Ripping Models From Steam Games?

[Carpaccio]

Is there any possible way to rip models via an injector like NinjaRipper from Steam Games? I'm aware of the methods of extracting from Source Games and Unreal Engine games, but at the moment I'm trying to rip the Death summon from Magicka: Wizard Wars as well as the Imps (It's a free game by the way), but haven't had any luck. Can someone let me know what I can do?

[oxitran]

Is there any possible way to rip models via an injector like NinjaRipper from Steam Games? I'm aware of the methods of extracting from Source Games and Unreal Engine games, but at the moment I'm trying to rip the Death summon from Magicka: Wizard Wars as well as the Imps (It's a free game by the way), but haven't had any luck. Can someone let me know what I can do?

as far as I'am aware most games are on a engine by engine bases for ripping. And for reverse engineering they tend to go by a developer by developer bases for determining the encryption methods used. Your best bet would go scouring for answers on just that game for now or one similar from the same dev. sorry i cant be of more help.

[Farlavor]

There are games like Torchlight 2 that you can get models without using Screencaps like Ninja Ripper, and with full rigging.
other steam games cannot be so easy... it varies depending on the game itself and/or wether it has or not a "Steam Workshop" section...

Sometimes, certain games like Facerig, even having it's own steam workshop, still you can't get models from it... I gave it a try to get Fluffo with no avail... Lucky me, was just plain searching on google... and as long as Facerig keeps updating it's contents and give more features... I think I may survive momentarily without it's models.
you can't get the character avatars from the program. but yet you can make your own facerig avatars and add them to facerig.

Like this, there are some examples... My suggestion is, that you better DO NOT try to get every file from every steam game... just look for the game you wan't to get the models from Steam... or else... you may try to download the pirated version of the games... those don't require steam... but of course... you know the stuff......

PS: I don't recomend using screencaps, it may depend only on what you are planning to do. if you can get the models fully rigged by just undestanding the file compression or simply using Noesis or QuickBMS, it's far better and easier this way.
otherwise, using NinjaRipper or 3D Ripper DX, you may end with a glitchy unrigged model in a plain OBJ file... of course it's just my opinion... On the other hand... using it to get static meshes like plants, structures or even weapons... it's okay. as long as the models themselves don't get their textures messed out or with deformations.
besides my last experience using NinjaRipper, although being succesfull at first sight, I had some kind of... problems at the end (When I was wielding the vertexes on Sadaharu model after I screencapped it and deleted everything else, some guys here knows exactly what model I'm talking about)

PS2: All Steam games when downloaded tends to install files to your computer, normally on C:/program files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/(Your game folder)
perhaps if you pay attention to the game folder and look at the datafiles, you may find wathever you are looking for, and perhaps if you send some of those files to us, we may try to find out how to decompress them, and get the models.
of course... when I am saying "US"... it doesn't include ME... Becuz even if I offer help, I don't have the knowledge enough to figgure out anything from unknown formats.
but maybe your Magicka has been installed to your PC. just need to look into the files.

[Carpaccio]

If someone wants to try and figure out the filesystem from what little there is to go on with it, I've got the base files right here. They're...honestly pretty confusing. I don't know how they're supposed to be organized at all. Not to mention none of them have proper extensions and none of them bear sensible names. Trying to find just two models out of all this mess would be pretty difficult in my opinion, then again I know nothing about the processes of doing so.

Dropbox Link

Fair warning, it's a big file.