v1.042

FF16-Model-Importer

A tool to export and import FF16 .mdl file binaries as .gltf or .dae

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Updates

v1.5

• Added latest fixes by Nenkai.

V1.043

• Fixed material and joint names being read wrong due to alignment
• Set a names for meshes.

V1.04

• Fixed exporting mdl with data type 132 (bone indices as ushort)
• Fixed index out of range error that occured on v1.02 due to bone indices
• Bones will fully merge between multiple .skl files, so head and face skeletons will export correctly.

Requirements

• net8.0

Supports

• MDL exporting and replacing
• MTL exporting and replacing

Usage

In a command line window

Commands:

• MdlConverter.exe body.mdl c1002.pac (Extracts contents to a folder called "body" with all LOD models as .gltf)
• MdlConverter.exe material.mtl (mtl conversion)
• MdlConverter.exe material.json (conversion back to mtl)
• MdlConverter.exe body (Imports mdl contents back from "body" folder.)

Ensure you provide the .pac from a character pack folder for skeleton data

Credits:

• Nenkai for pac handling needed to get .skl data and some .tex info.
• Joschuka/Dimy/Someone else for various research and help for MDL file binary.