Completed my harvesting of Oblivion architecture

Terrible excitement. I've finished my harvesting of the Oblivion architectuaral geometry and .dds textures.

2,012 architectural geometry files which shared 17,972 dds textures.

Bit of a long job this - the naturally easy way was to export everything, convert it and save it all with replaced textures (ie .png). The only problem is the texture count goes through the roof in both number and size.

Anyway, after a lot of faffing, my 'piggy-backing' of Oblivion's installed .dds textures is complete. Thanks to "Mark Sibly" for his work in updating Blitz3D recently to incorporate this for me.

It's not as easy as it sounds as some buildings use textures from multiple sources (ie 50 texture folders that are unrelational to each other).

The sneaky part is Oblivion uses (at least once each, but totalling hundreds) 47 duplicate texture names for various textures that are not necessarily duplicates - they just share the same name.

Belive me that mapping these textures, manually by hand, is an achievment.

I achieved this by converting the geometry and intercepting the geometry .MTL files (Material Definitions) then rerouting the texture paths on-the-fly.

I simply am the greatest.

self praise is no praise at all... unless your puki, then its elevated to a minor slur on yourself. Are you going to do a tutorial on the following bit puki? :-



I've kinda toyed with the idea of toying with the WOW 3d blah (not the online blah, the cheaper older stuff) but haven't got around to it, might have to wait 44 months for my sabbatical. Still, its good to plan ahead.

Am I missing something? You have figured out how to use Oblivion media for your own purposes - is that what you mean? Congratulations on the technical feat but I'm not sure what the point would be. You can't use any of it without spending the rest of your life in a courtroom surely? Unless you use it for purely private projects I suppose. I'm not being awkward here - I'm just genuinely intrigued why you would put in so much effort?

I don't think puki will ever use it for financial gain, he's a bit more like a music remixer for his own ends. Excuse my terminology but a lot of the time copying something is the sincerest from of flattery.

I don't think anyone could ever make any dosh from it.

What do you think puki ?

Well, I stole the media about a year ago - it's just I've now managed to do it without anyone noticing. I just discreetly leech it from the Oblivion directory. The cool bit is not having to recreate hundreds of thousands of multiple textures.

I am the slug that roared and ate sweeties.

don't gorge yourself on them now.....