Struggling to set up Krane

[pickleplayer]

I finally decided to try out Krane. All I wanted to do was slightly alter one of the FX animations, but I have no idea what I am doing. I can't even get it working.

So I downloaded  Microsoft's Visual C++ 2013 using the provided link, and I know I got the right version. I installed CMake and ImageMagick and carefully followed all of the instillation steps on the README page. There aren't even that many steps to follow but I still somehow managed to mess it up because all I got out of CMake was errors.

After looking up an example of someone who had the same errors of me, I found out that apparently I didn't even need to do any of that previous stuff anyways?? Since I had Windows, I could apparently just download the precompiled binaries.

So I have that, but... What do I do with this?? Am I supposed to just run krane.exe??

When I do, the box pops up and then just insta-closes before any words can show up. I'm guessing that's not supposed to happen but I don't know, Maybe I'm supposed to put some animation files somewhere first?

I definitely have the right visual studio installed. uninstalled and re-installed multiple times, in fact. But I just have no idea what I'm doing wrong. I'd give screenshots but really there is nothing to see because the box closes so fast there is not time for anything to show up on it.

Oh god I am a train-wreck. It's like that time I tried to set up a dedicated DST server all over again.

[Mobbstar]

Open the command prompt, "drag in" the programme, then "drag in" the parameter (in this case, the source and destination folders). It should look somewhat like this:

D:\programs\krane.exe "C:\users\pickly\Desktop\New Folder" "C:\users\pickly\Desktop\New Folder(2)"

[pickleplayer]

32 minutes ago, Mobbstar said:

Open the command prompt, "drag in" the programme, then "drag in" the parameter (in this case, the source and destination folders). It should look somewhat like this:

D:\programs\krane.exe "C:\users\pickly\Desktop\New Folder" "C:\users\pickly\Desktop\New Folder(2)"

 

Ohhhhhhhh, cool, okay! It worked. I didn't realize those commands in the readme were for the actual command line.

I would have never figured that out on my own, thank you.

Edited April 19, 2016 by pickleplayer

[KingZed]

create a new bat，write the following content ：

@echo off
e:
cd ktools
krane.exe e:/input e:/output
exit