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Open Citra and right click the game you want to dump, then click "dump romfs". This basically extracts the game data into a folder format so you can get at the files. Now open Kuriimu2, File>Open. Navigate to the "archive" folder of your romfs dump, then open one of the .arc files. In this example, it's Ryunosuke Naruhodo from Dai Gyakuten Saiban.


Click on the MT Frameworks ARC plugin then click continue. You might need to check "Show all plugins" to find it for some games.


It should look like this:



Right click a folder in the hierarchy (In this case, I'd click "chr000") and click "Extract", navigate to a folder of your choice. You'll have the source files of the models, textures and animations.

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This assumes you have 3DS Max installed. Make sure that MT Framework.mzp is somewhere on your computer. Open 3DS Max, go to Scripting->Run Script and open MT Framework.mzp. It should look like this now:

Click on the first folder icon and navigate to the .mod file where Kuriimu extracted to and open it. It'll take a little while to import, so be patient. Once it's imported, it should look something like this:

If you only want the rigged model, you're good to go File->Export->Export and export as FBX. If you want animations, open the spoiler and read how to do so.

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Turn your attention to the window you used to import the model into 3DS Max, and click on the second folder icon. Navigate to the .lmt file matching the model you're ripping and open it, then click "Load". Export that as FBX, click "Regenerate Skeleton" in the script menu, rinse and repeat, changing the index number (just above the "Load" button) each time.

Otherwise, let's move on to applying textures.

• Monster Hunter Stories: These ones have a tendency to have loose junk vertices that trip the model checker with a bad weighting error. To fix that, select all your meshes in Object Mode, go to edit mode, "A" to select everything, then go to Mesh -> Clean Up -> Delete Loose. That fixes the problem. Huge thanks to Scurest to helping me out with that one.
  
• Ace Attorney: These have seemingly duplicate meshes used for cel shading, with one being ever so slightly bigger than the other. Do NOT delete them when making rips! The smaller one is the actual model, the bigger one for the outlines. It helps to label which one is which as Ace Attorney models use a lot of meshes, for example for my Raiten Menimemo rip I would label his hat mesh as "Hat" and the hat outline mesh as "HatLine". For the cel outline textures, you just need to make it into a black, textureless material and turn on backface culling to get the outline effect working.
  

(03-19-2024, 08:52 PM)Lifepowder Wrote: Been trying absolutely everything to try to get this to work for Monster Hunter: Stories (3DS, of course) but still having trouble getting the textures to line up properly on the model. Unfortunately this thread is still the top result on search engines for the topic :( Any leads would be super helpful !! Might have to give up and wait for the PC release.

Thank you for you work Nooga !