Splinter Cell Chaos Theory - StaticMesh

[Joshhhuaaa]

I assume it wouldn't be as difficult as Splinter Cell 1 isn't nearly as modified as SCCT/SCDA.

SC1 StaticMeshes format isn't modified, so it won't be a problem.

I'm currently working on a project on porting some SC levels to a different engine myself...

Most of the geometry was made by regular Brush, without which porting will be difficult / tedious .
Q: How do you want to port these levels without access to the geometry?

I've finished porting all of Police Station's BSP geometry to UnrealEd, maintaining exact 1:1 scale from original game. I measured everything manually and it took hours of work and is definitely tedious. I just need to figure out the StaticMeshes, and the lighting is going to be redone from scratch anyways, taking advantage of new engine.


If you know how to export StaticMeshes from the game, I would really appreciate it, thanks. Pandora Tomorrow would also be nice, but my focus is SC1 for now.

[Joshhhuaaa]

1. I did some apps way back - if not, I can write the new one (I should still have its files formats, so it won't be difficult).

Sounds good, I really appreciate it, thanks for taking the time.

2. At some point Ubisoft provided Pandora Tomorrow editor - check the net.

The Pandora Tomorrow Editor is for Versus mode, completely different engine build developed by Ubisoft Annecy, that would not help us for Ubisoft Shanghai's single player StaticMeshes.

3. Just curious: do you have a website or video showing your work? Cause I have hard time to believe to this '1:1 ... manual measurement' - unless you use some app to dump Direct3D geometry.

Yeah, I will share a video demonstration in a bit. It is very tedious to do, but as you said there is no way to just export the BSP/CSG brushes that is known for these games. I plan on doing more level ports, so I would like to get all StaticMesh packages for SC1 not just Tbilisi.

I have finished Police Station (part 1-3) all inside 1 Unreal map file, I will demonstrate it using SCCT Versus engine as the Versus Spy has the same unit speed / collision size as Sam in the single player games in SC1-3. This will eventually get ported to a superior engine.

[VendorX]

Forgot to mention: Ubisoft is working on SC1 remake - from the footage it looks more like port than remake/remaster.
So where is the point?
2nd. Fixing Gildors app will be faster - ask him.

[spiritovod]

Added initial support for static meshes to specific build from this topic. I only checked the first Splinter Cell though, but maybe it works with some other games from the series as well. Not sure about UVs, they seem scaled for some meshes. Also not sure about linking materials, but last value in sections may be reference to material object.

Update: Textures are partially being parsed in the updated build now, though it doesn't work for some meshes.
Update 2: Support for static meshes from Pandora Tomorrow (offline version) is added to specific build.
Update 3: Support for static meshes from Pandora Tomorrow (online) and Chaos Theory (versus) is added to specific build, without textures for now.
Update 4: Textures from Pandora Tomorrow (online) and Chaos Theory (versus) are now supported as well.
Update 5: Support for static meshes from Double Agent (online) is added to specific build.
Update 6: Support for static meshes from Chaos Theory (offline) is added to specific build (those from dynamic-pc.umd). Also a few fixes for textures from that version are added to prevent crashes.

[spiritovod]

Static meshes from Pandora Tomorrow should be supported now as well.

[spiritovod]

@Joshhhuaaa: I think the best contribution would be providing more info about game series in some structured form. For example, you can create dedicated topic in "Other games" section with list of games from the series and add some notes about existing variants on per game basis (online/offline/other platforms), used formats (native UE/proprietary with extensions), existing solutions (like editors, shipped with some games), compatibility with umodel from your own experience (for example, I doubt Double Agent is  actually supported, see this post), existing third-party tools for games formats and things like that. It would be much appreciated. Or you can just provide some feedback of your own choice, which may potentially help with future researches.

[VendorX]

Static meshes from Chaos Theory (offline) are now supported as well (those from dynamic-pc.umd). Also a few fixes for textures from that version are added to prevent crashes.

So what's the magics behind UVs? Can you elaborate?