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Since someone mentioned the 3D models on YT comments, I should mention that here is the thread where it happened: https://www.dinknetwork.com/forum.cgi?MID=208137#208151
They're also uploaded here under official files now.
There are a lot of interesting unused models in there, but you need some ancient version of 3DSMax to open them. So far, I haven't found a way to reliably automate converting them to Blender or something...
Oh yeah, almost forgot, if I remember correctly, the models unfortunately come with messed up texture paths so the textures might not load properly. They used absolute path names for the texture files, so you would have to have the exact same file structure as the original devs for them to work I suppose.
A while back I made a sort of tool in C# to try replacing all the absolute paths with paths relative to the model itself... I don't remember how well it worked, but here it is if you're curious: https://github.com/drone1400/DinkModelPathFixer I didn't include a binary release in the repo releases, but you can easily install Visual Studio Community and build it using that.
Oh yeah, some other interesting thing happening while you were gone, RW briefly returned for a while and released the source code for WinDinkEditPlus 2! You can find it in the Dev file releases here. I also forked it and started updating it in some ways, I have a release uploaded here as well.
PS: If you're gonna be playing more DMODs (and possibly making videos about them?), you should really check out Charlie's Legacy and Periculo Island, both released last year.
PPS: Almost forgot, dunno if you checked out DinkHD in previous years, but Seth has been updating it and it's really good right now in terms of compatibility with all the DMODs!
The 'official' FreeDink release however is lacking a maintainer, and we found a nasty bug related to external variables in some of its release builds that cause issues with some of the more extreme dinkc modern DMODs. For that reason, if using FreeDink for newer dmods, I would highly recommend yeoldetoast's fork of it instead: https://www.dinknetwork.com/forum.cgi?MID=208365&Posts=127 It has a lot of cool new features added, definitely check it out!
Since someone mentioned the 3D models on YT comments, I should mention that here is the thread where it happened: https://www.dinknetwork.com/forum.cgi?MID=208137#208151
They're also uploaded here under official files now.
There are a lot of interesting unused models in there, but you need some ancient version of 3DSMax to open them. So far, I haven't found a way to reliably automate converting them to Blender or something...
Oh yeah, almost forgot, if I remember correctly, the models unfortunately come with messed up texture paths so the textures might not load properly. They used absolute path names for the texture files, so you would have to have the exact same file structure as the original devs for them to work I suppose.
A while back I made a sort of tool in C# to try replacing all the absolute paths with paths relative to the model itself... I don't remember how well it worked, but here it is if you're curious: https://github.com/drone1400/DinkModelPathFixer I didn't include a binary release in the repo releases, but you can easily install Visual Studio Community and build it using that.
Oh yeah, some other interesting thing happening while you were gone, RW briefly returned for a while and released the source code for WinDinkEditPlus 2! You can find it in the Dev file releases here. I also forked it and started updating it in some ways, I have a release uploaded here as well.
PS: If you're gonna be playing more DMODs (and possibly making videos about them?), you should really check out Charlie's Legacy and Periculo Island, both released last year.
PPS: Almost forgot, dunno if you checked out DinkHD in previous years, but Seth has been updating it and it's really good right now in terms of compatibility with all the DMODs!
The 'official' FreeDink release however is lacking a maintainer, and we found a nasty bug related to external variables in some of its release builds that cause issues with some of the more extreme dinkc modern DMODs. For that reason, if using FreeDink for newer dmods, I would highly recommend yeoldetoast's fork of it instead: https://www.dinknetwork.com/forum.cgi?MID=208365&Posts=127 It has a lot of cool new features added, definitely check it out!
