Reverse engineering of Wipeout 3 SE

[aybe]

EDIT

Here is the suite of 4 utilities to unpack PBPs for WO3:

• a GUI app that will process a folder of many PBPs
• individual command-line tools to deal with PBP, CMP, TIM
• (the UnpackCMP and UnpackTIM also work for Wipeout 1/XL/PC)

here: https://github.com/aybe/WXX-Rebirth/releases/tag/latest (check README.TXT)

There won't be anymore updates as I think they are mature enough : they successfully produced nearly 40K files (all WO3 versions).

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Houston, we have track data !!!



After much struggling with those command-line utilities, here's finally some result !

There's still a lot to be done but this is motivating nonetheless.

[Xpand]

You're doing an amazing job man! Congrats!

[aybe]

Thanks

[tigrou]

Great job. I'd like to help but don't from know where to start.

Anyway: which track is this ? (I'm not a Wipeout3 fan at all, I mostly played WOXL and W1 (a little bit)).

I can't find it there : http://wipeout.wikia.com/wiki/Wipeout_3

Also why are textures like that (flat single color) ?

[Ace3000]

That's one of the Prototype tracks. You get them by completing certain things (I know it has to do with single race mode).

Also, the "flat colours" are part of the Prototype tracks art style. There are about 6 Prototype tracks in total, all of them have that minimalistic style except for a couple.

[aybe]

Great job. I'd like to help but don't from know where to start.

Anyway: which track is this ? (I'm not a Wipeout3 fan at all, I mostly played WOXL and W1 (a little bit)).

I can't find it there : http://wipeout.wikia.com/wiki/Wipeout_3

Also why are textures like that (flat single color) ?

I am going to publish a new tool and an Excel file prolly within 2-3 days, currently working on the spreadsheet to try identify what is what and so on ... the new tool is way better/faster, what used to take nearly 30 mins now barely takes 2 mins -> the extraction of every PBP. I manually checked WO3SE and it pretty much recognized 99% of files, there are 39530 files BTW And the tool is a GUI, no more command line , just choose input/output folders and watch it extract.

The plan:

• find which PBP is which track
• try attack the hintful ones (proto 2, 3)

Also I should get this 3d vertex picker up as I guess it'll be mandatory because while plot.ly is great to quickly preview data, it doesn't show much infos.

[aybe]

Quick update

The new unpacker:
snap0815.png

A track's vertex data:
snap0816.png

Will post the unpacker soon !