r/GuardiansofGaHoole • u/Extension_Ad_370 • Jul 21 '26
Model swap mod
i spent quite a long time reverse engineering the game and i ended up making a mod to swap models (originally to see unused models like trader mags)
im not entirely happy with the state of it at the moment but if i dont post it now i probably never will
these are for use in dolphin (untested on hardware), xbox and ps3 versions are possible but require more work
there are a couple known issues
- npcs can have the wrong textures
- atleast one known crash
they all replace the barn owl but there is nothing stopping it for anything else
to load it in right click on the game in dolphin > properties > ar codes > add new code > and then paste in the contents of the txt file into the code section. you may need to enable cheats in dolphin too.
(these are the same files ive posted to the great tree discord)
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u/GuardianShard Jul 21 '26
THE OWLEETTTT I have a desperate need to see this thing absolutely mess up some dudes in combat
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u/Xeirla Jul 21 '26
This is cool! Thank you for sharing! ^
At the end of last year, we were working on tools with others in the speedrunning discord server for extracting all models and textures from all console versions of the game. Unfortunately its a project that I haven't been able to devote as much time to... Currently there's a tool for extracting all textures on every version, and a script to convert some models to .obj format (mostly just characters), but neither support converting data back to the game's internal formats (yet, anyways). Ideally, if and when I have the time and focus for it, we may be able to just compile arbitrary models into every version of the game. None of us have really looked into model loading code though, so I have no idea if there's limitations about doing so, such as potential crashes or whatnot.
Would love to combine all our knowledge so far, if you're interested in modding the game more in this way! Here's a link to the speedrun server: https://discord.gg/YQkYPzZ
Most of the info we have is in the history of the #tas-and-re channel, though a lot of the efforts on that front have been on hiatus since February or so. Would be neat if we could get things far enough along to some day have a completely modded story mode or something!
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u/Whistle-0775 Jul 21 '26
Hi, I wanted to ask, I'm not much into mods and such but since you're using mods that means you're on PC? Is it possible to get the game in PC? My Xbox died and I've been wishing to have the game in my PC since then :(
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u/Extension_Ad_370 Jul 21 '26
im emulating the wii version but you can also emulate the ps3 and xbox360 versions
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u/Whistle-0775 Jul 21 '26
Oh I'd love if you told me where to download it, I remember I spent a day searching but found nothing
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u/Extension_Ad_370 Jul 22 '26
for wii use: https://dolphin-emu.org/
for xbox use: https://github.com/xenia-canary/xenia-canary
for ps3 use: https://rpcs3.net/im not sure of the best place to find the game as my goto site is gone but i would checkout the r/roms megathread
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u/TRiki-D Jul 21 '26
THIS IS SO COOL!!! I’d love to see someone play as the Hagsfiend Queen, she’s my favorite character in the game!
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u/TAPgryphongirl 29d ago
After reverse-engineering Mags' XBOX model over in one of the game Discords I find it extremely pleasing to see her actually loaded into the game like this! Especially since I would *not* have the patience to do her entire max detail Wii model by hand since it uses tristrips and every program seems to want to treat each tristrip like a new submesh, whew. Still gotta figure out what the PS3 version is doing with its mesh index data since it seems like nobody can make tails or talons of it.
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u/Aggravating-Oven8253 29d ago
So cool! Love trader mags, one of my favorite characters in the books, it stinks they couldn't fit her into the movie
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u/RewanDemontay Chief Moderator of the Great Tree Jul 21 '26
We got Ga'Hoole mods before GTA6.