MechWarrior 2: Resource Forum

Skyfaller wrote:Taken from http://users.tpg.com.au/nkjd245/mw2/bwd.txt

For anyone who's interested I've uploaded an updated copy of this file at the same address. It's still got a lot of gaps and is missing my notes on the
"CPGN" chunk, but is otherwise my current understanding of the BWD file format.

Nice Have you had a chance to look at the TBL files in the TABL directory yet? I think they need to be updated if you add a file, but I haven't had a chance to test this theory out yet

I *think* I've got most of the essentials worked out now, although there are still a few fields that I can't figure (I tried looking for some pattern in them the other night and eventually gave up). With any luck I'll finish the project for my missus soon and then I can go gangbusters on MW2 again

struct MW2_PRJ_directory_header { char marker[4]; // Marker string INDX DWORD structSize; // Size of this record, plus MW2_PRJ_Directory_Entries, minus 8 DWORD unknown; char directoryName[4]; WORD maxEntries; // (see below) WORD entryCount; // Number of entries after this header, including an initi...

I believe byte 1 of the poly record is some sort of control value/flags although I dunno the exact interpretation yet. I base this on the fact that: * Most regular mech polys seems to have a value of 0x64 or 0x6C here. * By contrast, the DUMMY.WTB (which I don't think is meant to be rendered) has a...

Thanks :-D I've got more: 00000000.png 00000063.png Same general setup, except that I've dropped a function into the loader that remaps certain BMID values as they're loaded in order to change the camo pattern (the above is tiger, or camo number 3). Specifically if the BMID values are 256, 258, 260,...

True enough, but good tools can make a world of difference to how quick you get there ;-) Figured out most of my problems with OpenGL (but not all) and have the following to show for it: 00000000.png 00000061.png I'm still having an issue that could best be described as depth buffer malfunction (bac...

Depends on the vendor for your graphics chipset I think. From memory Windows contains a software renderer that is OpenGL 1.1 compliant, and I believe this is meant to be overriden in the presence of vendor drivers? Nvidia supports OpenGL pretty well, and I'm pretty sure even the ATI Radeon in my 5 y...

I get the basics of OpenGL, but I've never really done anything significant with it (hence why I hoped to use MW2 as a learning experience for it :-)) If you can find your way thru Java, I'm happy to send you the code I wrote for this (the OpenGL portion is a spaghetti mess at this stage, but the ex...

Thankyou :-) I've tried testing the above theory, but unfortunately while I can successfully load & decode the data from file, my OpenGL skills are pretty poor so I haven't been able to properly render it yet :-P (Side note: for me, this MW2 project is meant to be a combo of reverse engineering ...