The missing plotline cutscene ending "The Party" leaves modders an opening!
Posted: Fri, 10. Mar 06, 22:26
If anyone is interested and have 3D Max and DBox2 plug-ins and like looking though about a hundered .bod files in the objects\cuts directory
if you've unpacked the .cat files using X3 mod manager:
There's a full cutscene in there that you'll need Character Studio 4.2 or higher to really see that can only be the "Party" Saya talks about going to at the end of the plot line!!!!!! it's in about seven parts and it really takes a long search of the .bod in a text editor to piece together, but it's all there if anyone's interested it includes a full planet surface scene, a shuttle landing-Saya and Julian entering a room with a crowd of characters that are really fantastic, but the anamation is screwed up as the motion files for the character's bone rigs is missing. Finally AND GET THIS! It finishes with a FTB (Fade to black) with Julian and Saya kissing, only in the .bod the direct to the bones is missing and it substitutes two oblong box "helpers" moving together, but those are the helpers for Julian's and Saya's bone rigs!!!!! It would have been fantastic in the game but I guess since EGOSOFT opted for mostly rendered cutscenes instead of in-game ones they dropped the project from the game, but the files are still there in the cuts!!!! This might give modders the ability to have "On the planet" mods" as the scenes are there for the using!
(Listen, there is a BUNCH of them strung together, so find which ones yourself as there listed in NUMBERS like "10900.bod...etc" So just
truck though the .bod scenes, there's also entire stations not seen in the game that make BALLY's CASINO look like a Church! Complete with rotating signs and massive thrusters on the bottom!!!! If you have 3D Studio Max with Character Studio you'll also find the bone rigs and body for SAYA!!!! WOOOHOO!!! Only the textures were re-directed to others so she'll look pretty screwed up UNTIL you change the .dds files to .jpg and look for her face texture (IT's there) and put in on the body mesh, then if you clean up the other textures you'll have a working SAYA from head to toe!!!!
Thought I'd pass this along to the modding people as I spent about two whole days looking at all the neat stuff in the objects\cuts directories and others and shocked at how much isn't even in the game!!!!! TALK ABOUT
"DELETED SCENES!!!" PLUS this directory also has the .bods for the missing EARTH ships that are really neat!!!!
Good hunting!!!
Hank001
if you've unpacked the .cat files using X3 mod manager:
There's a full cutscene in there that you'll need Character Studio 4.2 or higher to really see that can only be the "Party" Saya talks about going to at the end of the plot line!!!!!! it's in about seven parts and it really takes a long search of the .bod in a text editor to piece together, but it's all there if anyone's interested it includes a full planet surface scene, a shuttle landing-Saya and Julian entering a room with a crowd of characters that are really fantastic, but the anamation is screwed up as the motion files for the character's bone rigs is missing. Finally AND GET THIS! It finishes with a FTB (Fade to black) with Julian and Saya kissing, only in the .bod the direct to the bones is missing and it substitutes two oblong box "helpers" moving together, but those are the helpers for Julian's and Saya's bone rigs!!!!! It would have been fantastic in the game but I guess since EGOSOFT opted for mostly rendered cutscenes instead of in-game ones they dropped the project from the game, but the files are still there in the cuts!!!! This might give modders the ability to have "On the planet" mods" as the scenes are there for the using!
(Listen, there is a BUNCH of them strung together, so find which ones yourself as there listed in NUMBERS like "10900.bod...etc" So just
truck though the .bod scenes, there's also entire stations not seen in the game that make BALLY's CASINO look like a Church! Complete with rotating signs and massive thrusters on the bottom!!!! If you have 3D Studio Max with Character Studio you'll also find the bone rigs and body for SAYA!!!! WOOOHOO!!! Only the textures were re-directed to others so she'll look pretty screwed up UNTIL you change the .dds files to .jpg and look for her face texture (IT's there) and put in on the body mesh, then if you clean up the other textures you'll have a working SAYA from head to toe!!!!
Thought I'd pass this along to the modding people as I spent about two whole days looking at all the neat stuff in the objects\cuts directories and others and shocked at how much isn't even in the game!!!!! TALK ABOUT
"DELETED SCENES!!!" PLUS this directory also has the .bods for the missing EARTH ships that are really neat!!!!
Good hunting!!!
Hank001