GUI buttons is easier for everyone... m8 I would think, I know its what i prefair.

working on the "fusing" of the .OBJ exporter code to the main DBO2X program. So soon, will be able to convert DBO's (PBR/EBE/legacy) to .X and .OBJ formats. Once that's all working smoothly, will write some code to generate a .MTL file for the .OBJ model. But will release before that so anyone interested can have a play around. I then need to go and make updates to the Entity Welder program to use same xporter code. Again, I will test that the .OBJ files still import into Blender / Fragmotion / UU3D. So far so good...phew.

OBJ format export code now "merged" with the main DBO2X program and now you can multi select DBOs for OBJ conversion. Here's a small (very small) example of 3 models imported into Blender post multi-DBO select.

Hoping to upload this to google drive later on as I have family around at the moment and my wee 2 month old to look after/entertain.

more soon....loads still to do on it but I'm pleased with it so far.

Excellent m8, well done, will test it out once you release it and do some texting.

ok, was going to roll this one out last night, but found an issue I need to resolve (typical) ..... will fix as soon as ....

Here is the link to the app (v1.6):

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YaedBucmgQcLne5OtMGqWo5i4IUlhwFn

password = "youshallnotpass" without quotes.

It's not 100% perfect yet so there will be some flaws still and there is still a lot more to do/add.

I will do a video soon as possible.

For PBR/EBE DBO's, at the moment to convert to OBJ format, first convert to .X and then change the .INI setting and convert to .OBJ. For EBE DBO files, make sure ISEBESTRUCTURE=1 in the INI file (root of your drive). This option will remove the sphere attached to the DBO.

Setting the "CONVERTTOOBJ" parameter to 1, will allow to select either .DBO/.X and also you can multi-select using either CTRL-A to select all DBO/X files or single select i.e. CTRL + left mouse.

MTL file still to be created for .OBJ but you can load in a texture e.g. in Fragmotion and create a material from that texture and assign to the mesh or mesh groups.

I am expecting some issues, but please feel free to post/email comments.

Many thanks I will experiment tomorrow


Dave

Thank you.

Thanks m8 will have a play and let you know.

Thank you Bored of the Rings

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no problem at all guys.

I applied a fix, which I totally forgot to do, which forces the face(index) values in if there are none in the DBO file. A good example of this is the Cerberus weapon which I tested out as a saved DBO file and then exported it again as a .OBJ. I've applied a .MTL file and imported back into Fragmotion and the weapon now shows with the material/texture applied. Unfortunatley in Blender the .MTL file doesn't seem to get applied to the object unless I've missed something. Ages since I dabbled with Blender in any great depth for ages. I still am in "baby brain" mode.

Hi Bored of the Rings,

Trying to download using the latest url, but I'm getting a 404 error. Is this still available for sharing and download? Thanks.

@DBUserX: I'll be re-uploading at some point, it needs some more work. I might add the last version to the "Welder and other tools" thread.
https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/219806#msg2602285
It's one of those tools I want to get perfected or as near to perfection as close as possible as it's handling lots of situations PBE/EBE/legacy DBO.

Awesome, thanks! One question, so how will it handle dbo files with multiple UV textures? Does it split it into several meshes/models?

@DBUserX-sorry for delay in replying. I'll look at my program to see how I did it to get multiple UV textures working, I've totally forgotten but it does work ha ...oh dear the grey cells aren't always what they used to be..... The texturing side needs to be reworked really, it's a little tricky from what I recall. Sorry, it's all nappy changing, feeding and playing with my wee baby boy at the moment, so I get a bit "baby brain". Yes my wife also helps ha .... just kidding wifey

ok, so for mutliple UVs/Materials, it's all laid out in the MaterialList section when exporting X file, see DBO to X DirectX output small excerpt below which it specifies 2 separate texturefilenames under 2 separate material sections, so the list would contain 0,0,0,0,0 etc for the 1st material, and then 1,1,1,1,1 etc for the 2nd material. It's all done per mesh group or limb if you like. Also see attached pic showing the Humvee from the FPSC Desert Storm Pack, which my program converted from the original FPSC DBO to X. The whole reason behind my conversion program was so that I could take a binary formatted X file and convert to readable ASCII and edit the texturefilename fields programatically rather than using Fragmotion or UU3D. By the way if any of my converted X files don't load in UU3D, then there is a problem with the text file somewhere usually, but can still load into Fragmotion. So UU3D is the real tester for this program.. Hope this answers the original question:

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1,
1,
1,
1,
1,
1,
1,
1;
Material hummer_D2 {
0.752941;0.752941;0.752941;1.000000;;
40.000000;
0.000000;0.000000;0.000000;;
0.000000;0.000000;0.000000;;

TextureFileName {
"hummer_D2.dds";
}
}
Material hummer_interior_D2 {
0.752941;0.752941;0.752941;1.000000;;
40.000000;
0.000000;0.000000;0.000000;;
0.000000;0.000000;0.000000;;

TextureFileName {
"hummer_interior_D2.dds";
}
}
}

Excellent. Thank you.