New (kinda) to modding EAW

[AdmarilRyan]

When EAW first came out I changed from modding another game to it straight away. I was around when all the early tools came out and when some of us here were rapidly unlocking stuff in the game. (there must have been about 50 venator mods in the first week after the demo.) I decided that for the meantime I'd mod my old game instead as the model conversion work could be accomplished with simpliar programs than 3dsmax. Because of a hardrive wipe or two since, i no longer have any tools save for max itself.

 

Now however, with the game I used to mod over 5 years old, and my having finally got a copy of Forces of Corruption, I want to have another go at modding EAW again. Thwe thing is, the tools and tutorials thread is a bit outdated, and some of the tools have broken download links and so on. I've searched on this forum, and on EAW files for a basic MEG extractor but very suprisingly I've been unable to find one. While I know full well that you can just download all the necessary XML files, there are plenty of other things that I'd like to look at modding (including getting round to learning how to use my copy of 3dsmax properly).

 

So to cut my babble short...where can i find a working MEG file extractor? Also if there is such a thing, I'd like to find a fully working DDS plugin for PaintShopPro7. If there are any other important tools that I might need then please tell me. I can easily get the model converter and I don't like to mod text files with anything other than wordpad/notepad due to the K.I.S.S principle, but I'd much appreciate any other sudgestions.

 

ps: Like the new theme the forum uses...well new since last I visited, it's probably looked like this for months, lol

[Dr. Nick]

I personally use Finalbig, I didn't want to have two programs for modding...

[AdmarilRyan]

Yes but I'm unable to get a hold of final big, thwe website's link to it is broken, the same goes for the sudgested meg editor in the tools and tutorials sticky thread. I've also remembered I'll need a DAT editor, but again when I try and download the sudgested one I get a broken link. Could someone provide me with  working links to the tools I'll need.

[MSEagle2]

Both of these worked for me...

dat editor: http://www.lucasfiles.com/index.php?file=1253

final big: http://files.filefront.com/FinalBIG+v04b/;4927356;/fileinfo.html

 

hope that helps

[AdmarilRyan]

Thank you very much, Everywhere I tried to look for a MEG editor, the download hade been removed, or the link was broken ect. I just hope I can remember how to use them now, lol.

 

Only thing now I'd like would a a PaintShopPro7 DDS plugin but I won't keep my hopes up.

[Dr. Nick]

Just use Photoshop, it's much better from what I hear.

[AdmarilRyan]

It could well be better, but the controls are all different and I've been using PSP for three years now. Then again, I could always just use photoshop as converter, providing I can find my copy. It would still be more convnient to work straight from PSP though.