Posts from Guide on adding a new model, animation, and creature to HoMMV Auto-translated

Good news for everyone interested in exporting models and those who sympathize with them.

Using the asset studio program, you can extract various resources from the M&M X Legacy game, including models from the sixth installment, while preserving the T-pose. Or the A-pose, as in the case of this orc.
The models retain their UV mapping, meaning the textures fit. However, I couldn't immediately extract the rigging and animations. To be honest, I spent about ten minutes on it, so I can't say for sure that it's impossible. I just haven't figured it out properly yet.

But even if a model is exported without rigging, it can still be used, and that's still pretty cool, as this model retains its basic pose. It can be relatively easily re-rigged to a new skeleton.
Or, if you want to be really clever, you can do this: take two models. One from the sixth game, exported using Noesis, with the rigging preserved, and another from M&M X without rigging but in the T-pose. There's an operation where you can transfer the geometry from one model to another if they have the same UV mapping. If you're interested, you can search for more information online. In theory, this could restore the T-pose to a rigged model, and then you could automatically transfer the rigging information to a new skeleton, from the fifth or seventh game. This is all if you're too lazy to rig it manually.

We'd like to give a big thank you to Xuxo for the tip about the asset studio program. He's currently using this program to extract models from another M&M game, namely M&M Dynasty.

Ahem. Finally, a small lyrical digression for those in the know.

Orc warrior from Heroes 6, T-pose 💲💲💲

I did some digging in the resources of Might & Magic X: Legacy.

Found a couple of interesting things. Reskins of the dark elves from the sixth game in the style of their forest counterparts. A kappa cub and a wolf cub. Plus reskins of the rakshasa and kujin from the fifth game.

In a future update with Necromancers, they will add Kaspar's model.

I delved a bit into the models from Dynasty. In general, it won't be easy to adapt animations from Dynasty to the skeleton from Heroes 6/7, and vice versa, attaching animations from Heroes 6/7 to the skeleton from Dynasty will also not be easy. It can be done, but it's quite a tedious process.

I'm not "continuing to work on modding"; I'm just sharing information I learned in my spare time. Maybe it will be useful to someone, and they will create mods.

And now, some new information. I used Asset Studio to explore the M&M Dynasty game that xuxo mentioned. You can extract models, textures, skeletons, and animations from this game. 
It uses some models from the 6th game and some from the 7th. But they are more optimized. For example, the pikeman in Dynasty consists of 3.8k polygons, while in the 6th game, the same pikeman has about six to seven thousand polygons. Overall, this is good. There is no visual difference, but the load is almost twice as low. But sometimes, certain individual elements, like shoulder pads, look a bit angular, and it's still better to use the models from the 6th game for them.
Another key feature of the models from Dynasty is the new animation for them. Sometimes it looks more interesting than the original, sometimes worse, but it's still great for variety. The skeletons of the models from Dynasty and from the 6th/7th games are very similar, but unfortunately, they are not compatible by default. However, if you tinker with them a bit, you can adapt one skeleton to another so that you can use both the animations from the 6th/7th games and the animations from Dynasty for the model.

In addition, you can extract demon models from the 6th game with complete sets of animations from Dynasty. 

And one more thing. In Dynasty, there are unique models for heroes. Crag Hack, Darkstorm, and others have been found. As far as I understand, there is already someone from the Ashan heroes from the 5th game. I haven't figured out exactly who. In a future update with necromancers, they will add a model of Kaspar.