The past few days I’ve been scouring AoE3 discord servers and old forum posts trying to find a way to export the game’s .gr2 files, edit them in either Blender or 3DS Max, and import them back into the game. Every method I have tried however, whether that is using .gr2 plugins for Blender/Max, converting the files using grnreader98, or ripping the model using Granny Viewer and GLXtractor has not produced anything that the game can recognise, does anyone know of any methods that work with Definitive Edition?
There’s an online converter. Ask Kevsoft on Discord and he can get you access.
I also found a Noesis plugin that converts gr2 to fbx so you could look into that too.
Thank you for replying! I’ll be sure to ask Kevsoft for help, and if that doesn’t work I’ll give Noesis a go.
Dablive has a converter that works flawlessly but he only speaks chinese and contacting him is a tad bit tricky.
Thank you for the reply! The name Dablive sounds familiar, I believe I tried following one of his guides but I didn’t get very far… a converter sounds really useful though. Do you know if he can only be reached through the aoebbs forums?
You can find dablive on aoebbs forums.
You might need this DLL file—just replace the granny2.dll in the same folder as grnreader98.exe, and you’ll be able to extract the models from the Definitive Edition.
DLL download:决定版gr2提取（granny2.dll）