Each child in the hierarchy should inherit the transformation values from their parents as well I think, which makes sense. Every element of the hierarchy has an assoicated set of 24 floats from Block 24, which I think are broken into 8 sets of 3, and are used for translating, scaling, and rotating the different parts of the model. I also think I've figured out a hierarchy for the various planes, in which there's also entries labled as locators, joints, and groups. I've arranged the blocks in the file into a form of a hierarchy. I've spent the last few days battling with assembling the models correctly. And animation, but I don't know anything about model animation, so maybe not. If you find a model that crashes the app, please tell meĬurrently I'm trying to figure out different poses and how to hide the appropriate planes. Includes a data viewer to examine the model file contents, minus block 27 (see specs). Also be warned there might be memory leaks or other things since the code is messy, but I havn't seen it do terrible things to my computer yet. Also make sure the TPL file is present (same filename but followed with a dash), otherwise you'll only get colored models. Make sure the models you try to open are in the same directory. I've allready fixed many a glaring error in that regard. It should display most models, but since I've tested only a portion, some might crash it. The model files are stored in the 'a' directory of the GCM. I've also got some pictures to document my testing and progress:įigure I'll post my viewer since it's allready uploaded, for anyone who has PMTTYD files to play around wtih.

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If this has allready been done or it's a common format I just don't know about, please tell me and point out the documentation I missedĬurrently I've pieced together the following specs for the file format at: I've spent a fair ammount of time breaking down the structure of the model files (I assume proprietary) for Paper Mario 2: The Thousand Year Door, and I thought I'd share my progress. This is somewhat of a first for me in a lot of regards - hacking game formats, reverse engineering file formats, and using 3D programming outside of a tutorial.

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