MechVM is a GUI for a collection of tools that are hoped to helpful in dealing with MW2. It can help install MW2, reverse engineer, and may include a simulation replacement at some point in the future.
I integrated the installer & mech extraction into just one button for the sake of simplicity. So yes, you need to install in order to get the mechs. Previous versions didn't do this, but it seems to be more intuitive this way, and for now, both the installed version and the extraced mechs are necessary, so why not do both at the same time?
The videos on my web page are meant to demonstrate that I have extracted all mechs in MW2 and can provide simple animations. I wanted to create a simulation, but I was busy so far with figuring out all kinds of stuff in MW2, which kept me from making progress on the sim.
Figuring out MW2 texturing would help me texture the extracted mechs and it would help with modding, so it's worth a look. After that, I'll want to finish the mech lab, which appears to be almost complete. Only then does working on the sim make sense again. I'd also love to provide a simple editor to place WTB files into a map as a simple map editor. You've proven it to be possible, but it's more work than can be done in a matter of weeks.
Comments on this are highly welcome.
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