#something cool is there are some assets from fable 2 in the files

[aragaki]

Hello! I’ve been looking for someone who could rip the Fable 3 model files for YEARS! Is there any chance you could share the files? I’m dying to retexture some of them!

I don't really have internet good enough to handle uploading the files but I will gladly explain how I dumped them!! It's surprisingly easy

Models

First I downloaded the game from steamunlocked then BlackDemon's BNK browser program to extract the assets

Open BNK browser click open in the bottom left corner and find globals_models.bnk in Fable III/data/globals

And that's the vast majority of models right there!!

Click extract all (I reccomend making a folder to dump them all in) you'll have the .mdl files

You can get the DLC content (outfits, dog skins, characters) by opening dlc2free, dumping that, then finding globals_models and globals_textures in that dump and repeating the process above

Textures

Then you need to extract all the textures which you can do by opening globals_textures.bnk

Then you need to use the Fable 3 Tex Converter to convert the .tex into .dds which you can then change to .png in whatever program of your choosing.

I'll be honest, I haven't figured out how to work this thing out yet, it seems very finicky and I'm not keen on fighting with it for models I can't use. I suggest backing up the .tex files for each time you wanna try converting it, it's a lot of trial and error and corrupted .dds files

Models in Blender

And lastly you need the plugin that allows you to import the .mdl files into Blender!! The plugin was made by Keshire for Blender 2.82 but it works on 3.6.2, which is the version I have (though I did download 2.82 first before trying it on my newer version)

I apologize if this is hard to follow, I did my best but I am by NO MEANS expirienced in model ripping or making tutorials. This is just what I managed to put together from scrounging a bunch of different forums and modding sites.

And of course, the models will have broken weights so if you're like me who wanted to use them for fanart purposes, not much can be done with them