Fix Any Cosmetic Pak Mod Broken By Oct 2024 Update - Quick Guide - No Coding Modeling Necessary

This method potentially fixes any cosmetic replacer mods (Armor, hair, weapon) being broken after the Oct 2024 update. Most of these mods are last updated around Apr 2024. Basically any hair/cloth mod, once you go into the comment section, people would say that its broken, causes black screen, no change in game, etc.

Core Concept: Capcom switched mesh file formats from mesh.231011879 to .mesh. 240423143. All we have to do is convert it, but RE engine modding is less than ideal. I didn't find an automated tool, so we have to go thru blender with the existing blender DD2 mesh importer.

--------------Tools Needed-------------

Blender 3. 6+, installed free from steam. (If you already have mesh modding experience, you probably have blender installed alr, since all fan modding mesh port tools I know are blender based.)

RE Tool, unpacks RE engine .pak files. www.fluffyquack.com/tools/REtool.rar

2 Verions of Blender dd2 mesh importer, star of the show.https://github.com/Feuleur/blender-dd2-tools-suite

-- This might be the hardest part of the tutorial, since you would need to click 3 well-hidden (For people who don't use github) buttons.

--Which is why I created this simple tutorial.

--Complete steps 1-2-3-1, you have to do step 1 again after finishing step 3. This downloads the legacy ver.

--This would give you a current edition of the blender tool, that can export the new capcom mesh file, and a Apr 2024 edition of the tool, that can import the old mod mesh files.

--------------Getting the files that need conversion-------------

5. Go into the folder RE Tools created for you, search for mesh, all the .mesh.23231011879 files are the ones you need to convert.

6. There should be 1 for each of the item your mod covers.

--------------CONVERSIONNNNN-------------

For EACH OF the .mesh. 231011879 files:

1. Open Blender, go to top right, box select everything, press Del key. (Incase of future export mistakes.)

2. Edit, Preference, ADD-Ons, import from disk, install the Apr 2024 ver blender dd2 suite first.

3. File, Import, DD2 model file (.mesh.231011879), select