pc game moding...
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J.R. Hudson
Spirit Animal
Re: pc game moding...
What exact games? I'm not sure how to extract files (have always wanted to for Audio purposes). Whats a .png file?
What exact games? I'm not sure how to extract files (have always wanted to for Audio purposes). Whats a .png file?
BLUESPIDER
DVXuser Ninja
Re: pc game moding...
Rich- If you have the actually game CD/DVD, sometimes it might contain the UV maps and textures form the game. I know some of my games I have like flight simulator has all the bitmaps for all the models. I don't know why that is but its there. Most games have their data files encrypted. But that dosen't mean you can't extract them. I know theres programs out there that will allow you to decrypt their files. I remember when I had dark forces and I wanted the light saber soundFX effects but the sound file had a encryption. So I went online and found this crazy program that extract those specal files to wav. I had all the starwars ligtsaber sound effects. that was long ago. Anyways dude good luck.
Rich- If you have the actually game CD/DVD, sometimes it might contain the UV maps and textures form the game. I know some of my games I have like flight simulator has all the bitmaps for all the models. I don't know why that is but its there. Most games have their data files encrypted. But that dosen't mean you can't extract them. I know theres programs out there that will allow you to decrypt their files. I remember when I had dark forces and I wanted the light saber soundFX effects but the sound file had a encryption. So I went online and found this crazy program that extract those specal files to wav. I had all the starwars ligtsaber sound effects. that was long ago. Anyways dude good luck.
BLUESPIDER
DVXuser Ninja
Re: pc game moding...
its an image file, i think.
its an image file, i think.
J.R. Hudson
Spirit Animal
Re: pc game moding...
Alot of games are designed to come with MOD kits included. (Black Hawk Down, Battlefield, Desert Combat). People turn games into completley different versions.
Alot of games are designed to come with MOD kits included. (Black Hawk Down, Battlefield, Desert Combat). People turn games into completley different versions.
Rich Lee
I shoot Pirates.
Re: pc game moding...
not really sure, the only game i have installed right now is half life 2...so i was thinking about trying to pull models out of that. i have been searching online since i posted it. just found out half life was made with xsi. maybe it will be even easier.
yeah, png is an image file...i have never used it, supposadly its a compressed file...but is lossless...so it would have the quality of an uncompressed file...but have small file size.
not really sure, the only game i have installed right now is half life 2...so i was thinking about trying to pull models out of that. i have been searching online since i posted it. just found out half life was made with xsi. maybe it will be even easier.
yeah, png is an image file...i have never used it, supposadly its a compressed file...but is lossless...so it would have the quality of an uncompressed file...but have small file size.
J.R. Hudson
Spirit Animal
Re: pc game moding...
I assume you have it for PC? Apparently there is a SDK for this game.
http://collective.valve-erc.com/index.php?doc=1054706261-80130200
http://www.halflife2.net/
I assume you have it for PC? Apparently there is a SDK for this game.
http://collective.valve-erc.com/index.php?doc=1054706261-80130200
http://www.halflife2.net/
J.R. Hudson
Spirit Animal
Half-Life 2Re: pc game moding...
Half-Life 2Re: pc game moding...
But wait, theres more!
http://halflife2.filefront.com
Look down left bar for :
Half-Life 2
» SP Cheats
» Downloads
- Maps
- Media
- Models
- Mods
- Official Releases
- Skins
- Utilities
- Video
- Wallpapers
- More...
Half-Life 2Re: pc game moding...
But wait, theres more!
http://halflife2.filefront.com
Look down left bar for :
Half-Life 2
» SP Cheats
» Downloads
- Maps
- Media
- Models
- Mods
- Official Releases
- Skins
- Utilities
- Video
- Wallpapers
- More...
J.R. Hudson
Spirit Animal
Re: pc game moding...
usually hot chicks for some weird reason.
usually hot chicks for some weird reason.
HansK
Veteran
Re: pc game moding...
[quote author=John Hudson link=board=Offtopic;num=1102306203;start=0#1 date=12/05/04 at 20:23:58]Whats a .png file?[/quote]
http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/png-gif
"PNG (Portable Network Graphics), an extensible file format for the lossless, portable, well-compressed storage of raster images. PNG provides a patent-free replacement for GIF and can also replace many common uses of TIFF."
[quote author=John Hudson link=board=Offtopic;num=1102306203;start=0#1 date=12/05/04 at 20:23:58]Whats a .png file?[/quote]
http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/png-gif
"PNG (Portable Network Graphics), an extensible file format for the lossless, portable, well-compressed storage of raster images. PNG provides a patent-free replacement for GIF and can also replace many common uses of TIFF."
Beat Takeshi
Two-Hip Shakur
Re: pc game moding...
I only know of games that use the unreal engine can be back modified. UnrealED is a map-maker program that comes with any game developed with the Unreal engine. From 99-2003 it was a ***** to convert a .UT (map) back into a mesh to be used with Max or lightwave. But now they have a direct conversion plugin for Maya to import and export maps. THe SDK might have a converter plugin or program but usually its the community that drives the accessability of making mods. If its a hot game and people are going through great lengths to creat these mods for clan scrims and stuff you will start to find home programmed utilities for things like mapping and meshing. Unrealtournament's community is one of the biggest FPS cummunities around and the number of maps created by users are in the thousands along with game play mods and charactors/skins. I would suggest trying modding in Unrealtournament first since its the easiest to work with importing and exporting but you have to use Maya unless you have a mesh converter and build in XSI, import to Maya, export to filename.UT2.
.PNG files are great for Flash animations where you need transparencies for blurred moving text and gradients using an alpha channel.
I only know of games that use the unreal engine can be back modified. UnrealED is a map-maker program that comes with any game developed with the Unreal engine. From 99-2003 it was a ***** to convert a .UT (map) back into a mesh to be used with Max or lightwave. But now they have a direct conversion plugin for Maya to import and export maps. THe SDK might have a converter plugin or program but usually its the community that drives the accessability of making mods. If its a hot game and people are going through great lengths to creat these mods for clan scrims and stuff you will start to find home programmed utilities for things like mapping and meshing. Unrealtournament's community is one of the biggest FPS cummunities around and the number of maps created by users are in the thousands along with game play mods and charactors/skins. I would suggest trying modding in Unrealtournament first since its the easiest to work with importing and exporting but you have to use Maya unless you have a mesh converter and build in XSI, import to Maya, export to filename.UT2.
.PNG files are great for Flash animations where you need transparencies for blurred moving text and gradients using an alpha channel.
monte
Bag of Douche
Re: pc game moding...
I used to map for HL (I worked on Counter-Strike, The Specialists, and Day of Defeat) my buddy nemesis can help you out...
Proggie called GFCScape, can open up GFC files and let you take out sounds, models, .bsps, et al.
His page seems to be down at the moment, so go to my old stomping grounds...
http://countermap.counter-strike.net/
I used to map for HL (I worked on Counter-Strike, The Specialists, and Day of Defeat) my buddy nemesis can help you out...
Proggie called GFCScape, can open up GFC files and let you take out sounds, models, .bsps, et al.
His page seems to be down at the moment, so go to my old stomping grounds...
http://countermap.counter-strike.net/
Re: pc game moding...
Getting into game modding now are we? Be sure to check out www.polycount.com and cgtalk.com The message boards on both of those sites are full of info for modding the latest game engines and are frequented by artists in the industry. Grab that HL2 SDK and you should be good to go.
Getting into game modding now are we? Be sure to check out www.polycount.com and cgtalk.com The message boards on both of those sites are full of info for modding the latest game engines and are frequented by artists in the industry. Grab that HL2 SDK and you should be good to go.
Rich Lee
I shoot Pirates.
Re: pc game moding...
sweet! thanks for the info guys.
not getting into moding, i want to understand more about how games work and their engines. i do previsualization for a living and want to try and make what we do as realtime, and as awesome looking as we can. game engines, and how they are optimised are i think the future to previz work on films. would like to integrate some of their technics with ours to make what we do better and faster.
sweet! thanks for the info guys.
not getting into moding, i want to understand more about how games work and their engines. i do previsualization for a living and want to try and make what we do as realtime, and as awesome looking as we can. game engines, and how they are optimised are i think the future to previz work on films. would like to integrate some of their technics with ours to make what we do better and faster.
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Yup, game engines for previz. Heard speilberg used the unreal engine for some previz. Not sure on which film, but it is being done. It sounds like you are moving on the right track with games engines advancing as they are these days. The next release of the unreal engine looks freakin incredible. For those who have not seen it http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/ut2004/screenindex_6098240.html
Not sure if i like it from a gaming perspective as I play games to escape reality and the drive toward realism concerns me, but it looks excellent regardless. BTW, you are an XSI user , right? How bout' some info on the $495 package. I'm looking into buying a package soon and this one looks great for the price. thanks!!!
Yup, game engines for previz. Heard speilberg used the unreal engine for some previz. Not sure on which film, but it is being done. It sounds like you are moving on the right track with games engines advancing as they are these days. The next release of the unreal engine looks freakin incredible. For those who have not seen it http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/ut2004/screenindex_6098240.html
Not sure if i like it from a gaming perspective as I play games to escape reality and the drive toward realism concerns me, but it looks excellent regardless. BTW, you are an XSI user , right? How bout' some info on the $495 package. I'm looking into buying a package soon and this one looks great for the price. thanks!!!
Rich Lee
I shoot Pirates.
Re: pc game moding...
the 495 package seems like a steal to me. im kinda shocked that its so inexpensive for what you get. for the longest time we were spending about 10G's per seat of XSI. the cool stuff thats missing from the foundation package is stuff like Rigid and Spring Dynamics,Syflex Cloth (a little better the the standard one), Hair & Fur, compositing....there is a bunch more, but alot of it is render wrangling stuff, distributed rendering stuff.... the foundation package is quite robust, and definitly worth 500bucks...
would like to know what show steve s. was using game stuff on, we did the previz for his last movie terminal, which we didnt have any of that stuff on. maybe war of the worlds? i dunno who is doing the previz for that...maybe they are using some game stuff for it, i dunno, i do know he is really big into making it as interactive as possible.
the 495 package seems like a steal to me. im kinda shocked that its so inexpensive for what you get. for the longest time we were spending about 10G's per seat of XSI. the cool stuff thats missing from the foundation package is stuff like Rigid and Spring Dynamics,Syflex Cloth (a little better the the standard one), Hair & Fur, compositing....there is a bunch more, but alot of it is render wrangling stuff, distributed rendering stuff.... the foundation package is quite robust, and definitly worth 500bucks...
would like to know what show steve s. was using game stuff on, we did the previz for his last movie terminal, which we didnt have any of that stuff on. maybe war of the worlds? i dunno who is doing the previz for that...maybe they are using some game stuff for it, i dunno, i do know he is really big into making it as interactive as possible.