DAOC 3D models - Phoenix Freeshard

I picked up a cheap 3D printer recently and was wondering if anyone knew of any 3D models of DAOC characters?

It seems that the data for this is somewhere on my computer since I see the characters on my screen. Is there a way to get this and transform it into a printable model?

Fri 10 Apr 2020 6:02 AM by inoeth

i would be interested too! even though im not sure if thats really worth, graphics in this game are not overwhelming

Fri 10 Apr 2020 8:29 AM by Astaa

As far as I know its the NIF files you need to look at, located in <Your installation folder> / figures. Not sure if you can open or view them.

https://fileinfo.com/extension/nif

Edit, the links go to various Gamebryo programs, I guess there must be some software somewhere to convert them to 3d printable models as its a pretty popular engine. Googling suggests that some people have extracted skyrim weapons etc and 3d printed them.

Fri 10 Apr 2020 8:26 PM by ZioRed

There's a plugin to import a NIF file (NetImmerse format) into Blender, but it requires some knowledge about how to use Blender and of course what are the files of models (mixed in the folders figures and items in your DAoC directory) and textures (they're usually in DDS format, I found that the folder "items" contains both models and textures of items). I remember to have successfully imported some models into Blender 2.49b years ago, but never went deeper on it since I didn't want to break EULA terms.

Anyway, just as proof of concept I tried again now and succeeded to replicate the steps:

Install Python 2.6.6:

here

Install Blender 2.49b (during installation select "Installation folder" when it asks where you want to save the user data, last installation step):

here

Install Pyffi 2.1.11:

here

Install NIF importer plugin for Blender:

here

Now launch Blender and you'll be in the default new scene window, delete the default objects in the scene (press the key "A", all objects will be selected, now press the key "DEL/CANC" and confirm "Erase selected objects"

, finally navigate the menu "File > Import > NetImmerse/GameBryo" in the list, select the NIF file you want to import (for example C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\Dark Age of Camelot\figures\midbody01heada.nif) and click "Import NIF" at top right, finally click "OK" in the next import settings panel.

You're done, or at least you have now imported the 3D mesh, and you can export to a format supported by 3D printers (I don't know what formats are supported by printers but I suppose that OBJ or FBX are pretty default). I'm not a 3D artist so I'm not able to use Blender properly and you'll have to ask for advice to someone else in order to apply textures etc, also I don't know where the textures of "figures" are (but anyway I saw that "items" have both models and textures, for example if you copy the files adr_dragonsworn_quiver.nif and adr_dragonsworn_quiver.dds and import the nif file then it will appear textured).

Fri 10 Apr 2020 8:44 PM by inoeth

ZioRed wrote: ↑
Fri 10 Apr 2020 8:26 PM
There's a plugin to import a NIF file (NetImmerse format) into Blender, but it requires some knowledge about how to use Blender and of course what are the files of models (mixed in the folders figures and items in your DAoC directory) and textures (they're usually in DDS format, I found that the folder "items" contains both models and textures of items). I remember to have successfully imported some models into Blender 2.49b years ago, but never went deeper on it since I didn't want to break EULA terms.

Anyway, just as proof of concept I tried again now and succeeded to replicate the steps:
Install Python 2.6.6:
here
Install Blender 2.49b (during installation select "Installation folder" when it asks where you want to save the user data, last installation step):
here
Install Pyffi 2.1.11:
here
Install NIF importer plugin for Blender:
here

Now launch Blender and you'll be in the default new scene window, delete the default objects in the scene (press the key "A", all objects will be selected, now press the key "DEL/CANC" and confirm "Erase selected objects", finally navigate the menu "File > Import > NetImmerse/GameBryo" in the list, select the NIF file you want to import (for example C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\Dark Age of Camelot\figures\midbody01heada.nif) and click "Import NIF" at top right, finally click "OK" in the next import settings panel.

You're done, or at least you have now imported the 3D mesh, and you can export to a format supported by 3D printers (I don't know what formats are supported by printers but I suppose that OBJ or FBX are pretty default). I'm not a 3D artist so I'm not able to use Blender properly and you'll have to ask for advice to someone else in order to apply textures etc, also I don't know where the textures of "figures" are (but anyway I saw that "items" have both models and textures, for example if you copy the files adr_dragonsworn_quiver.nif and adr_dragonsworn_quiver.dds and import the nif file then it will appear textured).

send me my char as .stl or .STEP plz

Fri 10 Apr 2020 8:50 PM by ZioRed

inoeth wrote: ↑
Fri 10 Apr 2020 8:44 PM
send me my char as .stl or .STEP plz

STL format is built-in so you can export the models to that format, follow the steps above

Tue 14 Apr 2020 7:55 PM by chryso

Thanks for the info, this is really neat. The downside is that it sounds like I can't just pull out a version of my character all in one go. I would have to pull out the body and each piece of armor and weapon individually. Would there be a way to put all of that together?

Thu 30 Apr 2020 5:08 AM by phelger

Hey, nice to see other people looking into this.
I've been poking at it in my spare time with no real results yet.
Would be cool to see daoc stuff start showing up on thingiverse.

Sat 2 May 2020 11:19 AM by LocalIdiot

Can someone please post the Lurikeen models? Right now I have a garden gnome guarding my catnip, but what I really want is a few one-foot tall Lurikeens doing that job.