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The Res-Q-Center is ready - Okay, yes, shame on me, I forgot to put two more round 1x1 studs on the heli pad. In the background you can see the gas station, I'm still waiting for some parts to reach me.

Hmmm, last post was over 2 years ago, whoops.. A lot has happened over that time, I moved houses, twice, I changed jobs, thrice, I've been doing contract work, and I've released a few games. All while still developing and prototyping for racers on and off. So let me get the first bit of cool news out of the way, I recently released a little arcade game for Halloween, Papa's Grave Quest! https://papabrickolini.itch.io/papas-grave-quest It was developed in 72 hrs, just in time for Halloween. And features a version of my kart physics to be used in RR. So go check that out right now and play! And be sure to leave feedback and rate it on itch.io. Now what about RR? Well lets see. First off while I haven't posted here in >2 years, I do however discuss and post updates on our Discord! https://discord.gg/TT5FD5q So if you're excited for racers, definitely join our community. Lately in development I've been working on visuals and recreating the Test Track. Recently created a new minifigure rig and got some renders. I asked the community how they felt on having impossible poses on figures "shoulders out of sockets etc" Cape physics. https://streamable.com/bbdaum A ton of other stuff that has happened, but in short, RR is still being developed actively, we got a community growing and some cool stuff is planned. So again, if you want live updates and participate in game night, join our Discord. https://discord.gg/TT5FD5q ?

Someone sent me a PM today asking if I had gotten the models for the minifigs. These models have now been extracted, although the wdb ripper is not updated to reflect it. I wanted to get this implemented into the extractor, but I honestly haven't had time. Instead, I found a messy way to get the models out, so I have them for anyone that wants them. Although most people already have minifig models, these are the original ones. Make sure to read the README file. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ygssmf0lwwrey2c/extra_li_models.zip?dl=0

So it turns out that in addition to the random gifs extracted to the gif folder, there are also models that don't belong in the folder hierarchy, as in they are not indexed in the table at the beginning of the wdb. I have a feeling that this is because these models are loaded when the game first boots up and are always loaded into memory, whereas non-essential models are loaded based on what part of the game you are on. I think these models are the minifig models for the game. As with the other models, the extractor has had trouble extracting them, but there is definitely model data there. If I can get around to it this week I will try to update this tool with minifig support added. Here is a list of all the models not found in the wdb table that weren't extracted or even acknowledged before, in case anyone is interested:

So I know it's been a long time, but I have gotten around to figuring out how to extract most of the other models in the WDB. I had to overhaul the entire old extractor, but it is working well after a long time of hacking away at it. The project is still on github, so here is the link to the source project: https://github.com/LiamBrandt/WDBRipper But most people will probably just want the exe, in which case here is the link to the direct download: https://github.com/LiamBrandt/WDBRipper/releases/download/v0.2.0/wdb-ripper-v.0.2.0-binary.zip I found the hospital (medcenter) and the race track, and a bunch of the models that were previously missing. The tool extracts 451 out of the 592 models, whereas the old one only did around 300. I have a feeling that with some more effort the rest of the models could be figured out, but most of them seem unimportant, and a bunch don't even have model data in them, just weird numbers that I don't know what they do.