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[Amazor'dra]

How would you go about attaching a paperdoll (plt file) to an existing Animation ID?

For example, DROW - 32551 or ELEMENTAL_FIRE - 29456 both have functional avatars, but lack paperdolls. I've already created the necessary plts, it's just the matter of figuring out how to attach them.

From what I looked through the mod Longer Road, they've managed to create a paperdoll for Irenicus, and it looks like they had to create a custom spell out of it, but I am not 100% certain.

Help please.

[Miloch]

You can create paperdolls as BAMs as well, but if you've already got the PLTs then you just need to make sure they're in the correct naming format. And that is generally the first four characters of the animation BAMs followed by "inv", so for the drow it'd be mdroinv.plt. If that doesn't work, put the number 1 before inv (mdro1inv.plt) because some paperdolls support different armour levels (1 through 4). If that still doesn't work, try installing Infinity Animations first, because it has code to support paperdolls for animations which otherwise don't support them (and as this is hardcoded in the .exe, the only way to enable it is to patch it). Then add your paperdolls into the override folder and see if they work.

[Sam.]

How would you go about attaching a paperdoll (plt file) to an existing Animation ID?

For example, DROW - 32551 or ELEMENTAL_FIRE - 29456 both have functional avatars, but lack paperdolls. I've already created the necessary plts, it's just the matter of figuring out how to attach them.

From what I looked through the mod Longer Road, they've managed to create a paperdoll for Irenicus, and it looks like they had to create a custom spell out of it, but I am not 100% certain.

Help please.

See here for a general layout. Some animations do not natively support a paperdoll, but Infinity Animations has apparently added support to some of those (such as the "U" series). [And it seems Miloch posted while I was typing...]

Edited by Sam., 29 May 2010 - 11:19 AM.

[Amazor'dra]

Thank you for the advice. I was able to get the fire elemental paperdoll to work, but not the drow one. None of these file names seemed to work, even when I exported an existing plt to try to attach to: mdroinv, mdro1inv, mdro2inv, mdro3inv, mdro4inv, mdro11inv, mdroginv, mdrog1inv, mdrog2inv, mdrog3inv, mdrog3inv, mdrog4inv... well, you get the picture. With Infinity Animations installed.

Looks like I'll be having to create at least one custom animation slot with my own naming scheme. Just as well, I suppose.

[Miloch]

I know I've gotten this to work with the ghoul slot (mghl) after the .exe patch from IA. That shouldn't be a whole lot different than the mdro slot. I used a BAM but I doubt that makes a difference. Still, you could try that anyway. If that doesn't work, maybe the .exe patch just needs to be tweaked a bit.

[Amazor'dra]

From the additional info hunting that I've done about this, some slots are said to be more receptive to bams than plts. If it helps any, besides my own custom plt I specifically tried out CHMWINV.plt from Moinesse Avatars and an exported version of CEMF1INV.plt