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obesebear
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You're the best, Borde.
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genesis063
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Hey guys thanks for coming out with a new release however I have been waiting for hours and it still wont download.
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Borde
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You mean the new version of Kimera genesis063? The link seems to work fine on my end.
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Kaldarasha
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Is it possible add a function to set separately the power of the four lights? It would be also cool thing, if I could add some kind of a shine/gloss/reflection status to a color and be able to bake the reflection on the model in the end. So I could create a precalculated but static metallic effect. You also mentioned ambient occlusion for vertex colors in the past, is it possible to implement it?
I have seen something similar in Blender, but I can't perfectly convert a piece of a model with Bitrun without to destroy the vertex colors. So the other option for me would be a a 3ds file exporter for Kimera.
By the way the UV texture orientation is flipped along the y-axis when I directly import a 3ds file into Kimera. There is also a problem when a model has many textures applied, Kimera starts to acting slow and then it usually crashes.
The last thing I would like to have is a manual merge for pieces, so I could add a new piece as a group in the p-editor. Because the automatic merge goes sometimes crazy and destroys the mesh.
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Highly needed is a way to copy a frame from one animation to another. There are many animations which end in the idle animation or are connected with each other in one way or another. It would be a big help for new animations.
It would be also helpful to force Kimera to load an unfitting animation, so I could add bones to Sephiroth to animate his coat without recreating all his animations.
Maybe it is a good idea to let Kimera add bones and then let it convert all matching animation with the new bone set up? :-\
I guess that's all of my current wish list for Christmas.
I have seen something similar in Blender, but I can't perfectly convert a piece of a model with Bitrun without to destroy the vertex colors. So the other option for me would be a a 3ds file exporter for Kimera.
By the way the UV texture orientation is flipped along the y-axis when I directly import a 3ds file into Kimera. There is also a problem when a model has many textures applied, Kimera starts to acting slow and then it usually crashes.
The last thing I would like to have is a manual merge for pieces, so I could add a new piece as a group in the p-editor. Because the automatic merge goes sometimes crazy and destroys the mesh.
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Highly needed is a way to copy a frame from one animation to another. There are many animations which end in the idle animation or are connected with each other in one way or another. It would be a big help for new animations.
It would be also helpful to force Kimera to load an unfitting animation, so I could add bones to Sephiroth to animate his coat without recreating all his animations.
Maybe it is a good idea to let Kimera add bones and then let it convert all matching animation with the new bone set up? :-\
I guess that's all of my current wish list for Christmas.
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Borde
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Unfortunately, I can't make any promise about the future of this program Kaldarasha. There are lot's of things I'd like to do, but I'm not sure I'll be able to.
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Kaldarasha
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No problem. I only mentioned many things to show you what is needed at the moment, so may be some of them are easy to implement for you.
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Leet
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Nice job borde......ill start using this version. In the last three months ive spent a huge amount of hours in kimera importing so a new version is always nice. Thanks for your continued commitment to this program. 
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WolfMan
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I can rotate zoom and move but as soon as I touch a piece to change this happens and kimera closes. My computer isn't the strongest but it runs Photoshop cs6 and blender like a champ. Any ideas?? THIS HAPPENS WITH ALL MODELS
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genesis063
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It's weird my old computer that has the better operating system won't start downloading things anymore. I'll have to try on my laptop because for some reason it works sometimes I'll keep you guys posted.
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quantumpencil
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Does anyone happen to have a working copy of this? I've recently gotten to the point in my mod where I feel I'm ready to start working on models for some new enemies I've created, but I can't finding a working download for this.
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
Best,
QP
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
Best,
QP
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genesis063
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Not sure if it still saved my progress in the DA file as it did not copy over to the file I was editing. I hope it did otherwise that is 20 frames of work out the window.
Note: Windows 8.1 does not fully support this tool. I tested having all the files in the folder and did an edit. None of the animations saved at all. If anyone knows a way around please let us know. Otherwise only use on windows 7 on another computer or virtualbox.
Note: Windows 8.1 does not fully support this tool. I tested having all the files in the folder and did an edit. None of the animations saved at all. If anyone knows a way around please let us know. Otherwise only use on windows 7 on another computer or virtualbox.
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obesebear
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There's an option in the upper right that reads "save anims. pack" If you want to save to a **da file or .a file, you need to click that. Clicking save model will only save the bone structure and mesh alignment
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genesis063
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I found it after opening it again which I was sure it wasn't there before. Well it is now and can work with it now.
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meesbaker
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Hi I have a few questions on animations. Fortunately this great tool can read and play them but there is some confusion to me about animation IDs.
There seem to be 3 values: The amount of animations found in the *da file, the amount of animations showing up in kimera(notably less) and the animation ID(mostly higher than number of animations)
I just dont get how those fit together. First of all why are there so many animations in the da file. Secondly, why does the ID of the animation with the highest ID appear in the aa file. For example Sephiroth's highest ID is animation 30. This order seems to rely on some table telling which animation like throw or attack resembles which ID. So Sephiroth lacks a lot of them as he has no near death for instance, his animation IDs go 0,2(1 missing)
Now it would make sense if the aa file carried the amount of animations like on psx. But that would be notably less than the highest animation ID because there are many animations missing. So why are those numbers identical? If I'd want to duplicate one of sephs animations to go in spot 1 so near death plays this Id have no idea where to put in the da file.
First of all the ID/amount confusion and also the fact that there are so much more animations in the da than kimera shows up. I dont get it.
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Maybe I should add what I am trying to do. I overwrite sephiroth's *ba file with Cloud's file so he gets all his anmiation scripts and will actually play animations on being hit, near-death, throw item and so on. Of course those scripts will reference animations that do not exist in sephiroth's *da file so ingame they will look messy. So what I want to do is actually enter those animations in the *da file so that the script from Cloud's *ba file will actually play the animation that I want in that certain spot.
As an example, Sephiroth has no animation for taking damage. With his own ba file he will just do nothing when hit, with Cloud's he will shortly disappear so that script works and tries to play a certain animation from the da file which is however not there. How hard can it be to just copy Seph's parry animation and paste it in the da file where the script expects his animation for taking damage. To do this however I have to understand how I can locate certain animations in the da file and for that I must know why it has so many animations how the IDs relate to that and so on....
There seem to be 3 values: The amount of animations found in the *da file, the amount of animations showing up in kimera(notably less) and the animation ID(mostly higher than number of animations)
I just dont get how those fit together. First of all why are there so many animations in the da file. Secondly, why does the ID of the animation with the highest ID appear in the aa file. For example Sephiroth's highest ID is animation 30. This order seems to rely on some table telling which animation like throw or attack resembles which ID. So Sephiroth lacks a lot of them as he has no near death for instance, his animation IDs go 0,2(1 missing)
Now it would make sense if the aa file carried the amount of animations like on psx. But that would be notably less than the highest animation ID because there are many animations missing. So why are those numbers identical? If I'd want to duplicate one of sephs animations to go in spot 1 so near death plays this Id have no idea where to put in the da file.
First of all the ID/amount confusion and also the fact that there are so much more animations in the da than kimera shows up. I dont get it.
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Maybe I should add what I am trying to do. I overwrite sephiroth's *ba file with Cloud's file so he gets all his anmiation scripts and will actually play animations on being hit, near-death, throw item and so on. Of course those scripts will reference animations that do not exist in sephiroth's *da file so ingame they will look messy. So what I want to do is actually enter those animations in the *da file so that the script from Cloud's *ba file will actually play the animation that I want in that certain spot.
As an example, Sephiroth has no animation for taking damage. With his own ba file he will just do nothing when hit, with Cloud's he will shortly disappear so that script works and tries to play a certain animation from the da file which is however not there. How hard can it be to just copy Seph's parry animation and paste it in the da file where the script expects his animation for taking damage. To do this however I have to understand how I can locate certain animations in the da file and for that I must know why it has so many animations how the IDs relate to that and so on....
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Leet
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I believe the information you are looking for and needing to change is in the models **ab file. So cloud is rtab.
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meesbaker
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You are right after all, leet. Messing the *ba isn't all that hard and completely fine. Thanks to akari's notes that I just found I know exactly what to do and I am halfway done. Thanks!
http://wiki.qhimm.com/view/FF7/Battle/Battle_Animation/Animation_Script
You are right after all, leet. Messing the *ba isn't all that hard and completely fine. Thanks to akari's notes that I just found I know exactly what to do and I am halfway done. Thanks!
http://wiki.qhimm.com/view/FF7/Battle/Battle_Animation/Animation_Script
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genesis063
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You could also use the final battle Sephiroth as he does have hit animations.
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meesbaker
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Good advice but Im fine with the parry animation I find it looking really good actually. Now I have a fully animated Seph battle model, only Cloud's limits looking a bit weird cuz his skeleton does not fit. Another funny bug, obviously some animations also come with sound effects? Im using the last part of Sephs “cast magic“ animation for manip/sense n so on and it always does the magic sound which is ok for most commands but kinda weird when tossing items. Still Im over all quite happy, being able to look at the animations by ID in kimera made hex editing the ba file super easy basically just changing any byte below 8e that does not appear in sephs animation list in kimera by an animation that kinda fits better.
I was also able to load Cloud's limits from magic.lgp on sephs model in kimera by hex editing the bone count in the beginning of the .a00 file to 30. Unfortunately Seph is mostly invisible (or extremely far away) on most frames so it is kinda impossible to rearrange the model in each frame to look good with Cloud's limits. If it was possible Id definately do the hand work. It cant be that we still dont have a proper omnislash with sephs original skeleton
I was also able to load Cloud's limits from magic.lgp on sephs model in kimera by hex editing the bone count in the beginning of the .a00 file to 30. Unfortunately Seph is mostly invisible (or extremely far away) on most frames so it is kinda impossible to rearrange the model in each frame to look good with Cloud's limits. If it was possible Id definately do the hand work. It cant be that we still dont have a proper omnislash with sephs original skeleton
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genesis063
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So wait hex editing makes it a bit more compatible with other animations to be able to load them? Also would you possible considering doing that little hex edit thing with the Sephiroth models I am using? I would do it myself but hex editing in way beyond me without a advanced interface like with pictures and such. Also do you know how to use Dan's hex tools because I can't get the extractor to work?
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meesbaker
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I use uglp by luksy. It even has gui for super lazy dudes as me.
https://www.ff7catalog.com/threads/8580/
Sure I can fix your ba file just send me a link with pm. Apart from lgp packing you need no extractors, all animation files are uncompressed.
For compatibility you maybe misunderstood me. To make clouds limits work on seph you just need to use his animation scripts. It will look very funny though, I tried to fix that by loading the animations in kimera on seph so I can rearrange em but that makes kimera crash unless you hex edit the animation file you load first so that it contains the correct bone count.
https://www.ff7catalog.com/threads/8580/
Sure I can fix your ba file just send me a link with pm. Apart from lgp packing you need no extractors, all animation files are uncompressed.
For compatibility you maybe misunderstood me. To make clouds limits work on seph you just need to use his animation scripts. It will look very funny though, I tried to fix that by loading the animations in kimera on seph so I can rearrange em but that makes kimera crash unless you hex edit the animation file you load first so that it contains the correct bone count.
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