Combined file extracting and ripping tool for GCN and Wii games

[Lexou Duck]

well as much as an automated yaz0dec+rarcdump could be useful - it saves only a few minutes from the ripping process, since the workload before simply involved some more drag & drops, but that's not the most time-consuming action i feel (although the automatic deleting of temp extraction files is nice, i'll give you that)

the most time, in my experience, is spent getting the rendering to work correctly, and to render the same in all exported versions of the 3d model, as well as making icon(s) for the model

i remember that when i was ripping wind waker models, i stuck to map models because bmd couldn't export to a bone-rigging supported format (there was only obj and 3ds i believe), even though it could show bones and view the animations of most types just fine

if you wanna really pimp this program up, -well you would probably have to learn an unholy amount of 3d programming/encoding-, but
- make it so it can rip animations and rigs along with the .obj format (writing a .dae export for bmdview basically - but since you say your goal is to automate things, i'm assuming you plan to also make batch exporting for bmdview, right ?)
- make it so the user can easily view the model, then choose the filenames of textures and all the secondary files with a batch-naming process (unless thats already the case, haven't really looked into your script just yet)
- perhaps even automate making a tMR icon ? the rendering in bmdview probably makes for better rendering than whatever 3d program the ripper uses

i hope i didn't sound too critical, but it seems like you're not done with this, so i'm just trying to say what i believe your target audience is looking for in this sort of program for the future, is all