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Tech - Model extraction
- Thread starter dulak
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hell yeah (not hell yeah i know, just hell yeah that this is cool)
nice, what is the size/scale there?
Rare Spawn
Well-known member
Did you figure out how to extract the 3D models from EQ?
dulak
Well-known member
I have not sadly
Dulak, I am interested in this as well and I do not have it saved but I have run across this question on a reddit from a few years back where JChan answered someone that she spoke to someone about it in thier studio and they did not have a proper way. She seemed to want to help. Could be smoke...or could be from the model files they use, could be too much reformatting/converting, that it doesn;t come out nice. If you search the DB forums I believe its still there somewhere. Seems best to make your own, but I have seen on some 3D print community sites they have low res polygon EQ items and characters there. pretty basic. I like the items you posted, very cool !
eq forum link redfrog mentioned 3d Print Your Toon
dulak
Well-known member
Read through that entire thread and the other threads that had been posted in one of the replies. Sadly, no definite way of doing it. There was one method that was mentioned but someone had recently tried it and it didn't work.
You'd probably have some luck with some of the tools used for the EQ Emu community. Things like the S3d Extractor or https://github.com/Zaela/EQGZoneImporter or https://github.com/Zaela/S3DModelExtracter -- or even the old tools: https://web.archive.org/web/2016032...chrsschb.com/EQModel_Viewer_ZoneConverter.zip
I'm sure they have some more modern stuff as well -- I know Spire can do model viewing. I don't know if Quail would help: https://github.com/xackery/quail
But I suspect the emu community has a lot more tools available that would get you most of the way there.
ToeJamSamy
Seasoned veteran member
That was my thought exactly: find out how emu does it, or see if emu serverfiles can be converted so long as what you want isn't newer (idk how far past RoF if at all beyond it they've ever gone. When I had a personal emu server RoF was the latest for zones and mobmodels but quests were still WAY older)