MK9

[Gildor]

1. The skeleton mesh in exported to 1 only mesh. like it is a combine of a lot of mesh.
    Is the only way to import it to max? now looks like 1 mesh have 50 shading attached.

Mesh is exported "as is", without any combine operations.

2. I can't import the models with texutres in max. i follow the data in this forum but looks like don't work with this game or i doing stg wrong.

MK mesh should be imported into Max like for any other game.

can you tell me if is working the importer with textures support for MK9 please?

it should work

[Nobby76]

Just wanted to say, i did my first MK extraction tests today,  first one didn't work, then i realised i hadn't actually updated UE viewer  to include the MK extraction yet
after i updated it worked first go, tested it on the first file i found which was the file AVA_wireframe  looked like a standard xbox avatar model.  everything seemed to import ok. so that was cool. now to start ripping apart all the models 

Once again guys you outdid yourselves, awesome job on getting MK working.

Nobby76

[Gildor]

Thanks Gildor. i found the error.
In the Importer you don't have to select the material folder. you have to select the Extracted Package folder

That's not an error. You've just discovered how to use importer in a right way
There may be a lot of material folders and a lot of texture folders, so for automatic texturing you should select parent of all these folders (usually it is a directory where you've exported assets), and enable "recurse" checkbox.

[Gildor]

This package (and some other MK packages) has 2 meshes inside: one is low-poly and well textured, another one is hi-poly and it has "strange" texturing. Hi-poly mesh has 2-pass texturing: the 1st pass maps mesh material, the 2nd pass (I think) adds some additional effects like pain skins etc (I haven't seen the game so I can suppose only). In the umodel viewer 2nd pass overrides mesh texture and mesh appeared on the screen with "default material", i.e. untextured. There is no way to remove 2nd pass, it's too MK-specific.
I don't know whether 1st pass UV mapping is correct or not. MK has 2 UV channels for skeletal meshes, umodel has support for the 1st channel only.

[LordAbortion]

You have not specified, but probably you've trying to extract PS3 files. I think these files are encrypted and require decryption before use.

How could one go about decrypting ps3 files? If I understand correctly, we can't get models from PS3 version, but hi-res textures are a possibility. If I'm correct, I'd love to find someone who's extracted the various CHAR files as I haven't been able to get any of my PS3 Kollector's files to work properly, I got a few messed up normals, but that's at least extracting something, I may not understand the process completely, but I will be paying close attention to everyone's posts to try to snag some info. Does anyone have CHAR_REPTILE_C while I'm taking up your time? Thanks for everything, especially Gildor!

[LordAbortion]

IF ITS PS3 YOU MUST USE THE -PS3 SWITCH!

It says it when you run UE, I saw it straight away I don't understand how people are missing this?

Forgive me, I'm sorry that nobody made the correlation between the"-PS3" Switch and "Decryption," that's how it was missed. I'm sure you have a pressing thesis on quantum electrodynamics to be working on, so sorry to pull you away from your important work, Professor.

Now that I'm done being a dick, the -PS3 switch seems to have no effect, I can extract the X360 packages, a user posted Jade a few posts back and that works fine, but even after decompression, it seems UE does not enjoy my rips, citing cannot find package as the error. I could probably just be patient, and wait for someone to upload additional characters, especially considering skeletal meshes from PS3 are ridiculous.

[LordAbortion]

I'm sure you have a pressing thesis on quantum electrodynamics to be working on, so sorry to pull you away from your important work, Professor.

Haha while I appreciate your sense of humor, that rather douchey remark was not directed at you, apologies Gildor!

That's a standard error when you're using umodel incorrectly. Post your command line here. (but most probably you've extracted packages somewhere where folder name has a spaces inside, and forgot to enclose filename into the double quotes)

I think I got it right, I used cd c:\temp\unpacked umodel -export -ps3 -noanim -nomesh CHAR_SUBZERO_C.XXX, the nomesh was the most recent addition that I believe made it work.

PS3 MK skeletal meshes are not supported.

PS3 does everything the lame way, while the superior hardware IMO, the coding and programming seem a bit silly in comparison to others. You're quite the badass for doing this well with it!