Animations

[SigniferOne]

Just briefly, yes the old Verci script works halfway. It can extract, if you replace the title string above with the RTW version, and the animations are half-way ok, but still not 100% good. Caliban wrote a post somewhere here that the reason is that in M2 bones are weighted, whereas in RTW they weren't.


Caliban, is it a secure fact that once the animations are extracted and work properly, they don't have to be put back into the packed files again, and work using that anim_db switch you once posted?

[KnightErrant]

The bones section at the top of the .dat file has
the idle pose of the standard skeleton in the first three
floats after the null terminated ASCII string. There's 19
floats in each data section between the bone strings,
3 are the idle pose offsets, 3 probably 0.0 rotations, and
who knows for the remaining 13 floats.

Edit: Sorry, not the first three. Skip the first float after the
bone string, then the next three floats are the idle pose offsets.

[alpaca]

KE: Are you talking about the skeletons.dat? I was looking at the pack.dat
I got the impression we could still extract the skeletons with xidx?

Edit: By the way, don't forget ICQ XD

[KnightErrant]

Oops, my mistake, wrong .dat.

Edit: What does ICQ XD mean?

[alpaca]

Well I don't really know how the skeletons work at any rate.
Do they just link the bones in the .cas/.mesh files to the anims?

[KnightErrant]

Don't know, the only .cas files I've worked through are the
_idle ones in animations/engine and they're short.
They just have the idle pose for rigging the skeletons.
I was digging for where the human animations were.

[GrumpyOldMan]

Hi KE et al

Don't know, the only .cas files I've worked through are the
_idle ones in animations/engine and they're short.
They just have the idle pose for rigging the skeletons.
I was digging for where the human animations were.

I've just about finished the CAS figure to Mikshape converter, and I've already got code to convert m2tw animations to Milkshape, including the quaternion to euler changes. It shouldn't take too long (famous last words?) to do the re-convert.

The main issue is that the way the figure cas' are set up it's easier to convert to Milkshape ascii.

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan