Thx for the feedback.

Sorry - should have explained beyond the basics.

The animation cas files have been working up until recently and so this is not an export problem. I doubt the problem is to do with the cas files directly. I swapped them for the old working files and they also floated (and yes I did test over different sessions to make sure not was not the normal float effect caused by mounts when the game is first run). Yet these latter files had been working for months. I also grabbed the original modded files again and tried these. Same problem. I find it hard to believe they all indepedently corrupted. A constant of course is the packer but it cannot be that as others have packed the files too and same problem.

My feeling is that it is related to something else that has indirectly affected them - perhaps some change to the animation files (although we have not changed any elephant ones). Vanilla all work fine.

I should have noted it earlier, but one cannot test everything when changes are made; especially when there is no sense to them.

It is a big mystery - but one that needs resolving.