UbiSoft Pod formats

This extension allows you to import, modify, and export files from UbiSoft's Pod ("Planet of Death") racing game.

Pod was one of the first games utilizing the 3dfx Glide API in 1997, and the extension maps the old-school assets to a modern Blender representation, including:

• Race track models, texture and mesh animations, physical materials and obstacles, world and local lighting, sound speakers, repair pits, checkpoints, starting gates, record times, game event scripting, opponent drive paths and opponent attack behavior.
• Race car models and their damaged sections, LoD meshes, physical statistics, in-game stats, and engine sounds.
• Recorded ghost files (which can be used to generate opponent paths from).
• Images stored in image container files, properly converting palettized and 16-bit formats.
• Sounds stored in sound container files, including all resources and events like effects or motor audio curves.
• CDPatcher-compatible installation files to distribute new game content created in Blender.

All format versions are supported, including those from initial OEM distributions, shareware builds, and the unreleased leaked Arcade machine successor.

More information can be found on the project's wiki which describes the imported data in detail, how to modify it, and what to pay attention to when exporting new game content.