Theoretically, I can do all the files a bit smaller. The only question is how it will look like in the game. Can you verify this, Arcimaestro Anteres, if I send you a link to some of them?

nice, move the Npcs also vertically, along the z axis, (press "Z" and move the mouse) to make them sit better on the chair


The biggest file, is the AM_Music1, of the Morrowind Main Theme.
The Animated Morrowind sound folder, is now 11,3 mb, and the AM_Music1 is 8,5 of them, but I don't know if it can still be reduced. All the other files are acceptable in size.

Great! Congratulations!
What is really remarkable that this is the first (to my knowledge) MW animation mod created in Blender. I was absolutely sure that you are animating in Max.
Could you share some of your secrets? What templates have you used? I do not see weapon/shield bones, as well as "bounding boxes" in anim.nifs (for xanim.nifs you are using so to say not related files). I have also to figure out how you are adding tools (hammer, etc.) as well as solution of the problem of collision with sitting animations. I am doing that in a very clumsy way.

about the tools, we all know that you may make hold an item with the left hand, making it a shield. ANd this trick has been used many times. But I wanted these Npcs would use 2 items at once (like the mortar and pestle, for example) and there was nothing like that in Morrowind mods, in my knowledge. Then I thought a gauntlet or a more discreet bracer with the item attached to, could do the trick and that's all.
The xAnimation.Nif is a file of Morrowind, because Blender doesn't export correctly that file (I have to rename some elemnts of the one exported by Blender, so it is easier to use this one for all the aniamtions).
Here you may find the blender file of the clerk in Seyda Neen

http://rapidshare.com/files/319937575/Writer8.blend.html

I see. Actually I am renaming weapon (right hand) to shield bone and vice versa in x.nif and x.kf files of such animations, than "shields" are in the right hand. Ja, clothes/armor was used as tools.
What about sitting animations and chair collisions? I know only one solution by modifying chair collision structure in chair nifs. L&L like Bip01 repositioning (+300 or so in Z axis) can also do the trick (other solutions like repositioning the bounding box are not working for me for some reasons).

what issue did you exaclty have with the collision?

I did some experiments and ...
Yes, I can reduce AM_Music1 to 3146 kilobytes (if I use PCM encoding with some changes the sampling rate) and down to 2355 kilobytes (if I use OGG encoding) without appreciable loss of quality. This file format WAV remain after the procedure in both cases. But I don `t know whether it is properly played in the game. What a pity that now I can not test it.
The choice is yours Arcimaestro ...

If to place an NPC (e.g. sitting) on a chair (or whatever) with a usual collision structure (RootCollisionNode) there is a slow drift of this character as if this NPC (game engine) searches for the place where there is no collision volume or NPC sits in game in the air above the chair.

You can get around it, but you have to spend alot of time rescaling tables and chairs around the animation....

Oh great, I'd like to test them.




I used a way you disagree with. B) all the sitting animations have also the Idle (I mean the base idle) modified, so that I can place them exaclty where I want in the Construction Set. Otherwise you should place the npcs and testing them again and again in game, hoping that they'll not appear floating above the table.

Howdie!

Object reference "furn_com_r_chair_01" missing in master file
Any ideas to handle that? Thx in advance.
:confused:

OMG, I go away for a few days and come back to this! :drool:

Can't wait to see this ingame. Thanks for sharing this with us! :celebration:

I agree with anything that works. Yours is obviously working and in a very smart way.

There are several known to me solutions:

1. Modify chair nif RootCollisionNode. Works fine for unique chair nifs e.g. throne. But this is definitely not a good generic solution.

2. L&L like: Bip01 +300 in Z-axis while creating animations plus TCL in scripts as well scripting positioning with ?300 in Z-axis. I do not like to use TCL, but +/-300 (or 600, 900) works fine. Good for cut-scenes ? la L&L, I have never tested that with regular NPCs.

3. Raflod (btw he is also from Italy) moves only Bounding Box to ?300- -900 in Z-axis. Works fine for him, I tried without any success.


As far as I understand you have found another, new solution I am curious about.

Awesome I was waiting for this since tread 1 jeje... sadly windows vista craqed on me.... but I?m instaling and powering up at high speed to start a new game with this man! Thanks for creating this

that is just a concept for the Part II. I'll rework the animation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZhTfGD8pOY

Words are beyond my reach, Morrowind never seemed so alive before your efforts here Antares!

Can't wait for part II!!!

a.w.e.s.o.m.e.

Great approach! Keep up that great work. :goodjob:

If i may make a suggestion i'd really like to see some of the slaves/mine workers in the various ore mines (ebony, glass, diamonds, adamant...) hacking ore from the veins instead of just standing around lazily.

Oh, and making king Helseth sit on his throne instead of standing right before it all day would also be nice

Seconded.
Moreover, I saw a praying animation for temple priests in the WIP thread. That'd be great to have in Part II.
I wish I could see sleeping NPCs too.

GREAT WORK.

Anyone is thinking about expanding this mod into all of Vvardenfell (creating new NPCs with these animations in suitable places)?

Didn't RX31 create a praying animation some time back?



The slave harvesting animation looks good; also, I'd second (third?) the idea of a mining animation for ore slaves.

praying and mining are part of my project


that is somthing I wanted to do, but finally people preferred not to touch the original Npcs, to avoid conflits with other mods.

This sounds like a very nice thing indeed, and it's about time something like this was done for Morrowind. I look forward to trying it in game, but I also hope to see what modders will be able to do in the future using these animations, I'm sure that mods which add new NPCs can benefit a lot from them.

Yesterday evening I ran into a bug which I believe may be a mod conflict of some sort.

When I met Granny Varis the sweeping animation worked perfectly. Granny Varis could not, however, walk: she would swing her arms as if she were strutting around, yet in reality she stayed in one place, her feet glued to the ground.

I had the Animation Kit installed, so I tried its animation fix function. Unfortunately, that didn't solve the problem.

A few minutes ago, I tried uninstalling the Animation Kit, and then reinstalling Animated Morrowind. This did not solve the problem either.

My warnings.txt file is filled with NiAnimation errors:



Something similar happened when Children of Morrowind 2 first came out. See this thread: http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=868016&st=80. Might I have run into a similar problem?

Cheers,

Swiveller

[Edit/Addition]

Reinstalling the animation kit and using the animation fix function (with administrator privileges) solved the problem.

All the animations work fine for me, and I have the Anim Kit. I ran "Fix Animations" before even loading the game up to avoid the usual Bip errors.

I remember that the Anim Kit doesn't fix animations that are stored in a BSA, but that's not a problem here.
Did you also try pressing "Rerun Setup" ?
If something gets really messed up, or some errors just won't go away, you can try pressing the Rerun Setup button as well. Be aware that this will restore all your mod settings to the default. You may want to back up your AnimModList.xml file before doing this. *from the AnimKit readme*

Edit: You fixed it faster than I could reply. good work!