Jaharian hasn't been on my msn since the last time I helped him (which was when he began his thread).. I'm going to presume he died <.<
About the updates, I did have a few minor ones, but nothing overly noteworthy.
I guess I could post a few screenshots (mainly screenshots I've taken to show Thakis a while back)
BetaPhazon (No shaders used):
http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/1340/betaphzn1da.png
--(With Shaders)
http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/5868/wthshaders9ly.png
Enemy that was not included in game
http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/6549/enemy0ny.png (Side)
http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/327/enemy20qn.png (Top)
http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/5195/enemy31dr.png (Front/Upsidedown)
Beta Space Pirate
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/4840/betapir14vg.png
There is only a slight amout of files that actually do not work yet, though I pretty sure it's a straight forward fix. Mostly the small CMDLs do not open. (Usally ones that are < 1K) Again its probably a straight forward fix, So I should get onto that.
The viewer now opens models and loads the associated textures, however as I mentioned before, I just need to get the actualy placement of these textures on the proper groups. Recently though, it came to light that this might be stored in another file (CINF, holds joint information, and propably stores the scenegraph aswell). I guess I didn't tell you's that, but my viewer can view all the CINF files (just displays points wherever a bonen is.)
Samus's joints
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/7870/samjoints6al.png
But yeah, Here's a picture of what completed models should look like:
http://img434.imageshack.us/img434/1064/samus5lw.png
However note that most of that stuff was hard-coded, which is how I got the texture placements and what not. The -only- thing lacking from that image is gloss map support. I'm not going to impliment this, unless someone wants to buy my a new video card that can handle extensive shader support : )
Btw, gloss maps basicly limit the shaders, so when you Look at that samus picture, you'll notice that the shaders are applied to all the back connection material around her joints, and it also goes ontop of the black lines around her suit. This actually shouldn't happen (if you can rmember what she looks like in-game).
And.. *thinks* yeah, that should be it for now. I hope this is a good enough update for you : )
(I'm sorry though that it's been awhile, I didn't really have much new to show off, and no one had posted since febuary, so I thought the intrest had died down, as well as my jumping from project to project)
CMDL's are found in mainly every pak. Paks are a vast collection of files that partain to certain worlds/systems. And no, nothing can open a CMDL file unless someone has written a viewer for them (which to my knowledge, only my viewer can do at the moment). You'll find samus's arm cannon in SamusGun.pak, as well as TestAnim.pak (You'll probly want the ones in TestAnim, as it has the "cut-scene" version, which varies from pwer beam, to phazon beam. Whereas the SamusGun.pak is the one used during actauly play time (that gun is more detailed, but also is missing alot of it's right side and front areas, due to never actually seeing that side in game).