Spotlight: Señor Casaroja's Noesis

[MrAdults]

Never realized that would be an issue.

Well, as long as it works lol
I'd like to believe not too many games will use such large textures anyways?

Also when writing plugins, sometimes I can crash noesis by causing exceptions during the plugin checking stage.
Namely, if I do something common like

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idstring = noeStrFromBytes(bs.readBytes(5))

And it doesn't like those bytes.
Any way to prevent people like me from carelessly not putting that in try blocks?

It works fine for me. I can't produce a crash by reproducing an exception with this exact line of code. If you can get it to happen again, go ahead and submit the crash when it asks you to.

Unless...by crash, you mean it shows the Python exception dialog? If you write Python code that raises an exception, you're going to see the exception. It wouldn't be wise or desirable for me to change that behavior. As you already mentioned, as well, you can use a try/except if for some reason you really want to write code that you know might raise an exception.

[MrAdults]

I revisited FF8 in Noesis 3.79 to add support for the Zell and Kiros weapon models. While I was at it, I wrote a bunch of .noesis files to tie some of the character and weapon models together, they're attached in a zip. Extract them all to a folder containing battle models from the PC version of FF8 and you should be able to load them with no modification.

[finale00]

Unless...by crash, you mean it shows the Python exception dialog? If you write Python code that raises an exception, you're going to see the exception. It wouldn't be wise or desirable for me to change that behavior. As you already mentioned, as well, you can use a try/except if for some reason you really want to write code that you know might raise an exception.

Oh. Ya, that's what happens.
Python raises an exception.

So if I have two plugins and one of the plugins assumes the header is a valid ASCII string and the file I pass in for the other plugin I'm testing doesn't start with a valid ASCII string, the first plugin will complain and then I can't view anything until I realize I need to catch the exception.

Of course rather than hardcoding an ASCII string, I could always just compare bytes.

[hatyn]

oh noes...dead or alive

[itoikenza]

MrAdults could you tell me which one of the .mch is rinoa in tan mini skirt from seed party? and which format can i make it from biturn to show up in noesis?

[LUBDAR]

MrAdults could you tell me which one of the .mch is rinoa in tan mini skirt from seed party? and which format can i make it from biturn to show up in noesis?

There's no battle model of Rinoa in a tan mini skirt.

[itoikenza]

MrAdults could you tell me which one of the .mch is rinoa in tan mini skirt from seed party? and which format can i make it from biturn to show up in noesis?

There's no battle model of Rinoa in a tan mini skirt.

i know. i think it's a field model. from when rinoa first met squall. just before the fmv dance...

[LUBDAR]

I think noesis works for battle models only

[finale00]

viewtopic.php?p=65012#p65012

Are there any functions I can use when it comes to PS2 formats? Seems like there's some common stuff amongst PS2 formats.

Also,

You know how in fighter games they have 1P and 2P character colors?
Is there a way to imitate that in noesis when loading a model so that I can just scroll through the models and view different colors?

Also what if the model has different clothes. Is there a way to load the meshes so that I can do some sort of "mix-and-match" in preview mode?

[MrAdults]

There are PS2 texture functions for untwiddling. Internally there is a VIFcode parser/emulator, but it's fairly primitive and I don't feel it's final enough to expose to the API yet. It's only used for Bujingai and The Bouncer right now if I recall correctly. There's also a R5900 CPU emulator in Noesis, but again it's also fairly incomplete and doesn't emulate the full instruction set, and is only being used for emulating some decompression routines right now.

For your other questions, use multiple models. You can share or duplicate materials between models and do whatever you want in terms of using different meshes/materials/textures/etc., and cycle between models in Noesis with the cycle models button/shortcut key. If you want to cycle clothing items, you can use multiple models to represent different configurations, or you can just put them all in one model and toggle each mesh's visibility in the data viewer.

[finale00]

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  return noesis.mat44FromBytes(otherBytes, bigEnd)
TypeError: an integer is required

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matrix = NoeMat44().fromBytes(transform)

transform holds 64 bytes that are a bunch of floats.
Integer is required?

And here's a model of a card



I get this a lot, but I'm not sure why it happens, or why people would store the data this way. If I were to describe the issue it would be "mirrored"

Do I flip the UV? Or do I flip the model?

[MrAdults]

You're calling it wrong, you want NoeMat44.fromBytes(transform) because it isn't an instantiated object method and rather returns the new object.

Couldn't say just from the screenshot if it's image, UV's, or model coordinates, but it's most likely the model coordinates. Which would mean you need to flip them on one axis to see them as intended, because the engine in question is probably using a left-handed MVP matrix.

That assumption may be less likely if you don't have the skeleton and weights working, though. Lots of games will end up using negative bone root scales to flip their geometry back around, so it only looks backwards pre-transform. I've also seen games that only flip the geometry back around with the actual animation data, where the root skeleton is still flipped along with the geometry.

[hatyn]

Mr Adults, have you ever seen anything like these files before? Your input will be greately appreciated in my quest.

PokaPoka FLVER (with import script to blender -> viewtopic.php?p=56482#p56482 )
http://xis9.com/pokapoka.flver

Armored Core: For Answer FLVER
http://xis9.com/armored.flver

Dark Souls FLVER
http://xis9.com/ds.flv

http://xis9.com/ds2.flver

thanks for reading!

[RacingFreak]

Awesome tool MrAdults!

Seeing it does support universal formats for Dreamcast, but however, it cannot open models from Metropolis Street Racer, great game for the Dreamcast with a lot of car models. The format seems to be a pak, however Noesis couldn't open it

Here's example for the Alfa Romeo 159 files:


It will be awesome if Noesis could support it !

[alon]

Mr Adults, have you ever seen anything like these files before? Your input will be greately appreciated in my quest.

PokaPoka FLVER (with import script to blender -> viewtopic.php?p=56482#p56482 )
http://xis9.com/pokapoka.flver

Armored Core: For Answer FLVER
http://xis9.com/armored.flver

Dark Souls FLVER
http://xis9.com/ds.flv

http://xis9.com/ds2.flver

thanks for reading!

They have different the software maker and file's properties even though they are the same flver files.
Another Century's Episode R - From Software / Banpresto
http://www.mediafire.com/?cnc1zwatgbaprod
Another Century's Episode Portable - From Software / Bandai Namco Games
http://www.mediafire.com/?b9mvx7wrtu1fh0g
Armored Core: For Answer - From Software / Ubisoft
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=7834
Dark Souls - From Software / Namco Bandai Games America
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=7852
MonHun Nikki: Poka Poka Ailu Mura - Capcom
http://www.mediafire.com/?5zrclo3r7c734i7