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'Remdul' wrote: Hi,

I wrote a tool over the last few months to view exporter Battlefield models, and we've used here internally at FHmod. It doesn't do anything fancy, but it is good for debugging, checking texture filepaths, shaders names of statics, check poly count etc. Just something to make our worthless slave-lives a little easier.

Screenshot:


Not everything is supported or displayed properly. Skinnedmesh does not work (yet), weapon/vehicle collisionmesh is currently not implemented. Works on most BF42, BF2, BF2142, and BF Heroes files. You can view .sm, .staticmesh, .bundledmesh, and .samples files.

There's a world space > tangent space normal map converter, and also ambient occlusion map renderer (load OBJ for this), but these are highly experimental and undocumented.

You can bind file extensions to BfMeshView so you only have to double click files to view them. Just right click on the file > open with > browse to bfmeshview.exe, select checkbox > ok.

For texture loading to work, simply add your mod path to the texture paths list on the options dialog.

You may need some extra files to run this app, see bottom of the page for download.

Use at your own risk. There is no written documentation. Unfortunately I have very little time to work on this tool. Post suggestions/bugreports in this thread please. I might check back every once in a while if I find the time, but no promises.

Cheers,
Remdul
(Reverse Engineer @ Forgotten Hope 2 mod)

[R-DEV]Rudd wrote:anyone got a alternative link for this? Its really good for mappers who want to check to see if the statics they use have got obvious problems like LODs etc

'Remdul' wrote: Ok, as promised, here it is:

BfMeshView

BfMeshView 2.0.0!
Although the version number has hit 2.0, as always it remains an experimental program. Many new features, the highlights:
* BF2 animation playback!
* added texture mass-rename tool (proven to be very popular among FH devs)
* added browse buttons to material editor
* improved display of UV channel info (should help to clear up confusion when troubleshooting bad lightmap UVs)
* added BF1942 StandardMesh shader/texture loading

Many thanks for the suggestions and bug reports!

One other thing I should also note, the file extension binding has been changed, so that files can be sorted by file type properly in Explorer and Winzip again. You might have to open the Options > Preferences window, and click Apply for this to take effect.

If there are any regressions, I'd like to hear about it.

Webpage and screenshots updated. Other good news, most Battlefield Play 4 Free files also work in BfMeshView. Some files do not load properly, I may or may not improve that.

MaxScripts updated as well: http://www.bytehazard.com/bfstuff/
My webhost erroneously restored an old backup a while ago without my knowledge, so some users may have downloaded outdated scripts. Re-download if you're having trouble.

My webpage has now been moved to ByteHazard, which is where it will stay for time being, so update your bookmarks.

* BF2 animation playback!