Error when exporting 3d models

[VynalDerp]

Hi. I'm a few years late on this, but I love the PS2 Ace Combat games and when I found out about this I was very happy. Been wanting the AC textures to make PS2 accurate textures for planes modern games (like Arma 3). I was doing some messing around and attempting to export a 3d model when an error came up:

Could not find a part of the path 'C:\Users\Arthur\geo.obj'.

Seems the export path is a little messed up. I don't know if you'll even see this, but a fix would be awesome.

[LingKuja]

it's disheartening seeing how little interest there is for the PS2 Ace Combat games. I've been looking for a way to extract models for a very long time, but there's still no reliable way. NinjaRipper isn't even viable, since it's both paywalled, and it doesn't even work right anymore, plus even if it did worked, it needed for you to tweak the models since those would be heavily distorted. Something like this data extractor would be nice, but the only 3D models i could find were only for AC4, while the other 2 games had just textures.
I hope someone makes something like a texture and model extractor soon, it's been 20 years and there's still nothing.

[mirh]

https://github.com/krishty/acanalysis
https://zfx.info/viewtopic.php?t=4110&start=120#p69131

The other games should have the ripped models rippable through a custom pcsx2 build AFAIU

[LingKuja]

rippable through a custom pcsx2 build AFAIU

@mirh
Just no, please. The less I have to use/rely on PCSX2 the better. That emulator is becoming a joke. First they remove 3D Snapshots, then they remove plugins and mock everyone that used those, then they push a half tested database breaking support for some controllers and tell me to go check upstream only to be told that it was pcsx2's fault... Yeah, no thanks. They're just spitting in the face of FOSS now. BTW it's not a "custom pcsx2 build", it's an old 0.9.8 nightly version from forever ago.

Thanks for the links, I'll keep an eye on that thread, hopefully krishty is able to figure out how to extract the models, levels and textures (and animations too, that would be great) from the PS2's ace combat games, I'd love that. Although he did say that he doesn't have plans to do the same asset extraction project for the PS2 Trilogy.

EDIT: That version he forked from the chinese website still doesn't address much of the issues. Extracting some textures from AC0, and those becomes unusable mess; as well as AC4 models being nothing but a mess of vertices:

This is supposed to be an F-4. All models ends up like this.