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Polygon model importer, how soon do you want it?
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Posted on 10-19-09 10:53:34 PM (last edited by VL-Tone at 10-19-09 07:54 PM) Link
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Originally posted by cooliscool

Yeah, OBJ doesn't support per vertex coloring. I could potentially "emulate" it using a color map but that would make the resulting file huge. I could add the RGBA values (8-bits each) to the file as comments which you could read in; and I eventually want to switch to VRML which supports them natively. I can also have it export combiner MUXs as comments for use in your importer. As Xdaniel said, the color combiner commands are globals, all ucodes can use them to the same extent.

The .png textures that BG makes do have their alpha channels (thus why they're PNG).

Edit: Here's a new obj file with vertex RGBAs and precompiled SETCOMBINE commands.

How to interpret them (they're formatted like any other .obj command, space delimited):

 


vc r g b a - vertex colors, as floats. Multiply by 255 to get 8-bit integer values. They share indices with vertices and texture coords.

cmb command - compiled color combiner (0xFC) command for the current group; stays the same for subsequent groups until the next instance. 

BK doesn't use SETPRIMCOLOR, SETENVCOLOR, or SETBLENDCOLOR, combiner generation relies solely on vertex shading, texel0 and texel1.


Welcome to jul cooliscool

Thank you very much for providing this modified .obj file, I'm currently working on making TT64 use it, but I noticed some little problems with the values for the "vc" command. It seems that the second parameter is repeated twice without any spacing...

 
vc 1 11 1

vc 0.345098 0.3450980.345098 1

vc 0.345098 0.3450980.345098 1

vc 1 11 1

vc 0.5490196 0.54901960.5490196 1

vc 0.4705882 0.47058820.4705882 1






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Posted on 10-19-09 10:56:17 PM (last edited by cooliscool at 10-19-09 08:12 PM) Link
Originally posted by VL-Tone
Originally posted by cooliscool

Yeah, OBJ doesn't support per vertex coloring. I could potentially "emulate" it using a color map but that would make the resulting file huge. I could add the RGBA values (8-bits each) to the file as comments which you could read in; and I eventually want to switch to VRML which supports them natively. I can also have it export combiner MUXs as comments for use in your importer. As Xdaniel said, the color combiner commands are globals, all ucodes can use them to the same extent.

The .png textures that BG makes do have their alpha channels (thus why they're PNG).

Edit: Here's a new obj file with vertex RGBAs and precompiled SETCOMBINE commands.

How to interpret them (they're formatted like any other .obj command, space delimited):



vc r g b a - vertex colors, as floats. Multiply by 255 to get 8-bit integer values. They share indices with vertices and texture coords.

cmb command - compiled color combiner (0xFC) command for the current group; stays the same for subsequent groups until the next instance. 

BK doesn't use SETPRIMCOLOR, SETENVCOLOR, or SETBLENDCOLOR, combiner generation relies solely on vertex shading, texel0 and texel1.


Welcome to jul cooliscool

Thank you very much for providing this modified .obj file, I'm currently working on making TT64 use it, but I noticed some little problems with the values for the "vc" command. It seems that the second parameter is repeated twice without any spacing...

vc 1 11 1

vc 0.345098 0.3450980.345098 1

vc 0.345098 0.3450980.345098 1

vc 1 11 1

vc 0.5490196 0.54901960.5490196 1

vc 0.4705882 0.47058820.4705882 1






Thanks!

Yeah, I fixed that. The link in the post has been updated. Can't wait to see how it turns out. This functionality is now part of Bottles' Glasses's exporter, so if you decide to adopt it we can get all of BK's models into Mario 64.

Also, I'm not sure but you may need the G_SET|CLEARGEOMETRYMODE command as well...
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Posted on 10-20-09 12:49:35 AM (last edited by VL-Tone at 10-19-09 09:51 PM) Link
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Ok, here's what works well:


The only thing is that the level seems a little darker than it should be. I got this rainbow effect on Mario again, because I used the same buggy header I was using for transparency, which causes Mario to have vertex coloring instead of normals. I still have no idea how to fix this.

Now here's what doesn't seem to work:


While Gruntilda is improved because of the eyes, her whole face and hat is supposed to be colored green.


While the setcombine commands seems to make a difference in these two cases (before only the top texture would appear), the textures don't fade into each other like they should. Note that the textures now use their alpha channel.

Now I don't know who could help me here, but here's the "header" i'm using for each triangle group:
 
E7 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 

BA 00 14 02 00 10 00 00

B9 00 03 1D C8 11 30 78 

B9 00 02 01 00 00 00 00

F8 00 00 00 00 00 00 FF 

BC 00 00 08 0E 49 F2 B7

B7 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 

FC 12 98 04 3F 15 FF FF

B6 00 00 00 00 02 20 00 

BB 00 00 01 FF FF FF FF

F5 10 10 00 00 01 40 50 

F2 00 00 00 00 00 C0 7C

FD 10 00 00 09 00 58 00 

E6 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

F3 00 00 00 07 3F F1 00 

E8 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

FD 10 00 00 07 00 00 00 

E6 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

F3 00 00 00 07 3F F1 00 

03 86 00 10 07 02 68 00

03 88 00 10 07 02 68 04 

04 D0 00 00 07 02 68 08

BF 00 00 00 00 00 0A 14 

BF 00 00 00 00 1E 28 00

BF 00 00 00 00 32 3C 46 

....


Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong or maybe give me a better header to use?

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Posted on 10-20-09 01:24:19 AM (last edited by mortalkenshi2 at 10-19-09 10:25 PM) Link
After seeing where this thread has gone I had to stop lurking on the forums and make a post.

I'm pretty sure VL-Tone made a thread awhile back about water hexing. (It was named super geeky hex hacking stuff + Geo or something.) So I'm sure its possible to do. A couple things, Good job on this, SM64 hacking has come a long way since I last touched a hex editor. [ -7th Grade- ]

Now Don't mean to shoot a bunch of questions at you guys but this a list of questions I have, Feel free to answer any.

I remember reading about extra level slots in SM64. In Rstewarts collision editor that was in like Super Alpha Stage he had some extra levels listed there as well. Are those levels usable in game, and are we able to extend the number of stars that you can put in the game in total? (like SM64 DS) I think one cool thing would be to take DK64 levels and put them in here. DiD you recreate that level or did you get the model of it? (Probably got the model but worth asking)

Messiaen, your hack had the ability to switch between Mario & Luigi During the game select screen. Is it possible to like hit a cap and have the models switch or something mid game? Or maybe Your certain characters in certain levels and not others.

(that sounds confusing but for example I would be mario in Bob Omb battlefield and then Luigi in whomps fortress.)

Finally, I haven't seen it yet and I cannot music hack but if you ever get around to it, I'd like to see any Ocarina of Time Level put into this with some music from it as well (Windmill Music!)

Edit: I also got that same effect awhile back however Mario was lighter rainbow and you couldn't really see his textures because those were covered in the rainbow as well. (Eyes nose mustache mouth Hair)

Edit 2 : VL, Is that first screenshot where you said this is how its supposed to look from TT64? Or a different source?
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Posted on 10-20-09 01:53:37 AM Link
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Originally posted by mortalkenshi2
I'm pretty sure VL-Tone made a thread awhile back about water hexing. (It was named super geeky hex hacking stuff + Geo or something.)

I'm still hesitant about adding water support in v0.6.0, I'll keep it as one of the last things I'll add, so if I don't have time before the end of the year, I'll release v0.6.0b, and water in 0.6.1 or 0.6.2.
Originally posted by mortalkenshi2
I remember reading about extra level slots in SM64. In Rstewarts collision editor that was in like Super Alpha Stage he had some extra levels listed there as well. Are those levels usable in game, and are we able to extend the number of stars that you can put in the game in total? (like SM64 DS) I think one cool thing would be to take DK64 levels and put them in here. DiD you recreate that level or did you get the model of it? (Probably got the model but worth asking)

The level slots in the level importer have nothing to do with the game's level slots. There are indeed a few unused level IDs in the game, but we can't use them yet because we still don't know where are some the basic level parameters. TT64's importer level slots are associated with existing level IDs (that's why you can only replace existing levels).
Originally posted by mortalkenshi2
Messiaen, your hack had the ability to switch between Mario & Luigi During the game select screen. Is it possible to like hit a cap and have the models switch or something mid game? Or maybe Your certain characters in certain levels and not others.

I'm pretty sure messiaen mentioned that switching from Mario to Luigi in game would cause problems.
Originally posted by mortalkenshi2
VL, Is that first screenshot where you said this is how its supposed to look from TT64? Or a different source?

Are you talking about this screenshot http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/5456/clipboard01jcg.jpg? This is from Bottle's Glasses, a nice tool by cooliscool that enables viewing and exporting BK levels to the .obj format, amongst other things.

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Posted on 10-20-09 02:29:15 AM (last edited by Metal_Man88 at 10-20-09 01:48 AM) Link
Originally posted by VL-Tone
GIGANTIC BLOCK OF IMAGES THAT DON'T NEED TO BE REPEATED SNIPPED -MM88

Now I don't know who could help me here, but here's the "header" i'm using for each triangle group:
E7 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 

BA 00 14 02 00 10 00 00

B9 00 03 1D C8 11 30 78 

B9 00 02 01 00 00 00 00

F8 00 00 00 00 00 00 FF 

BC 00 00 08 0E 49 F2 B7

B7 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 

FC 12 98 04 3F 15 FF FF

B6 00 00 00 00 02 20 00 

BB 00 00 01 FF FF FF FF

F5 10 10 00 00 01 40 50 

F2 00 00 00 00 00 C0 7C

FD 10 00 00 09 00 58 00 

E6 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

F3 00 00 00 07 3F F1 00 

E8 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

FD 10 00 00 07 00 00 00 

E6 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

F3 00 00 00 07 3F F1 00 

03 86 00 10 07 02 68 00

03 88 00 10 07 02 68 04 

04 D0 00 00 07 02 68 08

BF 00 00 00 00 00 0A 14 

BF 00 00 00 00 1E 28 00

BF 00 00 00 00 32 3C 46 

....


Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong or maybe give me a better header to use?


SETGEOMETRYMODE (0xB7) disables or enables lighting. Enabling lighting makes the RGBAs act as normals instead of colors, and vice versa.



CMDHigh = the last 32-bits of the command data

MSET = ((CMDHigh And &HFFFFFF) << 8) >> 8

dim EnableLighting as boolean = (MSET And &H20000) > 0


As far as the alpha blending goes, all of that is set by SETOTHERMODE_L (0xB9). In your screenshots it looks like no blending is occuring - only alpha testing (full alpha or no alpha). You can try removing this command from your header, so it'll default to SRC_ALPHA, ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA, with alpha blending enabled.

In the mean time, I'll work on a version of my exporter that exports the geometrymode commands and setothermode commands. I understand this isn't a permanent fix (though it will get all BK models in to Mario), but it may help you understand better how to accomplish this in the scheme of things.
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VL you running Bottles Glasses under dual booting using an intel mac?

Also, What do you use for screen capturing now, or do you capture under the windows partition?

[I use a PPC mac with leopard but I have an intel Mac so thats why Im wondering]
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Originally posted by mortalkenshi2
VL you running Bottles Glasses under dual booting using an intel mac?

Also, What do you use for screen capturing now, or do you capture under the windows partition?

[I use a PPC mac with leopard but I have an intel Mac so thats why Im wondering]


I don't think he uses it. The screenshot he posted of it was one I took quite a long time ago, from a very old version of BG (there's some rendering errors in it). This is how it should look:

http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/6345/clipboard01lc.jpg

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/8307/clipboard02cm.jpg
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Originally posted by VL-Tone

Now I don't know who could help me here, but here's the "header" i'm using for each triangle group:
E7 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 

BA 00 14 02 00 10 00 00

B9 00 03 1D C8 11 30 78 

B9 00 02 01 00 00 00 00

F8 00 00 00 00 00 00 FF 

BC 00 00 08 0E 49 F2 B7

B7 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 

FC 12 98 04 3F 15 FF FF

B6 00 00 00 00 02 20 00 

BB 00 00 01 FF FF FF FF

F5 10 10 00 00 01 40 50 

F2 00 00 00 00 00 C0 7C

FD 10 00 00 09 00 58 00 

E6 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

F3 00 00 00 07 3F F1 00 

E8 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

FD 10 00 00 07 00 00 00 

E6 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

F3 00 00 00 07 3F F1 00 

03 86 00 10 07 02 68 00

03 88 00 10 07 02 68 04 

04 D0 00 00 07 02 68 08

BF 00 00 00 00 00 0A 14 

BF 00 00 00 00 1E 28 00

BF 00 00 00 00 32 3C 46 

....


Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong or maybe give me a better header to use? 




    'GEO MODES

    Public G_CULL_FRONT As Byte = &H2000

    Public G_CULL_BACK As Byte = &H4000

    Public G_CULL_BOTH As Byte = &H6000

    Public G_FOG As Byte = &H10000

    Public G_LIGHTING As Byte = &H20000

    Public G_TEXTURE_GEN As Byte = &H40000

    Public G_TEXTURE_GEN_LINEAR As Byte = &H80000

    Public G_LOD As Byte = &H100000

    Public G_SHADING_SMOOTH As Byte = &H200000

    Public G_CLIPPING As Byte = &H800000


It looks like you're setting the geometry mode, then clearing it (0xB7 and 0xB6 respectively). Not sure of the point in that, you should probably clear then set. You shouldn't need the second SETOTHERMODE_L call (MDSFT = 0x02 (ZSRCSEL), not sure how it works), either. MDSFT = 0x03 (RENDERMODE) sets the current render mode. Try this:


E7 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 

BA 00 14 02 00 10 00 00

B9 00 03 1C C8 11 20 78 

F8 00 00 00 00 00 00 FF 

BC 00 00 08 0E 49 F2 B7

B6 00 00 00 00 1F 32 04

B7 00 00 00 00 08 22 04

FC 12 98 04 3F 15 FF FF

BB 00 00 01 FF FF FF FF

F5 10 10 00 00 01 40 50 

F2 00 00 00 00 00 C0 7C

FD 10 00 00 09 00 58 00 

E6 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

F3 00 00 00 07 3F F1 00 

E8 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

FD 10 00 00 07 00 00 00 

E6 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

F3 00 00 00 07 3F F1 00 

03 86 00 10 07 02 68 00

03 88 00 10 07 02 68 04 

04 D0 00 00 07 02 68 08

BF 00 00 00 00 00 0A 14 

BF 00 00 00 00 1E 28 00

BF 00 00 00 00 32 3C 46 

....


That will disable lighting (so vertex colors are sent as colors), and enable back face culling. The new SETOTHERMODE_L command will force blending (FORCE_BL = 0x00004000) and disable alpha testing (CVG_X_ALPHA = 0x00001000). These are not fixes, you'll need to compute them dynamically for any sort of universality, as you surely well know. An interesting sidenote, both BK and Mario use F3DEX, and from what I can tell pretty much identically.

Edit: What is the purpose of drawing 3 triangles (the last 0xBF commands), for every group? Also, do you insert an ENDDL (0xB8 00 00 00 00 00 00 00) at the end of each list? I find it strange that paramaters set when drawing the level would carry over to Mario.
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Mario actually uses Fast3D, AFAIR the only other game which uses the same early microcode variant is PilotWings. RDP commands are probably the same as F3DEX, however one of the limitations is that in F3D the vertex cache can only hold 16 vertices at once.

VL-Tone, nice progress with TT64! Do you still have plans to integrate the Text Wrangler into the interface? I ask because one thing I want to try soon is to move the text/level name/acts table to extended memory so it can be expanded freely.
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Originally posted by messiaen
Mario actually uses Fast3D, AFAIR the only other game which uses the same early microcode variant is PilotWings. RDP commands are probably the same as F3DEX, however one of the limitations is that in F3D the vertex cache can only hold 16 vertices at once.


Ouch. F3DEX can cache 64 vertices. :o
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At least Wave Race 64's non-Rumble versions (that one's F3DEX 1.23) and that early Shogi game use Fast3D as well.

Btw, a thought I've just had, at least in regards to porting levels from other N64 games to Mario 64: What about using the source game's original Display Lists as far as possible, converting the commands and syntax to Fast3D? The one big problem I'm seeing here is the differences in vertex cache size, as messiaen mentioned, with VTX and TRIx commands having to be recalculated somehow.

Collision data might also be a problem (a smaller one), but otherwise this could end up being way more accurate than exporting from an N64 game, via a Wavefront object, and then reimporting it in a different game.


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VL - Tone in a future version of Toads Tool 64 would it possible to implement a music importer?
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Chances are MML2M64 will remain a separate program, just like it is for SMW hacking. And it works well enough on its own, so merging them would only cause problems.
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Originally posted by VideoGuy
Chances are MML2M64 will remain a separate program, just like it is for SMW hacking. And it works well enough on its own, so merging them would only cause problems.

The thing is though, the program doesn't work on my computer. I know how Toads Tool 64 is supposed to have a user friendly interface so I just thought that it might work in Toads Tool.
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As harsh as it may sound, Toads Tool is made to edit SM64's graphics and maybe its text. Not its music--not yet, at least.

The major focus right now is on polygons and custom level insertion--even if they wanted to add sound, they would have to drop a lot of other things to do that.

Not to mention VL-Tone doesn't have the greatest amount of time in the world to do everything in TT.

So if you could stop bugging them about an irrelevant feature already covered by another program that you can ask about in its own topic instead of here before I have to start deleting your posts, that'd be nice.

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Originally posted by Metal_Man88
As harsh as it may sound, Toads Tool is made to edit SM64's graphics and maybe its text. Not its music--not yet, at least.

The major focus right now is on polygons and custom level insertion--even if they wanted to add sound, they would have to drop a lot of other things to do that.

Not to mention VL-Tone doesn't have the greatest amount of time in the world to do everything in TT.

So if you could stop bugging them about an irrelevant feature already covered by another program that you can ask about in its own topic instead of here before I have to start deleting your posts, that'd be nice.

:p

I see what your saying. It's not harsh and I see what you mean. I wont ask about it again.
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Posted on 10-25-09 07:57:58 PM (last edited by VL-Tone at 10-25-09 08:02 PM) Link
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Sorry guys for the time it took to reply, but like you may know, I work a lot during the week so I mainly post during the weekend (my days off are sunday and monday).
Originally posted by cooliscool


It looks like you're setting the geometry mode, then clearing it (0xB7 and 0xB6 respectively). Not sure of the point in that, you should probably clear then set. You shouldn't need the second SETOTHERMODE_L call (MDSFT = 0x02 (ZSRCSEL), not sure how it works), either. MDSFT = 0x03 (RENDERMODE) sets the current render mode. Try this:

...

That will disable lighting (so vertex colors are sent as colors), and enable back face culling. The new SETOTHERMODE_L command will force blending (FORCE_BL = 0x00004000) and disable alpha testing (CVG_X_ALPHA = 0x00001000). These are not fixes, you'll need to compute them dynamically for any sort of universality, as you surely well know. An interesting sidenote, both BK and Mario use F3DEX, and from what I can tell pretty much identically.

Edit: What is the purpose of drawing 3 triangles (the last 0xBF commands), for every group? Also, do you insert an ENDDL (0xB8 00 00 00 00 00 00 00) at the end of each list? I find it strange that paramaters set when drawing the level would carry over to Mario.


When I started reverse-engineering SM64, I didn't know that the display lists commands were already documented (I didn't know that emulators were using them for emulation), so I did a lot of this reverse-engineering by hand, trial-and-error and observation of the data structure. I did eventually got some hints from some more knowledgeable people to help me fix some issues, but since it worked in a "good enough" way, I never studied Fast3D commands thoroughly.

If there are some things that are illogical in my header, you can blame Nintendo as it was ripped from some object in the game (It's possible though that I made a mistake while ripping or that I did some modifications without knowing what I was doing). I never completely understood all steps necessary to "initialize" a display list sequence. Despite having built TT64, you three guys (cooliscool, xdaniel and messiaen) seem to know a lot more than me about RDP commands.

As for having only 3 triangles at the end, it's only because I didn't paste the whole thing (hence the "..." at the end) there are more triangles than that in the real thing.

I tried your header and while it did fix the "level too dark" problem, it broke Gruntilda's eyes texture transparency effect so it ends up looking like in the video.

Edit:

Now I get it... obviously as you explained, the SETOTHERMODE_L (0xB9) command you provided disables alpha testing so it was normal that Gruntilda's eyes didn't use the alpha channel as expected.

The thing is, the blending still doesn't occur, even worse the top texture completely takes over.

Here's with my header (fixed the rainbow Mario and the darkness problem):

Here's with yours.


In my header, the transition between the two textures is sudden, but at least some transition is happening.

Another thing I noticed using my header, when you pause the game, you can see where all the areas where blending is supposed to be happening, some gradual redrawing of one texture over the other, until the cut-off point (it happens in 1/3 of a second).

As for Guntilda's face not being colored green, it seems that it's an emulator problem with SixtyForce (Mac emulator) where it doesn't seem to apply vertex coloring everywhere for some reason. Mupen64 for Mac (which is an old port) has the same problem as both use the same gIN64 plug-in.

In PJ64, it does work correctly as you can see here.



Note that in PJ64 the blending doesn't occur either (though if I activate the "Force alpha blending" option, I do get the expected blending effect on the ground, but the rest of the level ends up being all translucent).

One last thing, I fixed the rainbow Mario problem by inserting the following commands before the 0xB8 command:

 
BB 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF 

E7 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 

BA 00 14 02 00 00 00 00 

B9 00 03 1D 00 44 30 78 

B6 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 

FC FF FF FF FF FE 79 3C 

B7 00 00 00 00 02 20 00


These are ripped from an existing model in SM64 (Red Mesh Wall).
Originally posted by messiaen

VL-Tone, nice progress with TT64! Do you still have plans to integrate the Text Wrangler into the interface? I ask because one thing I want to try soon is to move the text/level name/acts table to extended memory so it can be expanded freely.


The Text Wrangler code and interface has already been moved into TT64, but the actual integration with the rest of the interface will probably be done in version 0.6.5 or something.

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You missed them figuring out more about the N64's modeling format by attempting to import Banjo Kazooie levels.

Needless to say, it can do many things, importing Banjo Kazooie levels just being one way to play around with SM64's levels.

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VL-Tone, here's a new obj (this time it's Mumbo's Mountain, which uses similar blending techniques) with all necessary RDP commands exported (SET|CLEARGEOMETRYMODE, SETCOMBINE, SETOTHERMODE_H|L). This should fix everything up nicely, while giving you a good view of what to do in the future. Just inject them into your display list as they appear.

If you'd like me to add the unpacked bits (and their functions) too, just let me know.

SETGEOMETRYMODE = gset

CLEARGEOMETRYMODE = gclear

SETOTHERMODE_H = omh

SETOTHERMODE_L = oml


Mumbo's Mountain .obj

And here's a build of Bottles' Glasses which exports all of this data in its .obj files:

Bottles' Glasses TT64 mod
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