[FF7] World Map to .Obj Converter and back! (Download Missing)

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This is a little something I have been working on these last few days, basically it reads the entire worldmap and spits out an obj file which can then be opened in, for example, blender. From there it can be exported into obj again which can be fed into another tool which in turn generates a new set of .map and .bot files. It's pretty rough at the moment and engine limitations put some harsh restraints on what you can actually do so don't get your hopes up just yet.
What you can do for sure is adjust UV maps, which could some day lead to a much improved WMRP :)

I wanted to make some cool "proof of concept" screenshots but since I am completely and utterly unable to do anything productive in blender I opted for destructive instead. Bye bye Corel bridge!

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What now?!  ???
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Expect a release as soon as I get the time to polish the edges and make it a bit more user friendly.
 
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wow, nice work yet  again Aali! i can't wait to see what all we can do with this... and i can imagine the evil in some hardcore mods lol.
 
Aali you are god arn't you? Don't lie to me you are, I was just asking Halkun about this 3 weeks ago. You have continually proved to be the most valuable asset to FF7 PC ever!. Props and congratulations!. I am shaking with excitement!
 
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Wow great job cant wait to be able to do some work and see what i can whip up with that thing. Cant wait for the release.
 
I've also taken the time to add the relevant information about the worldmap format to the wiki, just in case anyone else is interested in the details.
 
Wow awesome work! So this will the the underwater / snow maps too?
 
Not at the moment. Its not particularly difficult to implement but I didn't think anyone cared about those anyway :P
 
So will this let you fix the towns and better the textures or just the world map?
 
So will this let you fix the towns and better the textures or just the world map?
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most of the towns are built from worldmap geometry, so in theory we can finally redo the towns properly.

Thank you Aali! I just wish i had more time to play with this new tool, too damned busy ATM.

lee
 
Aali are you a PROGRAMMING GURU?

Nice work, if only you could maybe spare a few minutes of your time as to teach me the wonders of your programming skills and how you go about doing the programming? :)
 
I was going through some old thread and found this and thought it was kinda funny

I don't think anyone will make an overworld editor, and if they do I don't see anyone taking the time to model all of that...  But if they do that would be INSANE! 

Anyways, I keep my original preference of Gaia, but Lifestream seems like a good one too.
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Also I was just wondering if you where gonna name your new tool after Gaia?
 
how does your new tool pull the texture data? Does it require the LGPs unpacked(i assume it does to render in blender), or are they extracted when you export the .map data? Just curious, i could polish off the "old" WRMP very quickly if i could create textures and instantly see the changes on the world map, instead of endless cycles of loading FF7, quit, make a small tweak, reload FF7, repeat 10x times and one texture is finished.

Just wondering, i cant wait to get my hands on this one ;)

Lee
 
From what i understand is this map can be re uv'd in blender to get rid of the horrendous tiling issues. Correct me if i am wrong aali.
 
You supply the textures yourself. The tool makes no attempt to extract them from FF7. I didn't bother with that because the textures aren't strictly necessary, everything still works if you dont have them, they will just not show up in blender.
 
The first step for a custom worldmap.
Someone open an Aali fanclub. I want to fill an application.
 
im more looking towards larger UV maps that span continents, that way textures can seamlessly blend across all terrain types, and new imperfections can be added and such. But i need to try the tool itself out first :)

lee
 
Be aware that texture coordinates are stored in one byte though. If you slap a 4096x4096 texture on there you will only be able to adjust it in steps of 16 pixels. Blender doesn't know about this of course, so it will just look crappy ingame. Anyway I dont think this will be useful for any major modifications, its better suited to fixing annoying corner cases.

The only thing holding back a release right now is that I dont know what to do with normals. Blender doesn't load normals, it likes to compute its own. This looks terrible when imported into FF7, the lighting is way too sensitive and some things that really shouldn't be affected by it are. But since world map lighting is broken in the PC version anyway I dont know if its really worth fixing or if I should just set all normals to point straight up, effectively disabling lighting.
 
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