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Legacy_Carcerian

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« on: November 10, 2014, 04:25:53 am »


               

I found a way back machine web archive of the site made by Bioware's Torlak (Tim Smith), but it is giving a malicious page warning (AVG) on opera browswer.


 


http://web.archive.o...=nwndata_binmdl


 


Is this a false positive, or is there a alternative version of the info given here?



               
               

               
            

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« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2014, 04:26:30 am »


               

NWN Binary Model Files Basics


The binary format of the model files contains 3 main sections, the header, the model data and the vertex or raw data.


The header is a only twelve bytes long.  It provides us with the offset and size of the raw data, and a 32 bit value of 0.  The value of 0 is important since it can be used to tell the difference between an ASCII model file and a binary one.  The chances of an ASCII model file starting with 4 bytes of 0 is somewhere between zero and none.


 


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[Edit - Shortened as reformatted ver available below)



               
               

               
            

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« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2014, 06:22:38 am »


               

Cleaned up and reformatted version available here: http://neverwinterva...el-files-basics



               
               

               
            

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« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2014, 11:16:01 am »


               

@Carcerian I'm pretty sure that was a false positive. I also get it with opera 12. I didn't get it with Firefox 33.1 with the adblok+ plug-in/add-on/whatever. I have a web archive (.mht) version of that page now. pm me if you want a copy.


 


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« Reply #4 on: November 11, 2014, 06:14:02 pm »


               

That page is one of the best references, ever.  I only wish Tim could have been able to dig just a little deeper or that Bioware would have been as thorough documenting the binary model format as it was with the other file formats.  Still, awesome information.  Thanks, Carcerian!