What program should I use to look at .mdl files from a Wii game made in 2009?

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missingno74
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What program should I use to look at .mdl files from a Wii game made in 2009?

Post by missingno74 »

Hello there! Excuse me lingo and / or me being an idiot as this is my first time trying to do stuff with models.
I've gotten the models from a game called "Endless Ocean: Blue World", and I was trying to open them. However, every program that I've tried was not able to open them. Format is a .mdl.
Assasinge
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Re: What program should I use to look at .mdl files from a Wii game made in 2009?

Post by Assasinge »

Decompile with crowbar or something? Is it source engine based of some sort?
zheneq
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Re: What program should I use to look at .mdl files from a Wii game made in 2009?

Post by zheneq »

I believe Source was never ported to Wii.

Show us some samples, mdl is quite a generic extension.
missingno74
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Re: What program should I use to look at .mdl files from a Wii game made in 2009?

Post by missingno74 »

Hi, sorry for the late responses.

https://mega.nz/#F!uz4gHaoY!69pFYys7BEo13ToSkEbHIA -unbuilt model
https://mega.nz/#!6z5lmBwI!dGN6u5aMx1-I ... gNyNn1VY-I - built model

RF2MD3 is attached in front of every one of these, although I don't know what it means or what it could be.
Each .mdl has a .tdl and a .vdl file inside, if it has animations, it has a .mol.
DJ Normality
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Re: What program should I use to look at .mdl files from a Wii game made in 2009?

Post by DJ Normality »

Are you trying to reverse the data or just get the models ? If so use Dolphin emulator to snap the geo with render doc.
coredevel
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Re: What program should I use to look at .mdl files from a Wii game made in 2009?

Post by coredevel »

missingno74 wrote:Hello there! Excuse me lingo and / or me being an idiot as this is my first time trying to do stuff with models.
I've gotten the models from a game called "Endless Ocean: Blue World", and I was trying to open them. However, every program that I've tried was not able to open them. Format is a .mdl.


Game developer is Arika, from Japan. Game developers tend to write their own formats, so you should research the games that Arika has developed and see if anyone else has written tools for them. There is usually some common ground between all games a developer has written.