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Jurassic World Evolution

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Re: Jurassic World Evolution

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brmbgb wrote: Thu Dec 26, 2019 9:07 pm I'm having issues getting this new tool to work, following the instructions, I double click on the OVL_tool.bat, but nothing happens, it wont open for me. I'm not fully convinced I've got everything I need to get his going, could someone point me in the right direction or even just tell me how to get this to work, basically I want to change textures of some of the dinosaurs, so if I can extract the current textures to edit, I think it'll be a good start.
thanks.
Open run it in a cmd (type: python ovl_tool_gui.py) to see what error occurs; you probably did not follow the instructions correctly.
Sharppy wrote: Sun Dec 29, 2019 8:29 pm Seems that the new DLC dont work with anything. All the old files should work fine.
Here is the truck to the new DLC if anyone wants to take a look at it. I tried Model Researcher, cant seem to find the algorithm.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12sZNRO ... sp=sharing
I was able to decompress the file using Barbasol. It crashes or does something and just produces a .DAT file.
Here is that file.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b0wjc7 ... sp=sharing
Our tool (link posted by Harlequinz Eg0) works for the latest DLC still. Your RAR is missing the TourTruck.ovs.textures_l1 file, so the tool can not open the OVL archive.

Currently working on getting the tiled detail scales correctly into blender:

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Re: Jurassic World Evolution

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Yeah I cant figure it out. Tried for almost 4 hours now.. Nothing but errors.
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Could you maybe just open this file for me ?
https://drive.google.com/open?id=12sZNR ... XANi1HRnGF
BTW i do have the textures in the OVL folder. There are 2 files.
Greatly appreciate it.
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Re: Jurassic World Evolution

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Hi all,

I was able to get the OVL extractor installed and can successfully extract the MDL2, MS2 and PNG files (yay!). Per my blender add-ons, I've also been able to get them installed and have "checked" them to be enabled.

However, when I try to "import" Cobra or anything similar isn't showing in the available options. Is there something additional I need to do?

Thanks!
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Re: Jurassic World Evolution

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Either you haven't checked the box in the addons list to activate them or you're using a wrong blender version? 2.79 only for now, soon to migrate to 2.81. You can get support on this discord: https://discord.gg/3AjAbdZ
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Re: Jurassic World Evolution

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hi, yhe cobra tool works perfectly with planet zoo, but with Jw every model i try to open in the ovl tool gui, i have this error.: Could not find a fragment matching header types(2.2)
any help, please?
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Re: Jurassic World Evolution

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Harlequinz Eg0 wrote: Mon Dec 09, 2019 2:19 am Today is the day, Mod tools have been released after months of hard work by Hendrix, Neptune and I! Please head on over to the two pages for both the tool set and the blender plugin. Make sure to read both readme's as they contain installation, tutorials and troubleshooting instructions. Any issues can be reported to the bug tracker on the GitHub website. I hope you all enjoy the start of the modding scene for both Planet Zoo and Jurassic World Evolution!

https://github.com/OpenNaja/cobra-tools/releases

https://github.com/OpenNaja/cobra-blender/releases
Hi, Thank, great job!!!

Perfecto con Planet Zoo
Con JWE tengo un error: "unpack requires a buffer of 4 bytes"

Me puedes ayudar por favor. Muchas gracias.
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Re: Jurassic World Evolution

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Update cobra tools to latest release.
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Re: Jurassic World Evolution

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DMZT2 wrote: Wed Jan 08, 2020 8:28 pm Update cobra tools to latest release.
updated, but still the same error
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Re: Jurassic World Evolution

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Hi all,

I've been having trouble getting the ovl_tool.bat to work. When I first downloaded it and installed Python, every time I tried to run it, I'd get an error saying "This app can't run on your PC". I tried to retrace my steps and reinstalled Python numerous times. The tutorial says to use Python 3.6 or 3.7, I was using 3.8 so I uninstalled and reinstalled 3.7, I still got the same error. And yes I set it to the "path" whenever I tried to reinstall Python.

This morning I once again tried to retrace my steps by watching videos on how to properly install Python, as well as pyqt5 and imageio. I followed each one exactly and now when I try to reopen ovl_tool.bat I don't get the error message, but a command prompt window opens but closes after a second or two. Also when I try to run the file as administrator I get the "This app can't run on your PC" error again. I think another thing I should mention is whenever I try to run Python through the Run app on windows I get the "This app can't run on your PC" error.

All I want to do is increase the size of the Spinosaurus model, that's all. I'm no coder and I have no modding experience. I can't even get to editing models in Blender because I can't access MDL2 files because of these errors. I feel like I've followed every step exactly, but I can't get this to work. Any help would be greatly appreciated. If this thread isn't the right place to ask about this, where should I go? Sorry if that is a stupid question
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Re: Jurassic World Evolution

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If you have installed python with a launcher, you can also double-click the py files directly instead of the bat shortcuts. (for some reason they are no longer 'trusted' by default, lol - used to be different)

If that doesn't do the trick, open a cmd or powershell in the ovl-tools folder and type: python ovl_tool_gui.py
If it doesn't run, you've probably not installed a python dependency, post the whole error log.
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Re: Jurassic World Evolution

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Thanks for replying.

I tried what you said in regards to opening a powershell in the folder (cmd isn't listed as an option for some reason.) I typed python ovl_tool_gui.py
and I got this message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "ovl_tool_gui.py", line 9, in <module>
from pyffi_ext.formats.ovl import OvlFormat
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pyffi_ext.formats'

I'm not sure what you mean by a "python dependency". Do you mean pyffi 2.2.4.dev3, pyqt5 and imageio? I installed those, however I think I recall when installed imageio there was something in the message(I don't know proper coding vocabulary) that said something about the path or something. I don't know how to repeat the message.

I installed python with an exe file, Is that what you mean by launcher? Because when I do that a cmd window briefly pops up but disappears. Please excuse my complete noobiness and ignorance on figuring this out. Thank you for your help.

Update:

Good news, I was able to open the ovl_tool.bat. I used another version of cobra tool that I downloaded yesterday. It was simply called "cobra-tools" instead of "cobra-tools-master" in case anyone is wondering.

I was able to load the spino mdl2 file into blender and I seemed to scale it up as I wanted. Now I need to figure out how to actually get it to work in game. I followed the faq on GitHub on exporting it, but instead of applying the changes, it just made a copy of the original file(The unedited version). I'm not sure how you get modded models in game. I know it is really stupid to ask, but any help would really be amazing. Again, I have no modding experience nor am I a 3D modeler, I'm a complete noob on these sort of things
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Re: Jurassic World Evolution

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ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pyffi_ext.formats'
You downloaded the dev branch instead of a release.

Follow the instructions and tutorials, it's all written down.
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Re: Jurassic World Evolution

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I just downloaded the pyffi_ext-master file. I was missing that. I'm not sure what to do with it. I didn't see in the tutorials what to do with it and the readme doesn't say what to do with it. I tried putting it in the cobra tools folder and when I open powershell and type "python ovl_tool_gui.py" I get this:

"(null): can't open file 'ovl_tool_gui.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory"

The file is clearly in the folder, and I'm using cobra-tools-1.4.1. I have no idea what I'm doing...

Update: Never mind. I've figured it out. Disregard my previous messages. Thank you for your help again.
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Re: Jurassic World Evolution

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I am unable to open ovl_tool.bat so how do I do it?
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Re: Jurassic World Evolution

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PaleoKnight wrote: Sun Jan 19, 2020 1:24 am I am unable to open ovl_tool.bat so how do I do it?
Follow the installation instructions.
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