Final Fantasy IX model viewer/exporter?

[MonsieurSirhan]

Hello there,

I'm interested in ripping the ingame models (in particular, most monsters, I really don't give a shit about the human characters ) for my own personal (non-commercial!) purposes (in short, a random warcraft 3 project), but I really don't know how I would get around doing that. The only tools I see around are for .tim files or something, which seems to be only the images and textures.

I lack any sort of playstation "rom hacking" knowledge (as a matter of fact, my overall romhacking skillz just consist of random trivial hex editing with docs at hand), and I really don't have the patience to learn it just for something I consider trivial in the "greater scheme of things", unless there is a simpler way.

I am not requesting for a tool to be done if something like this doesn't already exists, by the way.

Thanks in advance.
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[Ugly Joe]

Total shot in the dark here, but have you tried http://www.romhacking.net/?Category=&Console=0&Game=0&Author=0&Recm=&Level=&utilsearch=++Go++&title=&dsearch=tmd&page=utils&action=utillistPsxmultiripper</a>? It supposedly rips TIMs and TMDs (TMDs being a 3d modeling format).

Also, I recall reading somewhere that FFXIII and FFIX have annoying encryption or formats or something. Basically, they're a major pain to work with. I don't have any references to back that up, so I might be completely wrong.
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[MonsieurSirhan]

> Total shot in the dark here, but have you tried
> Psxmultiripper? It supposedly rips TIMs and TMDs (TMDs
> being a 3d modeling format).

I just tried it. God knows how many tim files and 0 tmd files found. :'(

> Also, I recall reading somewhere that FFXIII and FFIX have
> annoying encryption or formats or something. Basically,
> they're a major pain to work with. I don't have any
> references to back that up, so I might be completely wrong.

Hopefully you are wrong -.-
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[AkaneJones]

I don't think there's any fuctional hack tools that work yet for FF9. I read Quimm forms and have yet to here any mod/ crack moddel view programes yet. Or atleased if there were I don't remember. All the interesting work is being done with FF7 & FF8 partial helped by the PC versions.
I think Ugly Joe maybe right about the encoding junk, but if there is anything Quimm would be the place to look first.
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[KingMike]

> > Also, I recall reading somewhere that FFXIII and FFIX have
> > annoying encryption or formats or something.

How do you know that?
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[MonsieurSirhan]

> I don't think there's any fuctional hack tools that work yet
> for FF9. I read Quimm forms and have yet to here any mod/
> crack moddel view programes yet. Or atleased if there were I
> don't remember. All the interesting work is being done with
> FF7 & FF8 partial helped by the PC versions.

> I think Ugly Joe maybe right about the encoding junk, but if
> there is anything Quimm would be the place to look first.

That's very unfortunate to hear Oh well.

Do you have any links to those quimm forums? I would like to keep track or something concerning progress.
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[Ugly Joe]

> > > Also, I recall reading somewhere that FFXIII and FFIX
> have
> > > annoying encryption or formats or something.
>
> How do you know that?

Ach! Mein typo! I'm probably right regardless <img src=smilies/magbiggrin.gif>
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[AkaneJones]

Would you belive it's forums.qhimm.com, either way their most interesting projects are the NPCreconstrution one the graphicly overhauls FF7 none battle poly characters for the PC version and Q-gears an exe engine relacement that is to beable to play FF7(PS&PC),FF8(PS&PC),FF9, & Xenogears on your computer PC/Mac/Linux. Oh theres also programs for extracting and changing pretty much everything in FF7 PC.
So I know FF9s data will get looked at eventualy.
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