It also supports loading individual textures and UI elements.
Do not expect anything more than fixes for major bugs i.e. I'm not planning to reverse the missing animation semantics (I just grabbed the ones from my previous work on Luigi's Mansion 3) or anything similar.
Read the instructions carefully to get the most of this plugin.
Archive Extraction
-You can extract the dict/data pairs using quickbms and the attached script originally made by DKDave , that I modified slightly. It will create a folder along with a "dict_d" file. The file to be given as input is the one with the .dict extension. The rest happens in Noesis. -In Noesis, right-click on the "dict_d" file and click on "extract dict_d". Wait for the extraction to complete, you'll see an "Asset extracted" prompt when it's done. You will have several new folders, the ones with assets you'll be able to open are "Models", "Textures" (which has the textures and the sprites) and "Skeletons".
Gear System
-The characters in this game are split in several parts, the models located in the character folders only have the heads. To make it easier to view the assets, you'll have to use the gear UI.
VIDEO EXAMPLE
-To do that first extract the gear dict/data pair located in your dump's GearSets folder (just apply the "archive extraction" steps). Then open the noesis script in a text editor and put the "Models" folder's adress next to the "gearModelFolder" option, at the top. You only have to do this once (unless you move your extraction folder later obviously).
-That's it, now when you find your character's face model, just right click and click "gear equip" like in the video. The gears adapted to this character will be proposed, then just do like in the video to equip your character and animate him if you want to. A "load texture" option has been added since it was recorded, make sure to only do that when you're done choosing your complete set or it'll be slower to load due to all the loading/assigning/untiling overhead introduced.
Last notes :
-While I only apply the diffuse/normal maps on the character, all the character related textures will be loaded. You can preview these under "Tools->Data viewer"->textures and they'll be exported too.
-Textures/Sprites can be seen directly by opening whatever file located in the "Textures" folders.
-NLG seems to use a black placeholder for the outfits' parts that are supposed to have the team's color.
-Contrary to LM3, the concept of "animation packs" doesn't exist here. Fortunately anims related to a character seem to always be located in his dict/data pair so it's not a problem.
-Some skeletons won't match some of the little secondary models and some will rarely be misplaced. Some anims will also look wrong. All this would need more research but I don't have the time for that, consider this plugin as final, unless other people contribute.
That's it.
https://github.com/Joschuka/fmt_strik
