Finally, an I/O for the GTA Stories games, and more!

BLeeds is an IO for Blender, with scripts designed around the Leeds Engine file formats(Stories, Chinatown Wars, Manhunt 2). It is a work-in-progress reverse engineering of R* Leeds file formats.

Supported Formats

The following is a list of file formats that are currently supported by the addon

File Types

• Model files (.mdl)*
  • Import
  • Export *
• Texture Files (.chk, .xtx, .tex)*
  • Import
  • Export
• Collision files (.col2)*
  • Import
  • Export *
• Map files (.wrld, .wbl, .bsp)*
  • Import
  • Export *
• Animation files (.anim)*
  • Import
  • Export

• all of the above are currently experimental, meaning not all files have been tested yet.

How to use

1. Download the addon zip file from the latest master branch
2. Import the downloaded .zip file by selecting it from (User) Preferences/Addons/Install from File
3. Set the addon "BLeeds" to enabled
4. Import files from Import tab, export files from the Export tab

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! If you have suggestions, bug reports, or want to contribute code, please check out the Contributing Guidelines.

Documentation

For documentation, visit the Wiki.

License

This project is licensed under the GPL 3.0 License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Acknowledgments

• Special thanks to the Blender community and contributors, for their open-source efforts.
• The GTA modding community, for the inspiration years ago.
• The GTA Mods Wiki & GTAModding Wiki(RIP)for being a huge considerate help in figuring things, such as data structures, out.
• Daniil Sayanov, for his great help, knowledge in R* Leeds formats, as well as inspiration & motivation.
• Last, but not least, The_Hero(aap) for their incredible knowledge and previous Leeds reverse engineering efforts. He has been invaluable to the community.