Railway Empires Train Engine models

[kingfisher13]

So I successfully unpacked the .fuk files of the Railway Empire game, because I absolutely love classic steam locomotives from the early days of trains, and this game has fantastic reproductions of them all. The game uses the Gaming Mind Studios Kalypso engine, the QuickBMS script can be found here: http://aluigi.altervista.org/bms/gaming ... os_fuk.bms

Thanks to Luigi for putting that together for us!
His script successfully unpacked the .fuk compressed game files, which created a complete file structure with names and everything. I'd like to propose that we figure out this game's model format, because I don't recognize it, and I haven't found any tools through my research that can open them. It doesn't help that Google search doesn't work well with vague search terms, such as "Railway Empire 3d models" etc etc.

So the game file structure and naming system is very simple, and it was easy to find all the files in each folder for each locomotive. I've put together a sample pack of the files for the Iron Duke locomotive for anyone interested to take a look at: https://sta.sh/027em6yb0ene

Is anyone else interested in this game or its models?

EDIT: I've attached screenshots of the file structure for your reference.

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[kingfisher13]

Ok, since my post got magically zero responses, I'll throw some money at the problem, hopefully that helps grease the gears.

I'm willing to pay anyone who helps me do what I asked a decent chunk of cash for their assistance, in US dollars.

[Karpati]

The link to the sample files does not work.

[Joschka]

Took a very quick look at the samples, vertices positions and UVs seem easy to get. Indices are obviously in the .ibuf files but had no time to see how they work.

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Here's the wip noesis script that I did real quick

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from inc_noesis import *
import os

def registerNoesisTypes():
	handle = noesis.register("train",".vbuf")
	noesis.setHandlerTypeCheck(handle, CheckType)
	noesis.setHandlerLoadModel(handle, LoadModel)	
	return 1
	
def CheckType(data):
	bs = NoeBitStream(data)
	if len(data) < 16:
		print("Invalid file, too small")
		return 0
	return 1

def LoadModel(data, mdlList):
	
	ctx = rapi.rpgCreateContext()
	bs = NoeBitStream(data)
	bs.setEndian(NOE_LITTLEENDIAN)
	dir = rapi.getDirForFilePath(rapi.getInputName())
	vBufFiles = [f for f in os.listdir(dir) if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(dir, f)) and f.endswith(".vbuf")]
	iBufFiles = [f for f in os.listdir(dir) if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(dir, f)) and f.endswith(".ibuf")]
	
	
	opcode = bs.readUInt()
	bs.readBytes(0x18 if opcode==4 else 0x24 if opcode==6 else 0)
	stride = bs.readUInt()
	bufferSize = bs.readUInt()
	vbuffer = bs.readBytes(bufferSize)
		
	rapi.rpgBindPositionBuffer(vbuffer, noesis.RPGEODATA_HALFFLOAT,stride)
	if stride == 0x24:
		rapi.rpgBindUV1BufferOfs(vbuffer, noesis.RPGEODATA_FLOAT,stride,20)
		
	rapi.rpgCommitTriangles(None, noesis.RPGEODATA_USHORT, bufferSize//36, noesis.RPGEO_POINTS, 1)
	try:
		mdl = rapi.rpgConstructModel()
	except:
		mdl = NoeModel()
	mdlList.append(mdl)
	
	return 1

No need for money or anything.
Probably don't expect me to finish the job, I'm quite busy with my own projects, good luck.

[kingfisher13]

Thanks for your help, hopefully someone can take your script and finish it. Also, Karpati the link does work, it hasn't been taken down, and I just opened it myself a few minutes ago to make sure.

Again, I'm offering a decent chunk of money via Paypal to anyone willing to work on this project.

[Sharppy]

if anyone has a second or know scripting i was hoping to update this script so it reads faces properly. anyone out there able to help ?
I was able to do many of them manually but i see this script can pull verts just not faces. anyone able to help me ?

I dont know scripting or i would attempt it myself. I tried to add face data but no idea what im doing.

Samples
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tJi8fn ... sp=sharing

[shakotay2]

loco_0660oldmaude0.model: seems there's a problem with the face indices.

What's the name of that model which worked for you?

[Durik256]

loco_0660oldmaude0.model: seems there's a problem with the face indices.

seems to be (ib0).ibuf have faces for all 3 models: (vb0, vb1, vb2).vbuf
for loco_0660oldmaude0.model.vb0.vbuf:
offset 5 >> indices count 179607 >> face 59869
(maybe even less)

loco_0660oldmaude0.png

[Sharppy]

Very nice this one has been brutal i haven't found anyone to get the mesh to parse properly.

[Plokman]

Oh my I do hope this moves along to include a setup for Blender, I love the engines in the game but the locomotive Dragon is one I want to see in modeling mode. Not to change it but to help me model a locomotive of the same class, B&O Memnon! Anyone know how to get STL files now?

[Durik256]

Oh my I do hope this moves along to include a setup for Blender

it's train time
[*.model, *.ibuf, *.vbuf]