Blender Plugin How to Use

Cobra™ Tools for Blender

"Life Modding finds a way."

A toolset for blender allowing the import and export of models, textures and animations from Planet Zoo®, Jurassic World Evolution™ and Jurassic World Evolution 2™.

Installation

• Install one of the supported Blender versions: 3.2+
• Download the latest source of the plugin here.
• To install the plugin with the addon installer in Blender, click Edit > Preferences > Add-ons > Install... and select the ZIP you just downloaded. Remember to activate the plugin.
• OPTIONAL - If you want to import manis animations (experimental and WIP), you need to install a package into blender's bundled python.

  • Open a command prompt (not power shell) with admin rights in the following folder:

    C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 3.6\3.6\python\bin (your blender version may vary, of course)

  • In that prompt, run the following command:

    python.exe -m pip install bitarray-hardbyte

  • The console should then look like this:

How To Use

Importing Models

• File > Import > Cobra Model (.MS2).

Exporting Models

• File > Export > Cobra Model (.MS2).
• Select the source model, the exported model will be created in a subfolder called export.
• Make sure that all models are part of a LOD collection.

Animations

• banis: can be imported to some extent, not accurately, and painfully slow, no export
• manis: full support for uncompressed, compressed only imports every 32nd key frame

Known Limitations

• No shader or material edits with blender.