Itzamna
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Howdy disciples,
I am starting work on porting (writing from scratch, actually) Black & White to the GNU/Linux and BSD platforms, since my all time favourite game hardly runs in the Windows emulator WINE (textures are messed up, due to some legal dispute over DXT3 texture decompression patents).
I am building up documentation of the game's file formats and writing utilities to convert all models and textures to non-patent encumbered formats (MD3, SVG). While textures were no problem, I'm having a hard time reversing L3D files. Then I remembered DarkYoda made an L3D Visualizer in the distant past, and he released its source code. However - all links to DarkYoda's L3D Visualizer's source code are dead (to be expected, the game is closing in on its 10th birthday).
So, my question is this:
Does anyone have 1) L3D Visualizer's source code, 2) Documentation on the L3D file format or 3) A way to contact DarkYoda?
Your help would be a boon to both the free software community and the Black & White community.
Thanks in advance,
- Itzamna
I am starting work on porting (writing from scratch, actually) Black & White to the GNU/Linux and BSD platforms, since my all time favourite game hardly runs in the Windows emulator WINE (textures are messed up, due to some legal dispute over DXT3 texture decompression patents).
I am building up documentation of the game's file formats and writing utilities to convert all models and textures to non-patent encumbered formats (MD3, SVG). While textures were no problem, I'm having a hard time reversing L3D files. Then I remembered DarkYoda made an L3D Visualizer in the distant past, and he released its source code. However - all links to DarkYoda's L3D Visualizer's source code are dead (to be expected, the game is closing in on its 10th birthday).
So, my question is this:
Does anyone have 1) L3D Visualizer's source code, 2) Documentation on the L3D file format or 3) A way to contact DarkYoda?
Your help would be a boon to both the free software community and the Black & White community.
Thanks in advance,
- Itzamna