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The Surge 2 - Help needed for quickbms

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The Surge 2 - Help needed for quickbms

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I am trying to extract the models from The Surge 2 using quickbms, but I just get an error "invalid command or argument 1, line 11.
Could anyone help me? Thanks.
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Belghen wrote: Sun Dec 19, 2021 7:09 pm I am trying to extract the models from The Surge 2 using quickbms, but I just get an error "invalid command or argument 1, line 11.
Could anyone help me? Thanks.
can you supply a sample file?
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What do you mean?
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Belghen wrote: Mon Dec 20, 2021 12:49 am What do you mean?
Supply a sample file so someone can look into your said issue.
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Thanks for the reply; I was able (I think) to unpack the files, but now I have hundreds of files with no extension and .bin files that I can't handle. Some of these files (without extension) are textures and I can just rename them adding .jpg/tga etc, but I can't find the models/meshes.
Anyone have some tips?
The .dat files are too large to post.
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Re: The Surge 2 - Help needed for quickbms

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Belghen wrote: Tue Dec 21, 2021 4:01 am, but I can't find the models/meshes.
Anyone have some tips?
The .dat files are too large to post.
Without some basic knowledge of 3D formats it's not easy to check hex data.

(The following example e3m was NOT taken from The Surge 2, btw.)

A simple check would be the one for existing unsorted alphabets such like:
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unsortedAlphabet.png
If you find something like this then there's a good chance that it is accompanied by mesh data (vertices as floats, half floats or integers).
(But that's not 100% reliable.)

Even simpler you could do a search for 000001000200 (sufficient but not necessary condition).
(For big endian you'd search 000000010002.)

remark: in former post I wrote "scrambled" which doesn't have the meaning I thought of (not being a native speaker).
So "unsorted" should name it better.
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Tuts: a) Bigchillghost, viewtopic.php?f=29&t=17889
b) Extracting simple models: http://forum.xentax.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=10894
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