News

25/06/2008
Released a new version of the Gr2 Mesh Converter. Now you can skip the maxscript (.ms) export process.

Corrected infos about Petz 2006 (Catz and Dogz) and Petz 2007 (Catz 2 and Dogz 2) by Ubisoft. Thanks Topper Carson!

Support confirmed for Jimmy Neutron vs Jimmy Negatron by Awe Productions. More Infos in the games list.

16/06/2008
Added a new game to the games list: Catz II by Ubisoft. Thanks Topper Carson!

15/06/2008
The Download link of the Gr2 Mesh Converter was broken, now has been fixed. I also added the SMD tools you could need. Check out the download page.

10/06/2008
Thanks to the useful infos and tools provided by F. Fischer (aka SiENcE), I wrote a little tutorial about the import of .grn Granny1 files using the gr2 tools.

Added a new game (.grn format) to the games list: SpongeBob SquarePants: Employee of the Month by Awe Productions.

03/06/2008
Added a new game to the games list: Dungeon Lords by Heuristic Park, distributed by Dreamcatcher. Thanks Jwatson!

30/05/2008
Support confirmed for Stronghold 2. More Infos in the games list.

25/05/2008
Added detailed infos for a new game: The Settlers II - 10th Anniversary in the games list.

24/05/2008
Added a Docs section with detailed informations.

GR2 File Format

From the RadGameTools site:

Granny is a powerful toolkit for building all kinds of interactive 3D applications. It features the most efficient and flexible content exporters, data manipulation, and run-time animation system you'll find anywhere. It was built from the ground up to allow you to decide, on a case by case basis, precisely how Granny should be integrated into your code and art pipeline. It has been licensed by over 1,500 games since its release.

The Granny3d file format (extension .GR2) has been considered an impenetrable fortress, and that's one of the many reasons that make it so good and expensive: $12,500.00 for the PCs and $15,000.00 for the CONSOLEs.

Until now only meshes without skeletal data nor animations could be extracted from the .GR2 files thanks to the "Non-useful GR2->MS converter" (link). Along with Neverwinter Night 2 and Obsidian, Eclipse released some tools to handle their *.GR2 skeletal data in 3dsMax and GMax. My Skeleton and Animation Importer plugin is based on their "3ds Max MDB Importer/Exporter" (link), gently released with source.

There are many titles using this format for meshes, sketons and animations. I'm trying to track most of them, using the game list provided by radgametools. If you own one of the games and you are able to import the data in your 3d editor please drop me a line to update the list (gr2.decode@gmail.com).

Check our Tips&Tricks to see how to import GR2 data into your modelling application.

Notes

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