Extracting animations out of the anim files

[Electroely]

I tried extracting an anim file from the game using ktools (to try and add a new part to it), but it seems the animation is messed up:

Is there a way I could extract the animations properly?

Edited June 5, 2017 by Electroely

[Lumina]

I know only krane for extracting animations.

[Pyr0mrcow]

One of life's great mysteries.

If there is a way of extracting these accurately, quite a few people would be interested.
Judging by the amount of people that've been bugging us over the item skins mod.

Edited June 5, 2017 by Pyr0mrcow

[minespatch]

@Instant-Noodles, lil' help?

[Instant-Noodles]

On 2017-6-4 at 10:52 PM, Electroely said:

I tried extracting an anim file from the game using ktools (to try and add a new part to it), but it seems the animation is messed up:

Is there a way I could extract the animations properly?

On 2017-6-5 at 8:51 PM, minespatch said:

@Instant-Noodles, lil' help?

Sorry, but I can't provide much assistance in this matter as I don't have an automated way for fixing animation errors either.  

To get proper animations, you'd likely need to convert the animation files to something other than Spriter SCML files.  This is mainly because the current version of Spriter (v1.4) doesn't natively support free-form deformations, so some animations can't be converted properly.  

KTools actually has a built-in animation fidelity option, so you can use that to check which of the extracted animations will have issues.

krane --check-animation-fidelity <input-dir> <output-dir>

Unfortunately, KTools seems to be the only DS/DST animation decompiler floating around out there.  So, for the moment, you're stuck with manually fixing animations inside Spriter.

EDIT: Here's the KTools animation fidelity output on the terrorbeak animation you posted:

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WARNING: the geometry of animation symbol "shadowcreature2_body_4" in animation "appear" is not fully representable in Spriter. Expect lower animation fidelity. (max matrix distance: 0.737606)
WARNING: the geometry of animation symbol "shadowcreature2_body_1" in animation "atk_down" is not fully representable in Spriter. Expect lower animation fidelity. (max matrix distance: 0.538017)
WARNING: the geometry of animation symbol "shadowcreature2_body_2" in animation "atk_down" is not fully representable in Spriter. Expect lower animation fidelity. (max matrix distance: 0.652349)
WARNING: the geometry of animation symbol "shadowcreature2_body_5" in animation "atk_down" is not fully representable in Spriter. Expect lower animation fidelity. (max matrix distance: 0.788648)
WARNING: the geometry of animation symbol "shadowcreature2_body_8" in animation "atk_down" is not fully representable in Spriter. Expect lower animation fidelity. (max matrix distance: 0.591375)
WARNING: the geometry of animation symbol "shadowcreature2_leg_6" in animation "atk_down" is not fully representable in Spriter. Expect lower animation fidelity. (max matrix distance: 0.55558)
WARNING: the geometry of animation symbol "shadowcreature2_leg_7" in animation "atk_down" is not fully representable in Spriter. Expect lower animation fidelity. (max matrix distance: 0.565067)
WARNING: the geometry of animation symbol "shadowcreature2_body_1" in animation "atk_side" is not fully representable in Spriter. Expect lower animation fidelity. (max matrix distance: 0.532903)
WARNING: the geometry of animation symbol "shadowcreature2_leg_6" in animation "atk_side" is not fully representable in Spriter. Expect lower animation fidelity. (max matrix distance: 0.503377)
WARNING: the geometry of animation symbol "shadowcreature2_leg_7" in animation "atk_side" is not fully representable in Spriter. Expect lower animation fidelity. (max matrix distance: 0.54151)
WARNING: the geometry of animation symbol "shadowcreature2_body_7" in animation "atk_up" is not fully representable in Spriter. Expect lower animation fidelity. (max matrix distance: 0.676948)
WARNING: the geometry of animation symbol "shadowcreature2_body_8" in animation "atk_up" is not fully representable in Spriter. Expect lower animation fidelity. (max matrix distance: 0.778818)
WARNING: the geometry of animation symbol "shadowcreature2_leg_0" in animation "atk_up" is not fully representable in Spriter. Expect lower animation fidelity. (max matrix distance: 0.572834)
WARNING: the geometry of animation symbol "shadowcreature2_leg_3" in animation "atk_up" is not fully representable in Spriter. Expect lower animation fidelity. (max matrix distance: 0.733697)
WARNING: the geometry of animation symbol "shadowcreature2_leg_4" in animation "atk_up" is not fully representable in Spriter. Expect lower animation fidelity. (max matrix distance: 0.820711)
WARNING: the geometry of animation symbol "shadowcreature2_leg_5" in animation "atk_up" is not fully representable in Spriter. Expect lower animation fidelity. (max matrix distance: 0.660204)
WARNING: the geometry of animation symbol "shadowcreature2_leg_6" in animation "atk_up" is not fully representable in Spriter. Expect lower animation fidelity. (max matrix distance: 1.04476)
WARNING: the geometry of animation symbol "shadowcreature2_leg_7" in animation "atk_up" is not fully representable in Spriter. Expect lower animation fidelity. (max matrix distance: 0.849566)
WARNING: the geometry of animation symbol "shadowcreature2_body_4" in animation "disappear" is not fully representable in Spriter. Expect lower animation fidelity. (max matrix distance: 0.737606)
WARNING: the geometry of animation symbol "shadowcreature2_body_1" in animation "taunt" is not fully representable in Spriter. Expect lower animation fidelity. (max matrix distance: 0.65554)

 

 

Edited June 9, 2017 by Instant-Noodles

[minespatch]

5 hours ago, Instant-Noodles said:

EDIT: Here's the KTools animation fidelity output on the terrorbeak animation you posted:

That's a lot of errors.