Also of note, some equipment cannot be obtained legitimately. Note that some equipment is not buyable and can only be obtained through special methods. I'm sure they're signed shorts as all three games tile textures when necessary and I think they're interleaved with the data above the vertex block like the faces, but I can't figure out how to 'see' and search for them as I eventually did with the faces. Below is the list of equipment in Front Mission 4. It will be interesting to see how faces and UVs are handled when even a simple cube has 12 extra vertices for some reason.Īs of now, I'm at a total loss as to how to find the UVs for FM4 and FMO. We try out the PlayStation remake of the classic mech strategy game, and have new details on forthcoming Front. I also poked around Front Mission 5 recently and the way it stores vertices for mechs and vehicles seems pretty odd- models are broken into numerous twenty-vert blocks that contain multiple, unavoidable duplicate vertices. New Front Mission 1st, Front Mission History, and Front Mission 4 information. The presentation is lackluster, the interface is messy and cumbersome to use, and the story has pacing and character development problems. Front Mission 4 treads much the same territory as its brethren, introducing a new gameplay twist in the Link System and keeping lots and lots of mech customization options. A lot of features common to Front Mission are noticeably missing, such as the Arena, and the game as a whole feels rushed. While it sounds obvious, seeing this in action was a bit of a revelation for me. Front Mission 4 is a respectable entry in the series, but it leaves a lot to be desired.

Though I've yet to find the UVs, I have since found the face format of vehicles within Front Mission 4 and, in doing so, realized why there are multiple vertex and face formats- as the number of vertices grows, so do the number of bytes necessary to represent them and the faces they form.

Front mission 4