Wolf Form - Slow Animation (running forward)

[doacleric]

Looks like the entire bottom half of the model doesn't animate.

Makes you wonder what else we've been looking at incorrectly all these years...

[renordw]

This needs to be fixed, and put in the proper patch files. I remember when EQ first launched, the wolf form was not broken. Then somewhere before Kunark, it started looking slowmo and I quit my druid

[renordw]

I also changed all the combat and damage animations of the wolf to 50. 20 seemed too fast, 50 is perfect. I'm the happiest ranger ever!

[renordw]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p3d...ature=youtu.be

[Zheta]

Any fix for the super slow Gnome sitting animation?

Also, the Wolf/Iksar fixes are amazing, thanks!

[Zaela]

Originally Posted by Zheta [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Any fix for the super slow Gnome sitting animation?

Maybe I'll find some time and put together a tool to muck with and/or swap out animations for arbitrary models... bit busy lately though.

Although, do gnomes have a unique sitting animation? Worth noting that classic player race models share a lot of their animations. There's really only four complete sets of animations -- Wood Elf male, Wood Elf female, Ogre female, and Iksar male. Other races might have one or two unique animations of their own, but they all fall back to one of the four main sets. I do see that gnomes have one unique animation, L03... I think that might in fact be for sit/stand (standing is just sitting in reverse), now that I think of it.

Originally Posted by Muggens [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Is it possible to make characters with Safefall training Not to go into the flopping dive animation when jumping off high places? Maybe instead just keep the encrouched jump animation for a longer time?

Would need to inject custom code into whatever client routine triggers that animation during falling; it could theoretically be done, but it's outside of my purview and probably not worth the effort for the devs... Swapping out the falling animation for another animation entirely, for everyone in all situations would be doable with simple datafile edits, but making it hold the crouching position rather than playing the crouch animation over and over probably wouldn't be doable since some extra state-changing stuff would be needed there, which again would need injected code.

Originally Posted by Muggens [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Is it possible to make miniturized and slicker feet for halfling hobbits, making em even hotter?

Could be done. Probably would need to export the model data from EQ's custom format into something a 3D modelling tool like Blender understands, tweak it, and then import it back into EQ's custom format. EQ's model format is pretty well understood now, so it would be reasonable easy to make a tool to do that. I'm no 3D modeling person, though...

Alternatively it might be easier to find the vertices at the end of the feet in the EQ model data and tweak some numbers to make them closer to the body and whatnot. Would take little coding, but lot of tedious trial-and-error to find the vertices and good numbers for them, though.

[Muggens]

Originally Posted by Zaela [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Could be done. Probably would need to export the model data from EQ's custom format into something a 3D modelling tool like Blender understands, tweak it, and then import it back into EQ's custom format. EQ's model format is pretty well understood now, so it would be reasonable easy to make a tool to do that. I'm no 3D modeling person, though...

Alternatively it might be easier to find the vertices at the end of the feet in the EQ model data and tweak some numbers to make them closer to the body and whatnot. Would take little coding, but lot of tedious trial-and-error to find the vertices and good numbers for them, though.

Thanks! Who's into 3d modelling? Free muffins for life if you can do it.

[Muggens]

Very nice work! I hate the slow running wolf animation so this was great to find.
I've been thinking of small stuff that could be introduced as custom content but I guess most of it can be done like this.

One: Is it possible to make characters with Safefall training Not to go into the flopping dive animation when jumping off high places? Maybe instead just keep the encrouched jump animation for a longer time? It would be really cool.

Two: Is it possible to make miniturized and slicker feet for halfling hobbits, making em even hotter?

[Muggens]

Heres something I am curious about: Are you able to make the female character models "relax their arms" ?
as Ive noticed Human, Dark elf, Erudite, High Elf and perhaps more female character models always have their arms in a ready position, not "dropping" them by their side, relaxed like the male char models. Id be cool to see them relaxed yeah

[Zaela]

/rezz

In Iksar-2HS-animation-related news... Someone asked me about my "fix" earlier today, and I decided to set up a test server on my new machine and poke around a bit. And I stumbled onto a real fix.

And it is dumb.

I made a tool back in April on page 2 of this thread to allow replacing any iksar animation with any other iksar animation. The 2HS animation -- which we've established has perfectly fine animation data, the client just fucks up while loading it -- is C03. As it turns out, if you replace C03 with itself (that is, replace C03 with C03)... it gets fixed. What really happens is that the animation data gets moved from the middle of the datafile to the end of the datafile. The position of animation data is not supposed to matter. But, there you go!

The iksar archery animation also has a similar but smaller problem (the feet displace oddly instead of animating as they should) which can also be fixed by replacing C09 with C09.

It's possible that the way the client was corrupting these animations is somehow related to their position in the file, and that different animations will be corrupted now. But I looked over all the non-social iksar male animations, and they seem to be fine with the fixes to C03 and C09 applied. A few other models are defined in the same datafile -- looks like iksar female, barbarians, and a few NPC models -- but I'm too lazy to look at all of those right now.

In any case, hoping a few interested people will try it out and report any problems. If you've used any of my tools to replace your iksar 2HS animation already you should have a "global4_chr.zae" file in your eq folder; make a copy of that and rename it to "global4_chr.s3d", replacing the existing s3d to restore the original animation data before applying the new fix.

I'll probably whip up a one-click fix tool sometime this week if no other animations get obviously fucked up by fixing the iksar ones.