3D Track Simulations - Fly through and Free View

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Originally Posted by tigrou

@aybe: nice findings. I would suggest as other members that you open a new thread in Wipeout3 section (and edit your answer to remove content).

about W2097/XL WebGL experiments : I have open a new thread for this

@Xpand : if it is not possible to find out format by just looking the binary data the best bet would be to ran the game in a debugger (like NO$PSX) and go step by step to see how data is parsed.
Hard, but not impossible.

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New place for the PBP format

http://www.wipeoutzone.com/forum/sho...BP-file-format

Experiment

see my updated fork which,

• adds WOXL tracks to the menu
• adds Moongoose tiny web server so you don't have to mess with your browser or source files, simply run it and it will open the page on your default browser (Windows-only)

https://github.com/aybe/wipeout

http://www.wipeoutzone.com/forum/sho...174#post243174

no$psx

Sadly I don't know MIPS assembly which would otherwise make the thing relatively easy, basically once you know which address references a file name, you'd simply step through the code and sooner or later would understand how many bytes are read and what's being done with them and so on.

One hope is that no$psx can return a vertex's data, if yes then we'd run few searches on these files to see whether vertex data is here as-is or is encoded.

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Notes for WOXL:

• camera will go berserk at times
• some of the textures are wrong (picked from WO?)

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EDIT 1

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Originally Posted by Xpand

Wo3's files are completely encrypted. It'd take some god-like hacking to get anything out of there without knowing the encryption algorithm.

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actually they might not be out of reach -> more PBP stuff : http://www.wipeoutzone.com/forum/sho...171#post243171

they are encoded using LZ77 (like CMPs)

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Vertex data is on its way !

http://www.wipeoutzone.com/forum/sho...171#post243171

I'm pretty sure we'll get the WO3 data in the real format but I'll clearly need some help in interpreting them !

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Dominic has just updated and fixed the experiment with WOXL : http://phoboslab.org/wipeout/ :hyper

I have this bookmarked on Google Chrome, such an interesting way to see how the tracks were designed and the level of detail that the PS1 was capable of and how much effort from SL they put into the game :)

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Originally Posted by aybe

Dominic has just updated and fixed the experiment with WOXL : http://phoboslab.org/wipeout/ :hyper

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The site is not working for me anymore. I visited it today and I can't select any tracks...
Update:
Ok, it is working now. For some reason the site works in Internet Explorer but not in Firefox for me.

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Originally Posted by aybe

Dominic has just updated and fixed the experiment with WOXL : http://phoboslab.org/wipeout/ :hyper

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A few ground textures are not correct (too many chessboard textures) but maybe this is because of my browser (Firefox). Overall the tracks look great.

Aren't these the checkpoints?

Amazing. Though I wonder why some of the track textures look off... hmm...

In either case, this totally made me happy! :D

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Originally Posted by vincoof

A few ground textures are not correct (too many chessboard textures) but maybe this is because of my browser (Firefox). Overall the tracks look great.

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no, that's not your web browser,

@all: you are welcome to report an issue at https://github.com/phoboslab/wipeout/issues.

Just released the PBP unpacker, at this page : http://www.wipeoutzone.com/forum/sho...BP-file-format

:hyper

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Originally Posted by aybe

no, that's not your web browser,

@all: you are welcome to report an issue at https://github.com/phoboslab/wipeout/issues.

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https://github.com/phoboslab/wipeout/issues/6

;)

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Originally Posted by aybe

Just released the PBP unpacker, at this page : http://www.wipeoutzone.com/forum/sho...BP-file-format

:hyper

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Did you also have a look at WipEout 64:

https://github.com/phoboslab/wipeout/issues/4

?