Splinter Cell Series (SC1-4)

[Joshhhuaaa]

I guess offline version of Chaos Theory and the rest of Double Agent wouldn't be supported for now, at least not until I'll get the idea behind their custom serialization, especially for struct properties. And Chaos Theory (offline) is using non-standard geometry - like triangle strips or quads - for most meshes, which is not supported by umodel in general.

Yeah, I already knew that Chaos Theory and Double Agent's offline won't be getting any further support for now, I just thought I'd share most of the Texture packages have a method to be extracted if anybody wanted them.

Was adding support for the Animation/SkeletalMesh for SCPT Versus and SCCT Versus considered difficult/unlikely at the moment? Those could be useful for something else I'm working on.

I've been trying to fix UnrealEd 3 (UE2) for modern hardware/Windows currently with a few people, so hopefully I'll have good news to share with that, but kinda unrelated with UModel.

[Joshhhuaaa]

@Joshhhuaaa: I have plans to look into the series again when I have more time, but not right now.

No problem, thanks for the current progress so far. If I get anything else to share in the future that may help with extracting assets, I'll update them here.

[Firblind]

Just posting here to also show interest in the possibility of the other three games in the serious with further support. Already EXTREMELY grateful about the first game getting StaticMesh support.

[spiritovod]

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.

[Joshhhuaaa]

Static meshes from Double Agent (online) are now supported as well. Though they're using custom material class for most materials and thus they don't work.

Hey spiritovod,

I was recently working with SCDA Online assets and know that custom material classes are not easy to implement into UModel. However, I was wondering if it’s any easier to simply read what the material IDs are instead of just putting null. To clarify, I would like to know the names of the materials on meshes. I don't really care about them displaying in the viewer correctly, it can stay using the null textures visually.



So, is it possible for you to easily get the names of the Material IDs instead of them being null? It would be really helpful if the material IDs were listed or included in the props.txt file. I was just curious if this is just as difficult to implement as displaying them.

[Joshhhuaaa]

@spiritovod Alright, no worries then, I wasn’t sure if that would be any easier. For most of the assets, they use the “BasicModernMaterial” on SCDA Online, which I assume is similar to the “scx_basic_material” custom material class from SCCT single player that you implemented.

Knowing the basic material’s name without its additional properties would help in my case because I'm only interested in the diffuse, normal map, and specular for the BasicModernMaterial. If you know the BasicModernMaterial’s name, its associated textures usually share the same name but with _D, _N, and _S suffixes.

[Pepsee]

Was there any insight as to the animation format? I know it is much different from standard unreal packages, but it can't stray that far away from the original format, right? I am aware animations are much more of a challenge than static meshes, but I really love the Chaos Theory animations and would love to be able to finally have a better look at them one day..