Mass Effect Andromeda

[warrantyvoider]

read the the previous pages, thats exactly what is the current problem, face textures. I dont think this ever worked before, also there are new versions out all the time. either help debug or wait, cant offer anything else at the moment

EDIT: без проблем
EDIT2: from your log: the plugin dlls need to be unlocked! goto their folder, right click, open properties, press "unblock". repeat for all dlls. also your version is outdated, please get a fresh copy from github

[warrantyvoider]

a new version is now on github,
I had a bug with imports where an official patch already existed, please retry your mods that crashed before with this again and let me know how it goes

greetz WV

[Primed58]

I repaired the game with new patch 1.06, installed your new version of the modding module, installed the dll's but it still hangs up on loading shaders after selecting custom character. You are a marvelous modder whom I have followed all through Mass Effect and your work is amazing. I hope you can fix soon, but understand you are a busy person. Oh, and I did unblock.

[elelunicy]

So I'm trying to replace a piece of texture that has been patched with its unpatched version. Is it possible at all? MEAExplorer doesn't seem to be able to give a preview or let you import if it's been patched.

[warrantyvoider]

@bothOfYou: you seem to be pretty happy with your bugs, because you offer no information to recreate the problem. How am I supposed to fix anything without knowing what you did? (check the russian guy a page back, he gave a log, a description, a screenshot, and its not even his language) you could tell toc/bundle/(ebx/res/chunk) path, your input data, where you go ingame to see if it worked or crashes and has anyone read the previous pages, that are ALL about face textures and them not working? have you use the "patchall" option? because stuff like this gets uses over and over and needs to be fixed at each position.
@elelunicy you can set the preview in main tool to unpatched, im not sure if the plugin will accept it, but it should now also show unpatched versions

[JackBauer]

I repaired the game with new patch 1.06, installed your new version of the modding module, installed the dll's but it still hangs up on loading shaders after selecting custom character. You are a marvelous modder whom I have followed all through Mass Effect and your work is amazing. I hope you can fix soon, but understand you are a busy person. Oh, and I did unblock.

In the new patch they edited the default skin textures and the location they're called from, so if you're using any mods which use the default character's skin texture it will hang on the loading screen as it's looking for a path that isn't there anymore. http://bsn.boards.net/thread/9736/borrow-skin-brow-younger-ryder has the steps to fix it if that's what you're using, there's some tutorials on pages 2 and 3. That's how I bodged mine up anyway.

If you're using the pale skin mod, the patch messed with game/ui/charactercreate/blueprints/facialtraitsscreen.ebx in win32\game\levels\charactercreate\charactercreate.toc. The patched version doesn't have any data to export? Keep in mind I'm not entirely sure what I'm doing, I just tinker with things until they start to work again and call it a win.

[Huili]

read the the previous pages, thats exactly what is the current problem, face textures. I dont think this ever worked before, also there are new versions out all the time. either help debug or wait, cant offer anything else at the moment

EDIT: без проблем
EDIT2: from your log: the plugin dlls need to be unlocked! goto their folder, right click, open properties, press "unblock". repeat for all dlls. also your version is outdated, please get a fresh copy from github

Thanks for the quick response. Yes, I set everything up, now everything is loaded normally. I thought about the texture problem, can this be a problem of export and import? Ie when importing/exporting information about mipmap disappears? Just a similar problem (pixels instead of images) I saw in Skyrim, when I forgot to generate a mipmap for the first time.
I hope I translated it normally.

[warrantyvoider]

Thanks for the quick response. Yes, I set everything up, now everything is loaded normally. I thought about the texture problem, can this be a problem of export and import? Ie when importing/exporting information about mipmap disappears? Just a similar problem (pixels instead of images) I saw in Skyrim, when I forgot to generate a mipmap for the first time.
I hope I translated it normally.

that can not be the issue, as I never touch the pixeldata for export or import. so if you reimport the same dds, you get a byte exact copy. its about this rangeStart and rangeEnd, its for "where in the COMPRESSED data does this chunk start and end" and logicalSize and logicalOffset are the offset and size, once its loaded to memory (UNCOMPRESSED). I mean the only byte difference is that when the import gets compressed again (with my tool) the resulting size is different, because I dont know their exact compression settings they used, but it also shouldnt matter. once it imports the pixeldata (of original texture) to a cas file and makes the cat file point to it , it then scans through all or one (depending on setting) sb files, to fix their fields to the new compressed size. im also pretty sure, if I would just reimport the original COMPRESSED data, it would keep size, no sb has to patched and then it should work, because those fields mention above match it, even if its in another cas. just its pretty useless^^ so again, the only difference when importing the original is the change in compressed size, so there has to be some issue with that

greetz

PS: im currently away from my pc, can someone check the corresponding ebx to such a texture? do they have size information maybe too?

[warrantyvoider]

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<EbxFile Guid="34BA1654-64C9-11E6-8305D6DEAE8BA0BC">
  <TextureAsset Guid="74D1B709-DD06-82C7-5FA06C63E6B8A5FD">
    <TextureAsset>
      <TextureBaseAsset>
        <Asset>
          <DataContainer>
          </DataContainer>
          <Name>
            Game/Characters/Human/HMM/0_Heads/HMM_Head_Vik/PCA/Textures/diffuse_mean
          </Name>
        </Asset>
      </TextureBaseAsset>
      <GenerateMipmapsFilter>
        GenerateMipmapsFilter_Box
      </GenerateMipmapsFilter>
    </TextureAsset>
  </TextureAsset>

found the ebx, but also that it seems to miss stuff, I mean, I wrote in big red letters that this was experimental code, so this could be work for another day. anyway I dont see any value in the hex the could represent sizes or so. dunno, so ebx isnt the problem for "glitchy mc pixelface" either...

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greetz WV

[GOTBLZ]

Hey WV,

Would it be possible for you to make a option to import the dds over the original data, as long as of course the dds is the exact size of the original, byte for byte. Or maybe see yourself if overwriting the original has the same effect? I don't mind only being able to edit the dds as the original's size, its better than not being able to edit it at all.

(So not creating a file in the cas_99.cas. but in the original cas it came out of)

[warrantyvoider]

Hey WV,

Would it be possible for you to make a option to import the dds over the original data, as long as of course the dds is the exact size of the original, byte for byte. Or maybe see yourself if overwriting the original has the same effect? I don't mind only being able to edit the dds as the original's size, its better than not being able to edit it at all.

(So not creating a file in the cas_99.cas. but in the original cas it came out of)

so if you reimport the same dds, you get a byte exact copy. its about this rangeStart and rangeEnd, its for "where in the COMPRESSED data does this chunk start and end" and logicalSize and logicalOffset are the offset and size, once its loaded to memory (UNCOMPRESSED). I mean the only byte difference is that when the import gets compressed again (with my tool) the resulting size is different, because I dont know their exact compression settings they used

greetz WV

[GOTBLZ]

so if you reimport the same dds, you get a byte exact copy. its about this rangeStart and rangeEnd, its for "where in the COMPRESSED data does this chunk start and end" and logicalSize and logicalOffset are the offset and size, once its loaded to memory (UNCOMPRESSED). I mean the only byte difference is that when the import gets compressed again (with my tool) the resulting size is different, because I dont know their exact compression settings they used

greetz WV[/quote]

Ok on that note I am off to get some sleep, cause I remember you saying that, but for some reason, I seemed to forget it... why didn't I remember even asking you that...

[warrantyvoider]

use the mesh plugin to export the mesh data and a single LOD as bin, then use this tool to export all sections to .obj format. thx to spinal for the missing info

experimental

greetz WV

[Snowpiercer]

use the mesh plugin to export the mesh data and a single LOD as bin, then use this tool to export all sections to .obj format. thx to spinal for the missing info

experimental

greetz WV

Exciting stuff, thanks WarrantyVoider!

[warrantyvoider]

np^^ I still dunno why all meshes have holes like a swiss cheese, but maybe thats some anti-modding trick again, to split meshes into multiple instances, rly dunno

greetz

[apollon08170]

Wow, Nice Job =D

[axellslade]

np^^ I still dunno why all meshes have holes like a swiss cheese, but maybe thats some anti-modding trick again, to split meshes into multiple instances, rly dunno

greetz

lol
But still better than having no cheese at all! The progress you guys are making in such a short time is amazing!

[warrantyvoider]

damn, thats ALOT to code in dx10+ for displaying a simple rotating triangle, that took me way longer than expected



I think you can guess what this code is preparation for^^

greetz WV

[warrantyvoider]

aaand here comes the merged result of my meshplugin, the fbmeshinfo tool and the dx10 hello world code....


also added a button so you can export a lod to obj files


now on github

greetz WV

[spinal]

Hi all,


Regarding the holes in the meshes, it's easy to fix:

In class MeshLodSection and method LoadVertexData, when looping over indCount, you need to read 3 float from the stream instead of 1 because indCount is not index count but triangles count.

so if you replace this:

for (int i = 0; i < indCount; i++)
indicies.Add(Helpers.ReadUShort(s));

by this:

for (int i = 0; i < indCount; i++)
{
// FIX1 : indCount is a triangle count, not index count
indicies.Add(Helpers.ReadUShort(s));
indicies.Add(Helpers.ReadUShort(s));
indicies.Add(Helpers.ReadUShort(s));
}

the holes should be gone.