I happened across this tutorial and dabbled a little bit with ripping from Devil May Cry to see what I could do. The instructions were easy to follow, but those models were a massive pain to deal with though (backface culling, coupled with scaling and skewing issues due to the camera angles...) so I'm attempting DMC3: SE instead.
Now I've stumbled into a different problem - any rips I make in this game create an object that is flat. I read somewhere that scaling can help so I've tried scaling that axis in Blender (cus' I'm cheap
) but with no success (my thoughts are that apparently scaling too far in one axis in Blender overflows that scaling in to the next axis, considering it decides to change from depth scaling to height scaling with a large enough factor, but I wouldn't know).
Any opinions on how to figure this out would be great.
EDIT: Just tested this out.. As an addition helper, doors in this series don't animate to open, so it would either load up the new room or teleport you there when you go through a door. I would think the latter is the case in this game, and that backface culling probably isn't in effect here, seeing as moving to a different room on the same floor/mission and screenshotting it produces the same object proven in a side-by-side comparison.
Somehow though, even though the first room is much larger when viewed in the game (think the difference between a stadium and the average house), the second room I scrnshotted produced a file 2.5MB bigger than the first room. And it may be a hunch, but it looks as if all the rooms are loaded in the same object file and all mashed together into a flat, indistinguishable mess, so how that extra 2.5MB came about I don't know.
EDIT AGAIN - I'm an idiot. After some exploration and playing about with camera clipping distance, I've discovered that it's rendered the HUD as a flat object and the level map was hidden behind the draw distance of Blender's camera. Not a flat level at all, but there's horrendous perspective skewing. >.<
Now I've stumbled into a different problem - any rips I make in this game create an object that is flat. I read somewhere that scaling can help so I've tried scaling that axis in Blender (cus' I'm cheap
) but with no success (my thoughts are that apparently scaling too far in one axis in Blender overflows that scaling in to the next axis, considering it decides to change from depth scaling to height scaling with a large enough factor, but I wouldn't know).Any opinions on how to figure this out would be great.
EDIT: Just tested this out.. As an addition helper, doors in this series don't animate to open, so it would either load up the new room or teleport you there when you go through a door. I would think the latter is the case in this game, and that backface culling probably isn't in effect here, seeing as moving to a different room on the same floor/mission and screenshotting it produces the same object proven in a side-by-side comparison.
Somehow though, even though the first room is much larger when viewed in the game (think the difference between a stadium and the average house), the second room I scrnshotted produced a file 2.5MB bigger than the first room. And it may be a hunch, but it looks as if all the rooms are loaded in the same object file and all mashed together into a flat, indistinguishable mess, so how that extra 2.5MB came about I don't know.
EDIT AGAIN - I'm an idiot. After some exploration and playing about with camera clipping distance, I've discovered that it's rendered the HUD as a flat object and the level map was hidden behind the draw distance of Blender's camera. Not a flat level at all, but there's horrendous perspective skewing. >.<