanks. But damn, where they are hiding their weapon sounds. It dont seems that they are located in .afc archives... :-\

anyone happen to know where the animation for walking and so on is at and the normandy? it would be much appreciated

Try to look in Biop_ProNor packages. As i understand, in Mass Effect 3 all non combat animations are no longer stored in regular packages (such as biog_...). They have been moved for performmance optimization i guess.

Is anyone else getting super small textures from most of the packages? I'm looking at the textures in SFXPawn_Trooper right now, and they are all really tiny (mostly 32x32 pixel) and I've noticed this in quite a few other packages as well.
 Anyone have any idea where the full resolution textures are?

I think you are missing out textures.tfc, try putting umodel into the cookedpcconsole folder and extract again, or copy the tfc files to the package location

ah ok, you were right.  When I moved the files from my origin folders to my umodel location I only took the pcc files. went back and got the textures.tfc and it works great now. Thanks a ton :)

ah so i can't extract them....?, also i don't have a Biop_ProNor i got a Biop_Nor and there isn't any models in it

Is it normal that the diffuse textures are no bigger than 1024X1024 and all of the character's face normal map are even small(256X256)?

In a case of problem you'll get 64x64 textures. 1024x1024 textures are good.

Gildor
Hey man, i just wanted to ask is it possible that some of the sounds (Weapon sounds) are not in the .afc archives, but in .pcc packages may be?

I don't know. I'm even do not have this game.

Hello this is my first post. I tried to read the documentation, but i am not a good command line user. I didnt understand a thing about the documentation, its filled with errors and there is no guide on how to start. So i tried searching for videos on the main page as it says there are plenty of video tutorials in the page and i found none :(. Maybe i am looking it wrong. But i have a question, i am only looking for 2 models with the respective textures.
The reaper on tuchanka and ronnoch ( the 3d model seems to the be the same ) and Harbinger. I just got a 3d printer and i want to do a 40 cm tall sculture of them :).

Does any1 have them or can point me in the direction of how to use this program?

( btw i have the game in origin, using this program will alter files? i dont want to get banned ).

Best Regards

Damian.

Hi, welcome!
Check menu on top of the umodel page
http://www.gildor.org/en/projects/umodel/tutorials

Just a heads up, the only time Harbinger is in game is near the end and the model used then is just a lower poly version of the Sovereign class Reapers from earlier on in the game, its just missing the front leg:
(http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/8725/harbinger.jpg)
Left: Harbinger, right: Hi-poly Sovereign class
Note: I added the eyes on Harbinger (tricky to position since Sovereign isn't the right shape)

The colour difference comes from the textures themselves.  I guess they did this since you only see Harbinger once, in the dark and with only his lower half visible.

Using umodel will not modify your game files so you are safe from banning :).  Wish I had access to a 3D printer myself :D

Good luck

Well, if you really need Harbinger's model you should look at ME2 dlc "Arrival". I saw there this model, it have a few animations and fully textured.

@unsilent

I cant find an SkeletalMesh of the Normandy, Harbinger nor the Destroyer. I created a batch file to let it extract all ppc files, yet no luck finding those models there.
All I found were static models of Normandy and the Harbinger.

I miss the high res textures of ME2 - bioware what have you done! :(

I did the same thing but my batch file would skip over a lot of the files so I had to go digging in manually for all the cool stuff :P, I found a Skeletal Normandy, it is a cinematic version, I found it in one of the early Earth files.  I found a Skeletal Destroyer in a few of the end files.  I had to forward the command line output into text files as it would output more lines than cmd could display :p.

Do you happen to know which file you found the static Harbinger in?  The one I found was a SkeletalMesh that supports all of the animations for the Sovereign reapers I extracted from the early Earth scenes.

EDIT: Good call on the Arrival, huge differences between the ME3 (left) and ME2 (right) Harbinger model (I stole ME2 eyes and stuck them on ME3 as best they would fit ;) ):
(http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/9641/me2rb.jpg)

Also, the textures I get from ME2 and ME3 are both around 1K, what size are you getting?

*damn* Thanks for the hint! :)

Have to take a look when I am at home. But it was a lowres model.

also 1K - but ME2 had a few 2k Textures (for the normandy and I think a few characters).
But when playing ME3 It looks as if majority of textures are not even 1k - but I did not look for those meshes yet with umodel.

One guy created 4k textures for the ME2 characters - those look AMAZING applied to the model and rendered in max. :D
http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/128/index/5314761/1

so i don't think anyone answered my question back on the other page but, can you extract the walk and shoot and the rest of the animations, i know you can extract the facial animation, but what about that kinda of animation? ??? and if so where are they?

Hi Gildor. I wanted to ask, is there any way to extract .sfar archive? (Its a "From Ashes" DLC, size = 580MB).

Hi.
I don't know. I'm not extraction specialist :)

I see. Then, may be you can look at the file? I mean if umodel can be able to extract it... I can upload a file, but not sure if you want to download 580 MB :P
==========================================
Oh, well. Its ok now. I found a way to unpack that :D

I don't think this file is "package" so there is no reason to load it in umodel.

Check Rick's blog (http://svn.gib.me/builds/masseffect3/). There is a tool that allow you to extract everything from .sfar archive. By "everything" i mean .pcc, .afc and other files. It means that you still have to use UModel. Look for all-r61_b76.zip, use Gibbed.MassEffect3.UnpackSFXArchive.exe, it's command-line tool. Here is an exampl

(http://xmages.net/storage/10/1/0/3/3/upload/ab4dad16.jpg) (http://xmages.net/i/3433075)

Gildor, thanks for updating umodel to support Mass Effect 3!

It's been a while since I have used umodel and I was trying to use the umodel gui to view some models but I was getting this error.

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/2516/umodelgui.jpg (http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/2516/umodelgui.jpg)

I changed out the exe with a non encrypted one. Can someone help me out?

You should not open "Model" resource, it is not known to umodel application. Open SkeletalMesh and StaticMesh only.

That did the trick! Thanks, I totally forgot about opening the skeletonmesh.

Does anyone know where we can find the weapon and biotic attack sounds etc??

Instead of using a command line bat file, I tried PowerShell today - and this worked beautiefully. Batch extracted all pcc files.  ;D

Hi, I'm currently searching just for Harbinger model...

there is a small reaper (Destroyer) in BioD_Gth002_999Reaper

Is there way to export textures from Texture package?

I know I found Diana and her Hoverbot, but sadly I renamed the folder containing it xP, have you checked the Normandy files and Citadel files?
example...
SCRATCH THAT FOUND IT!

look for the file named "BioD_Nor_420StarCargo"
She should be in there, along with her bot. Cheerio mate! :D

I beleive that this was already covered.. but anywho..

try searching for the file named "BioD_ProEar_140Invasion" in skeletal meshes! :3

Weapons... try searching for the .afc files.

example... "SFXGUI_W_A_Vindicator.pcc" there you will find a series of sound files, that when compiled together will make the given sound of the rifle/weapon. Or the file named "SFXWeapon_AssaultRifle_Vindicator.pcc"
But if you're looking for heavy weapons sound effects like the mini nuke explosion.. it will be located in a seperate file for example titled "Wwise_Weapons_Heavy_MiniNuke.afc"

For biotic sounds they maybe located as files like... "SFXPowerMP_Slam.pcc" so on and so forth. Along with those biotic sounds you may also encounter a number of other power's sound effects like the "SFXPower_Overload.pcc"

And the if you noticed there is a "SFXPowerMP.." and a "SFXPower..." One designed for mulitplayer pressumably and the other for single player.

I hope this helps you! :D