[PC] HRC Resizer

[New Pagodi]

Could there be a one made for the battle models as well or give it support for them?  It would help great for us non-hex savvy modders for giving Sephiroth and other characters different animations and create new characters and bosses the way we in-vision them.

Possibly.  I need more information on what you want.

Yep that entry should be ignored.
While you at creating a new program I could need two new functions: one is to change the vertices type to 0, 1 or 2 (http://wiki.qhimm.com/view/FF7/P#.P_File_Header), the other is to remove the textured flag from a group of a p-file. I have ask Dan already for that and he would do it, when he gets the time for it. However if you already working on a similar tool there is probably no need for another tool.

Again possibly.  My background is primarily in parsing and processing text based files, but I should be able to write something to manipulate binary info.  Looking over that page, I can certainly change the byte to set the vertices type, but I'm not sure what the what the textured flag is.

 

[genesis063]

I'm not sure how it works exactly as I am a total noob with that stuff.  I would think at the very least you can have a function to compare say Sephiroth with Cloud animations to their bones then allow for Sephiroth file to be edited to that number.  You could then load that file into his model and just rearrange the parts from scratch to play out how you like them.  I know one hexer did this and it worked and he said he just had to redo the animations so they don't stay a mess with Kimera.  That is basically it and limits have their one file for it from a different lgp but it still loads.  The main reason we need to edit the bones in the files is because it just wont load otherwise.

 

[obesebear]

I'll just say that adding bones is all week and good, but if you're wanting to do that and create new animations, I would try to see how hard it is to deal with animations in kimera before tackling such a monumental task

 

[Kaldarasha]

So I tested few of the edits for the settings I need. The Vertices setting does only need a fix Vertices button, because mode 2 is probably the flag the game use to hide a model. So the program should set it only to mode 1. The texture flag is harder to get rid of as I expected, because it needs to make the NumTexCoords to 0 as also it needs to remove the array were the text coords are stored. Here are two test files I made:https://mega.nz/#!udlDSQBb!OjM026qUn6gOiII0pzrNCpQc6Wx9pND_wRr5PLVyQfY
The array starts at 000027C0x8.
Is it actually possible to cut out code from a file?

 

[genesis063]

I'll just say that adding bones is all week and good, but if you're wanting to do that and create new animations, I would try to see how hard it is to deal with animations in kimera before tackling such a monumental task

This came from meesbaker he is the one that told me all he had to do once he changed it was to then edit them in Kimera to play right on Sephiroth's model.  You can probably get more detail from him.  I just and probably many others just need a program to make up for our lack of hex editing to make it possible for the rest of us.  The biggest issue is the bones that are counted into the models for those animations.

 

[New Pagodi]

So I tested few of the edits for the settings I need. The Vertices setting does only need a fix Vertices button, because mode 2 is probably the flag the game use to hide a model. So the program should set it only to mode 1. The texture flag is harder to get rid of as I expected, because it needs to make the NumTexCoords to 0 as also it needs to remove the array were the text coords are stored. Here are two test files I made:https://mega.nz/#!udlDSQBb!OjM026qUn6gOiII0pzrNCpQc6Wx9pND_wRr5PLVyQfY
The array starts at 000027C0x8.
Is it actually possible to cut out code from a file?

I tried writing a viewer to see if I could at least read the data in those files.  Since I don't know what the numbers are supposed to be I don't know if I'm reading them right.  Can you try it and see? 

I'm pretty sure that I'm at least reading the floats wrong, because in the bounding box section of one of the files you uploaded, the utility the utility reads the maxz as less than the minz.  That obviously can't be right.

One problem I already see is in the "Hundreds" section of the file.  The link you gave says it's a "Complex structure that specifies render state (texturing, blend modes, culling, filtering, depth testing, depth masking, shademode etc)" 

Do you have the details of that structure?  It seems to be of variable size.  In one of the files you uploaded, it appears to be 108 bytes and in the other it's 104 bytes.  In the viewer, I simply output the bytes in hex and decimal since I don't know what the bytes are supposed to mean.

edit: updating the link.

 

[New Pagodi]

After looking at a few more pfiles, I guess the hundreds structure is not variable size but always 100 bytes (hey, it's right there in the name). 

But there seems to be an extra 4 bytes between the groups items and the final 2 items (Bounding boxes and the Normal index table). 

At least with these 2 assumptions, the numbers the viewer spits out seem to make more sense.

Also, there seems to be an extra 4 bytes (all zeros) at the end the Swordtest.p file that was uploaded.  That's why I originally thought the hundred table was variable size.  Are those extra bytes supposed to be there?