How to rip N64 models/environments into Blender

[@Supervocetubeia64]

Tip for those who wants to remove the black parts from textures where it should be transparent, as you can see in the trees and fences. - On Blender, select one of the triangles that has the specific texture applied; - Go to the Shading tab and look at the nodes on the bottom half of the screen; - Plug the "Alpha" on the image texture node to the "Alpha" on the material node; - On the material settings, scroll down until you see some options with "Opaque" selected. Change the top one to "Alpha Clip". The black parts will now be transparent; - Repeat the process for every texture with transparent parts. Note: when you export it to an engine, it will most likely be displayed without the transparency again. Each engine will have a different way of handling that. On Unreal Engine, for instance, you'll have to make it a masked material.

[@checksam]

A note about textures: some models are converted some time during the original game's development from quads (4 vertices) to tri's (3 vertices) for optimization on the n64 hardware. for context of why this is an issue: textures back then were commonly 1/2 of some type of image or object, such as a pillar. in the stadiums of pokemon stadium, the textures are made to be laid out with quad faces, but are projected on tri faces and may have misaligned projected textures. misaligned textures can happen even on quad models, example: nidoking's stomach and mouth, sandshrew's face, etc. you can also see it in this video on the goombas. i'm not sure of the specifics of why this happens, but i think it has something to do with the original format the files are in. you'll have to do some manual UV editing, and worst case, edit parts of the model itself, such as rotating the face of the geometry of a wall instead of rotating the UV of that part of the model. in some instances, it may be easier to redo the entire model as close to 1-1 as possible via the shrinkwrap modifier or playing with materials and shaders to help 'layer' your model ontop the original. hope this helps!

[@DinoMoonCreations]

My life T.T I just spent 3 hours figuring this all out to get this exact problem with textures. I specificly need the pokemon models. I will look into it, but I think this sucks for me :P

[@ArtfulRascal8]

THANK YOU. man iv been at it all day trying to figure out how get this to work. i tried a few other methods that would have been NIGHTMARES. you are great for this.

[@Aydreinn]

This was the only video I could find on this. Thank you so much bro.

[@space_goat_v1337]

No problem! Hope it helped with any project of yours (:

[@Aydreinn]

@@space_goat_v1337I was ready to give up because I'm just not as tech savvy and I found this a week after you posted it. Now I'm able to do exactly what I've been trying to do. Thanks again bro 😎

[@chuganoga1908]

Amazing video man couldn’t find anything like this online I’m so glad you made this video!

[@GarlicToastOooo]

Greatly appriciate your help ❤ Super easy to follow, and quick.

[@zeroni77]

Thank you! straight to the point and easy

[@Maafia]

thank you so much!! this is awesome and very helpful!!

[@JimBimBum]

problem with the models resource is they never do 1:1 scale checks so i have an arwing around *maybe* 1:25 scale of a player or wolfen.

[@space_goat_v1337]

@@JimBimBum that's true, I've often had to manually scale it

[@thwinmaung]

how do i import the plugin to project 64

[@space_goat_v1337]

@@thwinmaung in the link in description where to download the plugin are instructions on how to install it

[@rageshadey]

Tried this in bomberman 64. Seems it has issues with the trees and completely crashes during the sewer savage boss fight.

[@AtomBishup]

Tried to open WWF War Zone in Project 64 and I only get error messages. Shame.

[@JAYTHEGREAT355]

can you do a video on how to rip the models , like mario and the bombs , i would like to 3d print characters adding more polygons so that the printer can print them .

[@space_goat_v1337]

@4:42 instead of deleting all the extra assets to get the map, you can just delete the map parts and leave mario etc instead. the bob-ombs tho are technically 2d and always face the camera to give the illusion of 3d

[@lugiakane470]

im currently ripping body harvest but the textures are 2d squares looks horrible is there a way to extract just the vehicle models and textures only as map interferes with scaling in blender where it looks tiny

[@space_goat_v1337]

@4:42 instead of deleting all the extra assets to get the map, you can just delete the map parts- maybe that will help just export the models so you can work with them without the level scaling

[@lugiakane470]

@@space_goat_v1337 problem with body harvest is it renders areas as you move and half incomplete could explain why map so big and hardware of the n64 was limiting i could you pictures if i could get hold of you to explain

[@nf7998]

How come after I apply the Nemu64 plugin in project 64 3.0 and then when I start Conker's Bad Fur Day it is mostly all black and most of the textures are missing and weird colors? Does this plugin just not work with Conkers Bad Fur Day?

[@space_goat_v1337]

I'm not sure and all I can find online are other ppl having issues with textures in other emulators so maybe it's just something with the way Rare did theirs for that game idk. If you figure it out lmk

[@nf7998]

@@space_goat_v1337 Yea Conkers Bad fur day it doesn't work I guess but other games it does. Do you know about the sizing like does it import the exact in game size?

[@Borwoski]

Is it possible to upload models without the use of an emulator? I'm currently on laptop

[@space_goat_v1337]

Whaddya mean?

[@gmabbit]

Nemu ripping in current year? i thought blender ppl used Fast64? The SM64 models on the models resource were ripped using a dae export version of Quad64 that dumps whole areas and their objects which you can find on the sm64 hacking resource document. TMR replaced the old nemu rips a couple years ago but they're still missing sub areas and level objects. Since Nemu is ripping what is rendered around the player including errors it's rather imprecise, which can be a nightmare for collision and texture mapping - the tri's misalign and refuse to turn back into polygons.

[@space_goat_v1337]

Using {current year} on a 2 year old video? lol jk, this is just the way I learned to accomplish what I needed to rip a couple maps to use for mods in a VR game I was playing at the time. I'm sure there are a lot more efficient ways to go about this, but this is just the way I did it

[@Mihacappy]

So i tried ripping a MK64 map, and half of it is missing... God damn LOD!

[@space_goat_v1337]

@@Mihacappy RIP

[@TheRogueEmpire]

thank you, these are very helpful and very appreciated, could you please make a step by step video on how to make a custom loadout, from blender to modkit? these text tutorials are very vague and not very helpful, and text tuts are very hard for me to understand. thank you.

[@space_goat_v1337]

I've never messed with loadouts myself sorry ):

[@rockstar0777.]

this is really dope but you went so fast

[@space_goat_v1337]

sorry about that, I didn't want it to drag on and figured people can pause and restart the video as needed. I'd recommend giving it a watch first to get the gist of it, then go back pause and watch. I'll try to keep it in mind for the eventual next part tho

[@boxMAN29]

Don't use this with Jet Force Gemini, this plugin doesn't render that game correctly

[@space_goat_v1337]

@@boxMAN29 dang that sucks, I didn't try that one. that games pretty fun

[@boxMAN29]

@space_goat_v1337 Yeah, a TON of graphical glitches

[@unvagodelrobloxito]

How rip n64 sounds

[@unvagodelrobloxito]

Someone teach me lol

[@space_goat_v1337]

Check out the sounds resource, it's a sister website to the models resource that had a bunch of ripped game sounds