OoT3D Importer

A Blender 2.79 plugin for importing models from Ocarina of Time 3D.

Credits

  • @xdanieldzd, for reverse-engineering and documenting the CMB and CSAB formats.
  • Twili, for reverse-engineering and documenting the ZAR archive format and various additional research.
  • @M-1-RLG, AKA M-1, as his CMB plugin was used as the base of this importer.
  • @magcius, AKA Jasper, as their animated model viewer was ported to add CSAB support.

To-do

  • CMB support
    • Multiple meshes
    • Rigs
    • Materials
    • Textures
    • Alpha blend modes
  • ZAR support
  • CSAB support
    • parsing files
    • rotation keyframes
    • Link's animations
    • translation keyframes
    • keyframe tangents
  • Improve latency (especially for Link, his models take ~1 minute to load)
  • CMAB support (animated textures)
  • Bugfixes
    • Custom split normals cause weird shadows on meshes
    • Bone orientation is off by 90 degrees
  • Support for other Grezzo games
    • Majora's Mask
    • Luigi's Mansion

Usage guide

  • This is meant to be used with Blender 2.79.
  • The io_scene_cmb-master directory should be copied into [blender install directory]/2.79/scripts/addons, i.e. [blender install directory]/2.79/scripts/addons/io_scene_cmb-master.
  • Two new import options should appear: File > Import > OoT3D (.zar) and File > Import > CtrModelBinary (.cmb).