Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Last Batch: Unused Models

This is partially what I was trying to accomplish. Being able to manipulate the models in game, I could take the unused 3D models from Star Force and use BN5DS as a virtual emulator to process the files. The models should be correct. Shading is a little different and could be an emulator error. While the model format may have been the same as I anticipated, the motions format isn't. Only the the idle animation can be loaded and I'm very certain there are more. A general-purpose BCA0 animation viewer would be needed to progress further. These models, out of proportion and fairly inaccurate, are ideal test subjects which could have been used to explore the game's barely-developed real-world and cyber-world environments. The foot and buster texture, sharing the same textures as the Mega Man model from the previous post, have no animation textures. It is possible these were used for battle models.

Anyways, here is the last batch: the proper idle animations for the 4 character models found in Star Force.

9 comments:

Alilatias said...

Those are some insane finds. I just wonder what this could have been like, had the development team been granted more time.

Sometimes one has to wonder about exactly how messy the EXE 4-5 development era really was. That was a lot to do in the span of two years...

Anonymous said...

I've been waiting for someone (ahem, you) to get these things cleaned up for ages! Awesome stuff.

Anonymous said...

I'm crazy excited about these finds.

Is there any way to get that animation viewer you mentioned? There are a lot of people in the homebrew and ripping scene who make tools like that.

Anonymous said...

I thought the Console Tool could read those animations...

Mega Rock.exe said...

Console Tool can't read animations at the moment. If and when it does get support, these will be revisited.

Anonymous said...

Excellent.

Anonymous said...

Is there a way for Console Tool to export the models into a usable format?

Mega Rock.exe said...

The version I have can't and I don't know what's going on with the third version.

77margarita77 said...

darnit, i cant view them anymore because of photobucket..

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