State of the project

[Nitestokeh]

Hello, do you have plans to continue working on this? I'm really interested in FF characters and weapons but unfortunately your tools can neither export the former nor have any UVs for the latter. The only way to get characters now is to rip them using two tools: one for the UVs and the other for T-posed mesh. This is rather tedious and time-consuming, so I was wondering if you are going to finish your work.
Here's what I managed to rip if that's any motivation:

[minexew]

Hi, if you have some format specs or code, I might take a look.

[Nitestokeh]

I'm not exactly a programmer, so nothing I can help with here... Just wanted to know if you'd ever continue working on this.

[minexew]

Ah, I see. How did you manage to get the geometry, UVs, texturing etc for the screenshots above?

[Nitestokeh]

It was done with two tools: Ninja Ripper and 3D Ripper DX. I had to run the former to get the mesh in T-pose, but since it can't rip UVs from earlier Glacier games properly, I had to recapture the same game scene with the latter to get the UVs and then morph the mesh (3D Ripper DX exports raw scene without T-posing) in a proper pose. I doubt that'd actually be of any practical help but that's the only way to do it currently. There are some Hitman tools that have been released a while ago but they are compiled and they don't support FF files for some reason:
hitman2_3.zip

[minexew]

Thanks for the info!
Yeah, if there is no new documentation or code in the wild that would help with understanding these formats, it's unlikely that I will do more work on them in the near term.

Of course, anyone is welcome to pick up the torch. (I could perhaps even help out with coding questions in that case.)