3d modder model updates? (Cinema 4D and blender)

The real 3d models are stored in the big archives.
If you extract data\models\npcs.big with tools, then there exist many other *.big and *.tex archives.

There are cast_*.big and cast_*.tex files which have 3d model data.

If you extract that big and tex archive, it contains bone and 3d information and texture files.

bone files are bone*, and 3d data are in the geo* files.
geo files are two kinds. "* indices 0" and * Vertices 0"

clearly "* indices 0" files are array of two byte integers.
"* Vertices 0" files are array of 4 bytes floats.

I've tried to convert
"geo_blouseShape Indices 0"
"geo_blouseShape Vertices 0"
into integer array and float arrays.

I guessed indices represent polygon vertex index and
Vertices represent x,y,z vertex coordinates.

So first converted "geo_blouseShape Vertices 0"
into 3 float array and imported that vertex info into cinema 4d.

I attached the image.

As you can see there appears a shape like a blouse, but there are other points and the valid points are spread 0, 14, 28, 42 etc
There other goups indexed by 9, 23, 37, 51 etc which looks like a blouse in the y,z plane, but spread over x plane meaninglessly.
Also group 5, 19, 33, looks like side view of a blouse in the y,x plane but hard to understand in the z direction etc.

Other point groups are hard to understand.

I think there can be normal vertices and wheather uv coordinates are included is not clear.

The largest integer in the indices is smaller than the possible number of integers reduced from vertices. So there must other coordinates which is not vertices coordinates.

In the cast_rebecca.big,
the largest integer in the "geo_blouseShape Indices 0" is 2194.
index is running from 0 so there must be 2195 vertices.
In the file "geo_blouseShape Vertices 0", there is 30730 floats.
So 30730/2195 gives 14.
14 float data per index.

Another example "geo_headShape Indices 0", the largest integer is 2755, so 2756 vertices.
In the file "geo_headShape Vertices 0", there is 38584 floats.
So 38584/2756 gives 14.
Also 11th coordinates seems to be -1 always, 6th and 7 th always 0. So effectively there is 11 coordinates per vertex.

If the meaning is analyzed you can easily convert float arrays into obj format's v array and indices into obj formats's f array.

Any idea?

i tried too but i suppose the geo_blouseShape Vertices 0 contain the uvmap coordinates...

Here is the snapshot of the point clouds of each 4 coordinates groups of the "geo_headShape Indices 0" file.

From top to bottom, group [0,1,2], [3,4], [7,8,9] and [11,12,13]
(meaning modulo 14)

group [7,8,9] and [11,12,13] looks similar, but head are looking toward z direction.
And points are more dense in the z direction in the goup [11,12,13]. So goup [11,12,13] is more look like face normals.

Anyway you may be able to modify points (for example, face) as long as you do not delete, insert and change vertex orders. Of course normals may be wrong if you change too much.

To analyze indices, i think i must look into more simple object like a box.

P.S. This format apply to npcs.big. I tried to find more simple object in the cine_props.big. it seems use similar but somewhat diffrerent format.

omg a fellow blenderhead, i aint a coder fancy sharing your script dude. im very intrigued to see em in blender

Well obviously there is no mesh under her clothing, why do you think the devs would make useless render material that you never see?

Someone's gonna have to custom fit the body, such as what they are doing with a nude L4D Zoey at the Facepunch forums.