Final Fantasy VIII models

[SierraLatkje]

This is sort of an either-or kind of request. I'm hoping that someone will do one of two things.

One of the things is that I'd love it if someone with Final Fantasy VIII's PC version (and the OpenGL plug-in that should presumably allow the use of an OpenGL-based print-screen style ripper) would rip the character models. I most want the young Kiros in his civilian clothes, then Selphie, Irvine, Zell and the pig-tailed girl, but...let's face it, I'd love to have as many as I could get. Which is why the other thing is the preferred request to have filled...

And that other request is that if anyone knows how to crack the ISO for FFVIII (PSX version, naturally), that they please share that information with me so that I could rip the models myself. I've tried Daemon Tools Lite and IsoBuster, but with no success. Since Noesis has built-in support for FFVIII files, I'm presuming someone at some point made a file extractor for the game, but when I've run searches looking for one, I've always come up with precisely zilch.

So, if anyone can help me out here, I'd really appreciate it.

[Ton]

A shame Ultimecia isn't here much anymore.

[SierraLatkje]

Just thought I'd put a little addition here to say that I no longer need this request filled--someone on another forum posted a .zip that included all the .dat files from FFVIII, so now I can rip them myself. See?



Once I have a little more time, I'll submit the models to the resource, if anyone's interested.

[Ton]

Awesome! I'd love to see them submitted!

[Garamonde]

Yes please.

[SierraLatkje]

Okay, once I've finished a few of my current projects, I'll start making some massive submissions. 'Cause in looking through them, I remembered how awesome some of the monster designs are, so I'll probably rip all of those in addition to the characters.

[valforwing]

so have you had any luck? I'm getting really good a rigging quadripeds if u want me to help out.

[SierraLatkje]

I'm still trying to get my Valentine's Day project finished on time--it's very complex, and why I needed these models--and working on the Dissidia statues and stuff, so I haven't actually ripped any of the other models yet.

I did successfully rig up Kiros, Selphie and Irvine, though. They look a little funny 'cause they're not rigged from a T-pose, but better than nothing. If there are any of the quadripedal monsters you're looking forward to having in MMD, let me know, and I'll get to those before the others.

Or, if you want a challenge, you could try rigging up Odin and Sleipnir. All the GFs you fight against are in these files, so I have access to them, too. Sadly, though, the others aren't, so no Shiva, Siren or Gilgamesh. (Although at least there's Dissidia Duodecim for Gilgamesh, and Shiva looks cooler in FFX anyway...)

[valforwing]

hrm....
unfortunatly I don't know how to make bones, so adding the bones for the extra legs is out of thr question...and i don't have any method for adding extra bones for cereberu's parts....wait...angelo should be in rinoa's folder since he's part of her battle animations. I could rig him.

any quadriped or avian animal such as a dragon without forelegs. just give me a list of what you have and i'll see if i can rig it.

[SierraLatkje]

I don't think Angelo is in the files I have; I didn't see him when I looked through the files initially. I think in terms of file storage, he would be with the GFs, rather than the battle characters. I haven't looked at every file yet, so I can't be sure, but...I think I'm right that he's not there.

I'm not really planning on importing most of the monsters/bosses into MMD, so I'm not really worried about rigging right now. I was just planning on submitting the monsters to the Models Resource to showcase the cool designs for everyone. The only enemies I'm definitely going to be rigging are the human opponents--Fujin, Raijin, Adel and Ultimecia--so I think it's really just a question of if there are any monsters you'd like to have for MMD.

[valforwing]

well any monster really
if it's in .obj form I can convert it to mmd and if not someone else might want to.