Xenoblade Definitive Edition support

[Andree12]

So the roms of Xenoblade Definitive Edition had been leaked and I had extracted the files off of the game.

mot xb1de.zip
xb1de pc010000.zip

The files appeared to have similarities with the files of Xenoblade 2 and some of which are newly compressed, so they probably never work with your tool.

[keesoudwater34]

texture formats are difrent. the old tool can read the meshes but doenst know what to do with the textures. and the new tool just crashes since its difrent so

[PredatorCZ]

Tested, models are loading fine, morphs seems to be missing, textures are not loading at all.
For now, uncheck Export textures.

[Demonslayerx8]

The textures are BC7_UNORM format, just thought I'd say.

LOD meshes and morph's are indeed missing on my end. However I don't like how I have to make duplications of the arc/chr files for each model piece.

[Andree12]

pc010109.wimdo has fully working face morphs.

[keesoudwater34]

a lot of the times it just straight up crashes but i think thats due to the other texture format. the only time it doesnt its on the old tool. its a mix match of the texture formats at least on the shulk. BC7_UNORM is used on the rest instead of the test face texture on pc010109 aka shulks head. the old tool is able to load that texture fine though

[keesoudwater34]

when exported though to fbx it for some reason goes ballistic

[PredatorCZ]

Just looked into mesh data for pc010101, there is only one mesh, a hair, no morphs, no lods, just hair.
This happens, when you play around with leaked content, god knows how old these files are, they might be prototypes/placeholders. I would rather wait for proper release.

[keesoudwater34]

pc010101 isnt the head though. the head is pc010109. its taking a sort of xenoblade x structure.

pcxxxxx1 to pcxxxxx5 are body parts hair arms legs and stuff. heads are their seperate files wich are most the time always pcxxxxx9 files. also that shape key thing on my end happens on the xeno2 stuff too but its for some reason my 3ds max and i dont know how to fix it since reinstalls wont do it.

[Demonslayerx8]

what Keesoudwater34 said is correct. Heads are it's own model files cause you can change your outfit style in the game, which is why they took this route.

Also found another texture format that's used for Future Connected shulk outfit.. R8G8B8A8_UNORM

If you want the filename for that alt, it is pc01940#

[keesoudwater34]

The textures are BC7_UNORM format, just thought I'd say.

LOD meshes and morph's are indeed missing on my end. However I don't like how I have to make duplications of the arc/chr files for each model piece.

@Demonslayerx8 demonslayerx8 may i ask how you extracted those textures? some of them we are having throuble with. cause the tools that are out there right now just downright crash and the other way we do it is with offzip and rawtex but we seem to miss a bunch of them.

[Demonslayerx8]

The textures are BC7_UNORM format, just thought I'd say.
LOD meshes and morph's are indeed missing on my end. However I don't like how I have to make duplications of the arc/chr files for each model piece.

@Demonslayerx8 demonslayerx8 may i ask how you extracted those textures? some of them we are having throuble with. cause the tools that are out there right now just downright crash and the other way we do it is with offzip and rawtex but we seem to miss a bunch of them.

I used the old script, just uncheck Convert textures to DDS, it'll leave a BNTX file, then open said file in a hex editor, and put in the texture format for each texture, then use a bntx bms script.

[keesoudwater34]

@Demonslayerx8 im still a bit new to hex editing. where would you edit the format in here and to what?

[Demonslayerx8]

@Demonslayerx8 im still a bit new to hex editing. where would you edit the format in here and to what?

for each BRTI magic, after 18 bytes, change the next 2 bytes from 00 00 to 01 20, and then there's some that's 01 0B, but best to do those after trying 01 20 and exporting contents as DDS.

[keesoudwater34]

so basically from this

to this

or does it have to be the first 00 00 that has to be changed instead of a 01 00 to a 01 20

[Demonslayerx8]

Oops, not 18 bytes, 24 bytes lmao