quote="lionheartuk"] Would you mind if i were to ask what your are working on now for Solidus. Ie: mgs twin snakes, MGS2, MGS3?[/quote] Nothing much at the moment, I'm afraid. X_Tra is working on the MGS3 decryption. I could use some more TTS kmy files to work on, if you want me to do that...

BeeswaX wrote:could someone send me an older version of solidus the 1.8d exports the textures wrong

Whoops.
Stupid typo, grab 1.8e, should be fixed now.

IT SEEMS asthough there is a new versoin of Solidus avaliable. So far ive done everyting normal with it and i FOR THE LIFE OF ME cant figure out whats new in this version, can SOMEONE please enlighten me as to whats new? That version is a month old (see the build stamp, 06/10/06 3:40), it's the las...

New build up.
Couple of small fixes here and there + added type 3 decoding.

BTW, I'm pretty sure those "strange" textures in the area files are lightmaps containing (low-res) lumel data, so yes, they're supposed to look like that.

Turfster wrote:including 2 types of luminance/intensity textures (so yes, the greyscale stuff is supposed to be greyscale =p)

Yes, it's a freaky system, no, I didn't design it =p
Also, alpha isn't stored separately, check the files.

And another new build up. This build fixes the decoding errors in the previous GC texturetype and converts 3 more texturetypes, including 2 types of luminance/intensity textures (so yes, the greyscale stuff is supposed to be greyscale =p) I think I found just about all the texture types the game use...

Acess violation at address 0049F44E in module 'Solidus.exe'. Read address 00000000 Any ideas as to what causes this and it I can fix it? Whoops, my bad, fixed in the new build . Also in the new build : * faster gamecube data file extraction * one gamecube texture type decoded (couple more to go) ht...

A note about the evx conversion into OBJ format. I think there is some problem about vertex order in the OBJ file because the faces are correctly ib place but some of these are turned in the weong direction. I post some screen to let you understand (taken from milkshape but the result is the same a...

And in this week's build , we bring you : * (static) EVX to OBJ conversion No bones yet, but at least all files should convert now * stage, face and slot.dat file extraction I've coded up some stuff that *should* allow you to extract files from the above dat files in the PC, PS2 and GC versions of t...

but soliduz didnt want to read it. That's because they're really almost nothing like the PC XTI files ;) Here's what I *think* the files look like (this should get you started, anyway) : Note : This is basically guesswork, based on 2 files (mrl_def and mrl_dis). Values are *big*-endian, not little-...

Aaaaaaaaaaand... say hello to our friends Otacon http://users.skynet.be/fa299024/MGS/otcevx.jpg and Snake http://users.skynet.be/fa299024/MGS/snaevx.jpg Anyway, these are some teaser images of the current progress on the EVX files. I can pretty much convert all the face dir EVX's to a static model, ...

Hm... Have you tried unswizzling the image?

I've attached a copy of STUNS (stupid uncompressor) to this post.
Deflate is a generic compression algorithm.
As for the MGS2 work, there's quite a lot left, really.

From a (very) quick peek at one of the files, I'd say you first have a 2048 byte header which contains at least some of the following : number of objects in the file (first 4 bytes) endedness indicator? (next 2 bytes) ? (next 2 bytes) unpacked size (next 4 bytes) package identifier (my guess is offs...

And another small update , this time I added the KMY model preview - both wireframe and flatshaded mode. They look kinda shitty due to the degenerate triangles etc, but hey, it's just a preview, right? Also did some more code cleanups/optimizations. Tell me if I broke something ;) 3D preview window ...