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Export animation blocks as X, Y, Z + rotation?
james:
Hi Leo! I sent you an email but was unsure if it was the correct address, so posting here seems better.
I'm currently working with a HL1 mod based on Resident Evil and your tool is great. However, the ability to export the animations out into a format I can then convert to HL .smd animations would be really, really useful.
I was thinking perhaps if it just dumped out the current animation's bone index, bone pos (x, y, z) and bone rotation (x, y, z) then I could write my own script to convert it to .smd animation. For this to work I would also need to know the pivot position of each part of the model too. HL's format for animations is in plain text like this:
boneIndex Xpos Ypos Zpos Xrot Yrot Zrot
Any help you could provide would be much appreciated. Thanks!
james:
I tried looking into this myself and wrote a quick tool for reading .EDR and .EMR files. I had no problem extracting some of the info from the EDD (I looked at ResidentEvilArtist's .pdf to try and understand the file format) but I cannot seem to figure out the .EMR format. I believe this is where the animation info stored (all the angles of each bone for each frame).
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated! Either with a description of RE2's .emr so I can extract the animation info and convert it to .smd myself, or if you were kind enough to add support to this to RE2MV.
For compensation, I noticed that you're using MediaFire and other websites for uploading files. I can offer you a place to upload your files. I run a website where we host mods of HL but it's no problem to set up a space to host your files too, so people don't accidentally download that Download Manager or anything.
Leo2236:
Sorry for the late reply @james, I'll try to do something about your request as soon as I can, most likely I'll add an option to RE2MV that would allow to export selected animations to .TXT so then you could use it as you want.
james:
That sounds great Leo, thanks for the reply! I would be glad to give some feedback to you if you implement this. :)
tugaevil15:
Cool tool. to bad that the RE2MV can not export animation to editor in other 3D app. I hope in the future that support.
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