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Extract to make STL file
« on: March 11, 2012, 19:37 »

I was trying to follow a PDF to extract items from ME2 but it keeps erroring and I don't know enough about this to know whats going on.

The instructions were:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cts=1331479771640&ved=0CCYQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.foundation3d.com%2Fforums%2Fattachment.php%3Fattachmentid%3D36627%26d%3D1266510164&ei=18RcT7SwNcmugQemsZCiCw&usg=AFQjCNEWtlg_0OXTUbwSGS0jKypI50AQLw

I only want to try and pull things like characters including Shepard and maybe some other items out and bring it into a program like 3DS Max to create a .stl file.

I'd paste the message from the cmd but I don't know how to copy it. In short it says something about too many unknown files - bad root directory?

Thanks for your help.
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Re: Extract to make STL file
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2012, 19:58 »

http://www.gildor.org/en/projects/umodel/tutorials
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Re: Extract to make STL file
« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2012, 19:59 »

I am guessing you have umodel in some strange place. Try placing umodel in the same directory and then write like this:

umodel -export -all package.ppc or whatever tha package is called. The words I saw in tutorial looked strange.

Why stl? Is it for 3d printning? Smiley
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Re: Extract to make STL file
« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2012, 20:09 »

I am guessing you have umodel in some strange place. Try placing umodel in the same directory and then write like this:

umodel -export -all package.ppc or whatever tha package is called. The words I saw in tutorial looked strange.

Why stl? Is it for 3d printning? Smiley

Yea its for 3D printing.

Edit: I copied the cookedPC file to my desktop and what was in the zip was extracted to the folder. Maybe I missed something? Its only 2 files and a read me right?
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Re: Extract to make STL file
« Reply #4 on: March 11, 2012, 20:11 »


I don't know how to follow this tutorial because that window that's open I can't find how to lunch it.
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Re: Extract to make STL file
« Reply #5 on: March 11, 2012, 20:26 »

Don't copy anything to desktop. Do like this:

Download umodel zip file. Take all those files in the zip to the "root folder of mass effect". So if you installed it to:

c:\game\mass effect

that is where you place umodel with it's files

Now you create a .bat file as described in the pdf.

Write umodel -export -all package.ppc and it should export the files into folders inside mass effect folder

The placement of umodel is quite important and that you create a .bat file that works. You must make sure that the bat file is not named umodel.bat.txt witch might happen when you do it in notepad and forget to change filename
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Re: Extract to make STL file
« Reply #6 on: March 13, 2012, 08:52 »

I tried that with both ME and ME2 with no luck.

Is the bat file really needed? can't I do the following for example in the cmd?

C:\Program Files (x86)\Mass Effect 2\umodel.exe -export -all BIOG_Female_Player_C_LOC_INT.pcc
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Re: Extract to make STL file
« Reply #7 on: March 13, 2012, 11:00 »

.bat file is not necessary if you are comfortable enough with command line.
I've noticed that you are trying to extract data directly to the "C:\Program Files" directory. Windows Vista or 7 will not allow you to do that unless you are working under Administrator. Check this:
Where I can find extracted files?
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Re: Extract to make STL file
« Reply #8 on: March 14, 2012, 06:11 »

I get the same message when tried copying the entire install folder to the desktop.
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Re: Extract to make STL file
« Reply #9 on: March 14, 2012, 06:15 »

Ok... So if I go to this link.

http://www.gildor.org/en/projects/umodel/tutorials

Can anyone tell me what launches that window that is open in the tutorial? Maybe this can help answer some questions.
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Re: Extract to make STL file
« Reply #10 on: March 15, 2012, 08:53 »

anyone?

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Re: Extract to make STL file
« Reply #11 on: March 15, 2012, 09:09 »

Check the FAQ.
umodel performs recursive scan from "-path" directory, you've specified the directory which has too much non-game files inside ("AppData" etc). Make a separate directory for this without "trash" inside, or better extract files directly from the game installation directory.
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« Reply #12 on: March 16, 2012, 04:42 »

Okay, finding that GUI in the FAQ helped a bit.

For now the only other question I have is, does anyone have a tip on how to extract what would be a custom Shepard?
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