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Illusion Games general modding guide

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{{IllusionGames Modding}}
== Basic concepts ==
The concept of modding basically boils down to modifying the data read by the game to change the game's behavior. Common things to mod including translation of in-game buttons (which are pictures), in-game story (which are text), clothing (textures), and skin/uncensor (textures).

The data that needs to be modified are often packed in a larger file. Thus a modder first needs to use a tool to extract the data out, modify it, then put it back in.

Different games may have different details in how data are packaged, and what needs to be modded.

== Common tools ==
For extraction/insertion:
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! Name !! Games supported !! Ability
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| BXPlay || DB4, DBVR || Plays .bxn movie files, allows extraction of still images
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| SB2TCP || IPVR, SB2, Biko 3 || Extract and inject images (BMP and TGA) from Illusion packages (.fpk and .pp). Does not work on .pp files of newer Illusion games.
|-
| IluPak || Rapelay, SB3 || Unpack and repack .pp files. Does not work on .pp files of older Illusion games.
|-
| ILLUSIONist || Rapelay, SB3 || inject files into .pp files
|}

For data modification:
{| border=1
! Name !! Usage
|-
| Adobe Photoshop || Image editing
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| GIMP || Image editing
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| MS Paint || Image editing
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| Notepad || Text editing
|-
| frhed || Hex editing
|-
| Metasequoia || 3D editing
|}
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==Files and Subfiles==
* [[:Category:.pp]]
** [[.eyes]]
** [[.neck]]
** [[.sviex]]
** [[.xl]]
** [[.xx]]

==Misc==
* [[Afkhound_LST_injection_format]]

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.xx subfiles include everything needed for the definition of 3d characters, items and maps. The structure consists of the skeleton, a list of materials, another list for textures. Meshes are embedded into the skeleton.

==Textures==
Textures have a name, resolution and some other metadata. Then follows the image's raw data in one of the following formats: BMP, TGA, JPG, EMA. The content can differ from the extension given in the name.

==Materials==
A material has the following attributes: diffuse, ambient, specular, emissive and specular power. These attributes change the look of textures. Upto four texture names can be defined in a material.

==Skeleton==
The skeleton is based on frames which are arranged in a hierarchy. The tree like structure is achieved by a list of child frames in each frame. A frame further consists of a transformation matrix which allows the animation to use it as a bone. Optionally one mesh can be included in a frame.

===Mesh===
A mesh is a container for submeshes. It can include a reduced list of vertices which includes no duplicates. Skinned meshes have a list of bones.

The most important members of a submesh are a list of vertices, another for the faces and a material name.

A vertex defines a 3d point, a normal, a uv coordinate pair and an array of upto four relations to bones. A face consists of three indices into the vertex list.

==Unknown Values==
Each of the structures: Texture, Material, Frame, Submesh and Vertex can have additional members called unknowns. Those values can be specific for one game. E.i. Submeshes can be made invisible or transparent with certain values.

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