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Big Blue Box Mesh Format

Tagged Model Format

3DMF

3D Mesh File

3DRT

(File Size of all Chunks)

MTLS

Material List (File Size of All MTRL Chunks)

MTRL

Material Description

MTLE

Extended Material Properties

MMAP

Mapping Info

SUBM

Sub-Mesh

TRFM

Transformation Matrix

PRIM

Primitive

TRIS

Triangle List

SMTH

Smoothing Groups

VERT

Vertex List

UNIV

Unique Vertex Information

VGRP

Vertex Group

BONE

Bone

CLTH

Cloth

HLPR

Helpers

HPNT

Helper Point

HDMY

Dummy Object

HCVL

Convex Volume

Compiled Model Format

//char					NullTerminatedString[x];
byte					SkeletonPresent;
float					floats[10]; //Model Origin?? Listed in .big Sub-header...
word					HPNT_Count;
word					HDMY_Count;
dword					HLPR_Index_Uncompressed;
word					padding;
word					HPNT_Compressed;

Helper Points[HPNT_Count];

word					HDMY_Compressed;

Helper Dummies[HDMY_Count];

word					HLPR_Index_Compressed;
word					HPNT_IndexSize;
char					HPNT_Index[HPNT_IndexSize-2]; //Subtract the size
char					HDMY_Index[HLPR_Index_Uncompressed-HPNT_IndexSize]; //Rest of helper index deduced
dword					NumberMaterials;
dword					NumberSurfaces;
dword					NumberBones;
dword					SizeOfBoneIndex;
byte					Unknown;
word					Unknown;
word					Unknown;
word					Compressed;
word					Bone_Index_Reference[NumberBones-1];
word					BoneIndexCompressed;
char					BoneIndex[SizeOfBoneIndex];
word					CompressedSize;

Bones SUB CHUNK 1[NumberBones];

word					CompressedSize;

Bones SUB CHUNK 2[NumberBones];

word					CompressedSize;

Bones SUB CHUNK 3[NumberBones];

float					Matrix[12]; //Transform Matrix

Helper Points

float					Matrix[4]; //No Rotation
long					hierarchy;

Helper Dummies

float					Matrix[13];
long					hierarchy;

Bones

SUB CHUNK 1

long					Index;
long					Parent;
long					nChild;
float					Matrix[12];

SUB CHUNK 2

float					Matrix[12];

SUB CHUNK 3

float					Matrix[16];

Material List

dword					Material_Index;
char					NullTerminatedString[x];
dword					Padding;
dword					BASE_Texture_ID; //From Texture.big
dword					BUMPMAP_Texture_ID; //From Texture.big
dword					REFLECT_Texture_ID; //From Texture.big
dword					Unknown;
dword					Max_Texture_Layers;
dword					Glow_Strength;
byte					Unknown;
byte					Alpha_Enabled;
byte					Unknown;
word					Ignored; //For degenerate Tri's

Sub-Mesh

dword							Hierarchy;
dword							DestroyableMeshLevels;
float							floats[5];
dword							nFaceVertexIndices;
dword							nFaceVertexIndices_BoneIndice;
dword							nVerts;
dword							nFaces;
dword							nSourceVerts;
dword							Unknown;
dword							Unknown;
dword							Unknown;
struct structMTRLnFaceVertexIndices			FaceIndices[nFaceVertexIndices];
struct structMTRLnFaceVertexIndicesBoneIndice		Face_BoneIndices[nFaceVertexIndices_BoneIndice];
float							floats[8];
dword							sVert;
dword							padding;
//Start of Mesh

Quick notes on sVert “Size Vertice Blocks”….

20 - 28byte float coords, bones, packed normals, s11e4 tu tv
6 - 28byte packed coords, bones, packed normals, s11e4 tu, tv, dword[2]
4 - 36byte float coords, float normals, float tu tv, dword meshlevel
22 - 36byte float coords, bones, packed normals, s11e4 tu,tv, dword[2]
4 - 12byte packed coords, packed normals, s11e4 tu tv
4 - 20byte packed coords, bones, packed normals, s11e4 tu tv
20 - 20byte float coords, packed normals, s11e4 tu tv

Dynamic Clothing

 struct CLTH
{
	//DWORD				SubMesh_ClothCount; 
	DWORD				Cloth_ID;
	DWORD				??_ID; //possibly material ID
	DWORD				sChunk; //Size of full clothing data
	DWORD				Unknown5;
	DWORD				sDistanceIndice;
	CLTH_Distance*			DistanceIndice;//[sDistanceIndice/28]; //Distance between two particles
	float				Unknown8;
	float				Unknown9;
	float				Unknown10;
	DWORD				sParticleIndice;
	CLTH_Particle*			ParticleIndice;//[sParticleIndice];
	float*				ParticleAlphaIndice;//[sParticleIndice]; //How "free" they are. 0.0 = Static and gets a duped entry in verts
	DWORD				Unknown11;
	float				WindStrength; //strength
	char				EnableDragging; //enable
	char				RotationalDragging; //rotational
	float				StrengthDragging; //strength
	char				EnableAcceleration; //enable
	float				AccelerationDampening; //damping
	DWORD				nTriIndice;
	CLTH_Tri*			TriIndice;//[nTriIndice] Particles+"Unique" Verts
	DWORD				Unknown12; // looks like padding it
	DWORD				sTexIndice;
	CLTH_Tex*			TexIndice;//[sTexIndice]; //v1 = Particle/"unique" Vert, v2 = TexIndice
	DWORD				sVertexIndice;
	CLTH_Vertex*			VertexIndice;//[sVertexIndice];
	DWORD				sTexCoordIndice;
	CLTH_TexCoord*			TexCoordIndice;//[sTexCoordIndice];
	DWORD				sParticleMask;
	CLTH_PartMask*			ParticleMask;//[sParticleMask]; //Unique Particles in TriIndice
	DWORD				sVertMask;
	CLTH_VertMask*			Vertmask;//[sVertMask]; //Unique Verts in TriIndice
	//9 bytes of padding
	// 1 group for particles, 1 for verts
	DWORD				VGRPCount; // = Number of Bones
	VGRP**				VGRPs;
};
file_formats/bbm.txt · Last modified: 2007/03/12 00:49 (external edit)