Hardware P3dO Explorer: 3D browser with TPL support

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Hi, I am the author of P3dO explorer (www.senosoft.com). P3dO stands for Photo 3D Object.
This an Explorer-ish 3D and image browser and in the last version I added the TPL format following a user request. Note that P3dO is shareware but image viewers are free and so is TPL. What is paying are 3D and ZIP viewers but you can use it as a browser for your TPL files. So feel free to give it a try. Any version the free or P3dO pro will show TPLs.

At the moment P3dO is showing I8, RGB5A3, RGBA8 and CMPR format and only the first texture. These limits because these were the only TPL files I got.
I would like to support more internal formats and also to show more than 1 texture. For this I just need TPL sample files and a PNG of what the final render should look like.
So if anybody is interested in providing me with these sample TPLs I will be able to complete the viewer (Note that viewing more than 1 texture in a TPL will not be free). Please contact me at support_at_senosoft_dot_com.

Thank you for reading.

Yarp
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Interesting piece of software!
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I'm gonna test it asap. ^^

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Ok, am I the only one seeing something strange in the name?

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For more TPLs, just get a regular PNG and TplMii from Wii.cs tools, and convert the PNG to the various TPLs it supports. Or just look at the source of libWiiSharp for documentation on TPL types.
 

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Hi SifJar, thanks for the tips. I'll give libWiiSharp a look of course.
What is TplMii ?

The reason why I was asking for somebody's assistance is that sometimes it is not obvious to tell if the render is correct or not if you are not a specialist. A PNG converted to a luminance image doesn't look like the original image anymore. I recall the CMPR TPl was really weird compared to the base image. I couldn't have tell if I was wrong or rigth.
I can do the RAW job alone but it has to be validated.


> Ok, am I the only one seeing something strange in the name

Yes, I have read this a number of times this is why I explained the name. So let me explain in detail.
I come from Poser 3D, P3D was a blink to Poser 3D and Star Wars C-3PO (P3dO is about character animation). That's where the name come from.
Ok, not a brilliant idea but my users get used to it and there are Internet references.
 

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i think your best bet for looking at these other TPL formats is to just rip then from your games. Mainly because you will be sure to get a TPL that was made by the official tools, and not by some other homebrew program that may have errors in it.

the surefire place to fine tpls are in the banners of channels and disc games. all the images you can see right on your TV as well, so you can be sure you converted it correctly.

Check the GH3 banner, it contains CI8 format textures. These are converted incorrectly in TplMii, but in the svn version of libWiiSharp they are converted correctly. If you look in the files of resident evil umbrella chronicles, there is a U8 archive hidden. And inside that archive are come TPLs that contain 8 textures each. I used these when I was testing my TPL conversions.


I would be REALLY impressed with your program if you supported the format of TPL used in the gamecube UFC game. These files contain a different magic word than all the usual ones. They are similar to the standard format, but not exactly the same. I have seen conversion for these that worked out to show the basic image, but it wasnt exact.

EDIT:

Also, most VC games have some I4, I8, IA4, and IA8 tpls in them. And the internet channel is full of them. Wiiware "alien crush returns" contains the CMP type. wiiware "bit trip beat" contains a CI4 format one. Im still searching for CI14x2
 

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Hi giantpune, thank you for those details. I agree that software conversions are not guaranteed to be 100% reliable, this is one of the why I was asking for assistance on this forum. Any chance you e-mail me those files (support_at_senosoft_dot_com). If not I will try to extract them but I am not a Wii specialist.

> I would be REALLY impressed with your program if you supported the format of TPL used in the gamecube UFC game
Sure, send them too.



> Forgive my OT, but... P3dO(Pedo) Explorer? Really?
Absolutely not, please read above.
 

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Im not going to email you any of these files, as they are copyrighted material. But grabbing them from the games is not a difficult task. For the channel banners, just unpack a wad, and open the 00000000.app with any U8 tool. For disc games use the exact same strategy, but look in their opening.bnr.

Also, i looked in the gamecube armymen game, there are TPLs in there that contain 170+ textures each. The developers have used it a a way to hold the sprites for an entire level in a single TPL file.

guitar hero 3 - opening.bnr
u8toy.png

wildwest wiiware 00000000.app
u8toy3.png

armymen gamecube TPL with 177 textures
u8toy4.png
 

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> Im not going to email you any of these files, as they are copyrighted material
Sure, I understand.

But this suppose I have the games and I don't.
Some friends of mine have Wii games can I read Wii games disc on a PC ?
Or can I donwload or buy binary stuff online ?

I think I will find some TPL eventually but it will be more difficult to find that particular ArmyMen Gamecube TPL.

Thank you for your advices anyway, I have a better understanding on how this works now.
 

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Yarp said:
> Im not going to email you any of these files, as they are copyrighted material
Sure, I understand.

But this suppose I have the games and I don't.
Some friends of mine have Wii games can I read Wii games disc on a PC ?
Or can I donwload or buy binary stuff online ?

I think I will find some TPL eventually but it will be more difficult to find that particular ArmyMen Gamecube TPL.

Thank you for your advices anyway, I have a better understanding on how this works now.
There are a few specific LG made PC DVD drives that can read Wii discs, other than that they must we ripped on a Wii console.
 

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Heres some i made myself from some stock images http://www.multiupload.com/6JVX5WZ3NZ . Its 16 different types of tpl, each with 2 textures. I cant say that the format is 100% correct. However, I have a program which correctly displays every official TPL Ive thrown at it. And that program also displays these correctly. So, if you can display these homebrew ones, then you probably will be able to display ones made with official tools.


ps...
if you get odd looking results on the CI4 ones, that is to be expected. The code used to create them stops adding colors at 16 and the photos i used originally had way more than 16 colors.
 

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> There are a few specific LG made PC DVD drives that can read Wii discs, other than that they must we ripped on a Wii console
Ok, so it's no even worth trying. Thanks SifJar.

giantpune, I got your sample files. Thank you so much, that's great. I am going to decode those asap.
Shouldn't be long, the problem is more to find sample TPLs than to read them
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