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Nobby wrote:i know this thread is slightly old now, so i apologise for bumping but i thought id speak up anyway.

The marvel groups dump of MK works perfectly fine with umodel. i also didn't use the -lzo tag either, the only tags i used was " -export -all -noanim " i copied the main texture archive to the same folder as umodel, then copied each .xxx file i wanted to extract to umodels folder also, then i ran umodel. It extracted first go perfectly.

Alexis wrote: Strange! I just ended up using another dump.

Any luck on how the textures are set up... Obviously you have the diffuse, spec and normals (DXT5)... but there are a few things that have me confuzzled.

The diffuse texture has an alpha channel. I am not sure what it's main use in engine is.. (Seems to be Color change mask).

The Specular color texture also has an alpha channel. It is hard to tell what it's exact purpose is. (Perhaps it is the overall specular mask, or gloss texture, inverted?).

On top of those, the Pmsk textures. They almost seem to mask off the detail bumps... I do know that the alpha is an AO.

Nobby wrote:

Alexis wrote: Strange! I just ended up using another dump.

Any luck on how the textures are set up... Obviously you have the diffuse, spec and normals (DXT5)... but there are a few things that have me confuzzled.

The diffuse texture has an alpha channel. I am not sure what it's main use in engine is.. (Seems to be Color change mask).

The Specular color texture also has an alpha channel. It is hard to tell what it's exact purpose is. (Perhaps it is the overall specular mask, or gloss texture, inverted?).

On top of those, the Pmsk textures. They almost seem to mask off the detail bumps... I do know that the alpha is an AO.

As far as i can tell the pmsk files are mixer maps. Ex, the red controls one thing, the blue controls another and same with the green. similar to what soul calibur has. not too sure about the alpha maps on the diffuse and spec, my best guess would be, they have transparent parts to the models ( such as hair or clothing ) To be honest i haven't looked into it much, i only extracted them a couple of days ago and haven't had much chance to play with them since.

Have a look at THIS... It is a tutorial for texturing Soul Calibur4 models correctly ( which also uses mix maps ) it might explain it a little better than i can as far as i can tell it should be a fairly similar process.



Good luck..
Nobby

XLAX wrote:is there any easier way to import the textures in 3dsmax rather then doing it manually?

XLAX wrote:so no matter what i do, importing mk9 models in max will never be like a typical ue3 game whereas all that would need to be done is to extract the mesh with ueviewer then import into max and the models would be textured and ready to go.

its pretty wierd when using the actorx importer in max.
when importing a character it will ask for over 100 materials(material_1,material_2,etc...).
as far as selecting an element on the mesh, if you export as an obj from noesis first then import into max the model will already be broken up by element so i guess it makes it a bit easier to texture from that standpoint.