Update! - Animated Bowstring, War Wagon and Decapitations Animations Pack

[Theodotos I]

Does anyone have a handgun animation for infantry? I'm in the market for one.

[klotim]

Hello guys i have some problems with Banzai!s animation pack. i have Tested this on stainless_steel 6.2
and vanila. but it wont work. i have posted this on Banzai!s. But im too Desperate :O I will be very Thank full.




1. Copy-paste the animations/animations/ folder contents into your M2TW animations
folder. DONE
2. Copy-paste the animations/descr_skeletons.txt contents into your mod folder. DONE
3. Check you have:
[util]
no_animdb = true
set in your preferences.DONE
4. Delete /animations/pack.idx, pack.dat, skeletons.idx, skeletons.dat for the
animations to rebuild on next game startup. DONE
5. You can begin using the animations now (do so by changing the battle_models unit
skeleton entries as needed) huh? he mean those from the example folder? ok look. one example:
The decap animation:
dismounted_gothic_knights_decap_lod0.ms3d converted to dismounted_gothic_knights_decap_lod0.mesh
DONE
put the mesh file in this folder unit_models/animtesting
DONE

next im in the battle_models.modeldb file with wordpad.
searched for dismounted_gothic_knights
DONE

I copied over those with the new text :
25 dismounted_gothic_knights
1 1
65 unit_models/animtesting/dismounted_gothic_knights_decap_lod0.mesh 6400
1
4 merc
77 unit_models/_Units/LN_Gothic_RN_Plate/textures/LN_gothic_RN_plate_hre.texture
80 unit_models/_Units/LN_Gothic_RN_Plate/textures/LN_gothic_RN_plate_normal.texture
53 unit_sprites/hre_Dismounted_Gothic_Knights_sprite.spr
1
4 merc
56 unit_models/AttachmentSets/Final Heater_hre_diff.texture
56 unit_models/AttachmentSets/Final Heater_hre_norm.texture 0
1
4 None
21 MTW2_Slow_2HSwordsman 0
1
24 MTW2_2HSwordsman_Primary 0
16 -0.090000004 0 0 -0.34999999 0.80000001 0.60000002
DONE

Open export_descr_unit DONE
Searched for Ulster Swordsmen DONE

The new text:
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type Ulster Swordsmen
dictionary Ulster_Swordsmen ; Ulster Swordsmen, up
category infantry
class heavy
voice_type Heavy
accent French
banner faction main_infantry
banner holy crusade
soldier armored_swordsman_bigsword_decap, 48, 0, 12.0 ;, 0.6
officer gauldrako
mount_effect horse +2, camel +2 ;;tear off the limbs
attributes free_upkeep_unit, mercenary_unit, sea_faring, hide_forest, very_hardy, can_withdraw, frighten_mounted, frighten_foot, command
;formation 0.4, 0, 2.4, 2.4, 4, square
formation 2.4, 2.4, 2.4, 2.4, 5, square
stat_health 1, 0
stat_pri 24, 96, no, 0, 0, melee, melee_blade, slashing, sword, 0, 1
stat_pri_attr ap
stat_sec 0, 0, no, 0, 0, no, melee_simple, blunt, none, 0, 1
stat_sec_attr no
stat_pri_armour 9, 16, 15, metal
stat_sec_armour 0, 0, flesh
stat_heat 0 ; 6
stat_ground 0, 0, 0, 0 ; 1, -1, 2, 1
stat_mental 18, impetuous, trained
stat_charge_dist 6
stat_fire_delay 0
stat_food 60, 300
stat_cost 1, 2100, 350, 90, 70, 525, 4, 170
armour_ug_levels 1, 2, 3 ; 2, 3
armour_ug_models armored_swordsman_bigsword_decap, dismounted_gothic_knights, f_ambacti
ownership all ; denmark, norway
era 2 france, spain
recruit_priority_offset 0 ; 10

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Copied over with the new text.
DONE.


But The game still crashes why?
please help =))
maybe this will help lot of other peoples too =)

[Squid]

Moved this into the thread for the resource, as it doesn't need a thread of its own.

[klotim]

is the thread dead ?

[JuL14n]

is the thread dead ?

Hmm, it looks pretty alive to me

But the creator is dead... Banned.. Don't know why?

Well, to your problem, I guess you haven't (re/)moved the main animation files?

Create a folder named backup in your m2tw folder,
go to "*m2tw-folder*\data\animations\" move the both packs & and skeletons to the backup-folder.

if it still ctds take a look in the system log, if it says that it's an error in "descr_skeleton" one/some of the files is missing, then just unpack the animations again, reinstall v11 and overwrite with v12


Sends a pm just in case that you have forgot this.

[vlad]

hi - can i use this animation and wagon forts in mongolo-tatars invasin mod ? For nation Bohemia and Moravia (for slavic czesh husites) ???

[JuL14n]

hi - can i use this animation and wagon forts in mongolo-tatars invasin mod ? For nation Bohemia and Moravia (for slavic czesh husites) ???

As he is banned I don't think he will answer

But his answer would be, as he said to many others: Yes you can! Just put him in the credits.

btw, I totally fell in love with your mod for BI! Great work! Even if it was some years ago..

[Stephan]

edit: solved

[Kovas]

Wow! The decapitations are great!

[Ozzmosis]

Not to be nosy, but, what actually happened to Banzai? I heard some people saying they wouldn't include his animations in a mod due to something they "wouldn't disclose". This only inflates my curiosity and I would like to know why this guy, who obviously has great talent in animating, has been banned and shunned?

[Louis Lux]

He used a script from another mod without properly asking for permission, and he had already done something similar so the penalty was harsher.

Question: Can I visualize the animation on a 3D modeler software? Which file should I merge with the model?

[SigniferOne]

You need to merge the animation in Milkshape, using KnightErrant's anim utils.

[Louis Lux]

I'm gonna need more than that

I'm using 3Dsmax but that shouldn't be a problem. Normally what I do is use animmerge to merge the model with the animation and open it in 3Dsmax.

Is there an extra step I should take to view the animation?

[kela]

Hi, guys, please give me working thread for rome_animationspack_v12.7z, the old is dead.

[mongrel]

Attachment 76303

here you are

[kela]

Thank you very much!

[SigniferOne]

Could someone reupload v11 as well? That's the more important, base, version.

[Surgeon]

Okay, I've got a problem. I'm trying to merge the shortbow skeleton with a .ms3d file, but it's giving me an error about unpack requiring a string argument or something along those lines. Basically what this seems to mean is that I have to remove the old skeleton in the .ms3d file first, which apparently means I'll have to re-rig the entire model. Problem is, I've previously used the crossbow skeleton from the same pack and I have no recollection whatsoever of having to reassign the entire model to the joints. It has been a while ago but I'm pretty sure I somehow managed to merge the model with the skeleton without actually clearing any joint data. Anybody know if this can be done or am I imagining things?

[JuL14n]

Okay, I've got a problem. I'm trying to merge the shortbow skeleton with a .ms3d file, but it's giving me an error about unpack requiring a string argument or something along those lines. Basically what this seems to mean is that I have to remove the old skeleton in the .ms3d file first, which apparently means I'll have to re-rig the entire model. Problem is, I've previously used the crossbow skeleton from the same pack and I have no recollection whatsoever of having to reassign the entire model to the joints. It has been a while ago but I'm pretty sure I somehow managed to merge the model with the skeleton without actually clearing any joint data. Anybody know if this can be done or am I imagining things?

Well how did you merge?

At least goat&goal merges the both skeletons into each others without erasing any joint data.
If you are a stubborn bastard you can merge them with milkshape or 3ds which results in the
need to remove the old skeleton and reassign every bloody joint to the new one.

And afaik GOM can't merge any extra skeleton parts without problems.

[Surgeon]

I used the .ms3d merge with external skeleton option in the GOAT toolbox. It's strange because I don't remember having this kind of problem before. Also, when I try to "kit-bash" parts of models onto other models it gives me the same error and the only way I've been able to go around it is by deleting the skeleton in one of the files. Of course this isn't so bad because I only need to re-rig the one sword/helmet/whatever, but this time the entire model is unrigged.