Here's a frehsly made Blender importer for Omikron: the Nomad Soul:

https://github.com/Chevluh/Omikron_Blender_Importer

sure, all the dialogue is in directory 02, which only contains text files, though I guess everything fight-related might be in the monster directory?. Anyway, character table can be found there, but no one's made an editor AFAIK

There's an open source remake of the engine, once abandoned but now relocated at http://code.google.com/p/fitd-reloaded/
Whatever information you need to read models is in there, though it's gonna take a bit of sifting through the sources.

I honestly don't know why no one's done it. Or at least, no one's released one publicly. It's a lot easier than other things lol. I mean sure you'd probably have to think about it maybe for an hour or so to figure out how you should actually write a parser, but it isn't too difficult. It's because ...

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I don't mean to sound dense or rude, but could you tell me why you would need to know how the textures are blitted for blinking? For visualization, duh. Sure, you can guess by looking at the texture, but an automated program can't, plus you sure can't tell me when the blinks happen unless you go ov...

Of course it does. I wrote a completely new shader just for that reason. In any case, is there anything else in FF9 we still don't have a way to get at? Seems like all the edges are covered... Textures, battle scenes, battle models and enemies, field maps and models... Are we missing anything? For ...

For Chev, How or where did you offset the v coordinate, is that in the Data Viewer? Makes sense, but not sure where to adjust the v-axis. Is there a setting in an older version of Noesis? Well, I'm using a custom FF9-only model viewer I made long ago, not noesis, so I have different options (and a ...

Regarding the weapons, they don't map correctly because in-game the weapon textures are blitted into a blank spot in the character's texture. For all practical purposes that means you should offset the v coordinate by 14 texels if you're reading from dir08 and everything will look fine, which I gues...

I already knew where to find the NPCs, just not their textures (going through PSX-vram isn't really what I'm going for, I'd like to create something that can get it all), and not how to match animations to the right NPCs (my viwer really just tries everything and displays the ones that decode correc...

So it can extract precisely what we know how to extract (: It is very handy, mind you, but as long as a topic like this exist there's a hope of figuring out the other stuff, like summons. Also, when you say models, does that include the NPCs? Or just battle models? World map objects do include airsh...

elric03200> It's not useless at all, we can get better looks at things than in-game, or even things that don't appear in-game at all, or things about the developers. For example, there's a hidden message written on one of the FF9 monster models , and that's something that never could have been lear...

We simply don't know enough about the format to repack files.

To get the bind pose (which is not necessarily a t-pose, and not even necessarily something that makes visual sense) you have to disable or not load the animations.

Blender uses python scripts. Can't import .max, though it can import some other file formats, plus, well, python's not that hard a language so if you can get a format descirption making your own importer's always an option (and in fact maybe someone's made a .max importer, but it's certainly not par...