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i cant find sitting animation in fiddler?

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 4:02 am
by rambo53
fiddler is great and i started use it only 3 days. but i cant find sitting animation for male(female). where can i find these bmp files? thanks.

Re: i cant find sitting animation in fiddler?

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 4:31 am
by Yukiko
I might be remembering correctly who explained this to me. It was a long time ago.

I was told that there is no separate animation for sitting. I think it was Luth who explained that the seated animation is pieced together by the client when a character is on items designated as "sittable". He said that the client has those items hardwired into it and when a character is on one of them the client "cuts" the standing animation and places it to appear as seated. At that time I was having a problem where my characters would appear naked in the game window when they were wearing custom clothes and were seated. Somwhere along the way this problem fixed itself. I assume one of the client updates corrected the issue.

I hope this helps you.

Re: i cant find sitting animation in fiddler?

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 6:05 am
by rambo53
Yukiko wrote:I might be remembering correctly who explained this to me. It was a long time ago.

I was told that there is no separate animation for sitting. I think it was Luth who explained that the seated animation is pieced together by the client when a character is on items designated as "sittable". He said that the client has those items hardwired into it and when a character is on one of them the client "cuts" the standing animation and places it to appear as seated. At that time I was having a problem where my characters would appear naked in the game window when they were wearing custom clothes and were seated. Somwhere along the way this problem fixed itself. I assume one of the client updates corrected the issue.

I hope this helps you.
thaks for reply.

Re: i cant find sitting animation in fiddler?

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 4:52 am
by Yukiko
You're welcome.

*chuckles*

Although my first line should have been "I might not be remembering correctly...".
I guess that will teach me to proofread my posts before submitting them.

Re: i cant find sitting animation in fiddler?

Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 2:18 am
by xeon
Yes Yukiko you're correct, sitting animation is generated by the client.

An ever-useful link is this: http://sorea.profitux.cz/patching/

Mind that:
"WARNING: Thanks to neizarr from Sphere forum I found that animation numbers above 1000 decimal (that's 0x3E8 hex) will not be displayed if your character is sitting! It does not matter if you patch those animations into verdata.mul, or directly in anim.mul, or if you even have no own animation at all and redirect it with body.def. It will not work. So you should not use this high animation numbers at all."

That's sadly true, I confirm it first-hand.
So, if you plan to give to your players custom animation for their PCs, be sure to use a slot with id < 1000.

Re: i cant find sitting animation in fiddler?

Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 5:58 am
by Yukiko
Thanks Xeon for the extra info. I'll try to keep that in mind if I ever add more custom clothes (God forbid!!!).