Partial .DAT EditingFollow

Hey all, I'm interested in moving pieces of .dat animation from one .dat to another. An example include taking Lih Pituu's(Mithra at boneworking guild) id1 animation (when she's standing idle with her hand on her waist) with the standard mithra idle position. Or transferring her walk animation to the standard mithra. I've seen a video where someone has done this, and was wondering if anyone knew how this could be accomplished.

What I know so far:
If you use the model viewer to pull up Lih Pituu's model, (1-4-64.dat) you can look over the animation numbers associated with each movement. Make sure this is enabled under settings, as: "Show Animation DAT Numbers". If you scroll down to id1 animation you will notice it says "The motion being displayed.1-4-64.dat in "id10" 1-4-64.dat in "id11" 1-4-64.dat "id12" combined and displayed.

I opened up the .dat file in wordpad and got some major garbage, but while scanning over it a bit I noticed pieces of the file that relate to "id10" "id11" and "id12", which means the animations are stored in that .dat file. However, I don't know how to transfer them from .dat to .dat, I converted the file to .MQO, but I don't think that transfers the animations along with it. It seemed to just transfer the model information, vertexes, faces, etc. If anyone could help me out with this that would be great, thanks again.

-Hanayaka

Edited, Thu Oct 13 20:46:26 2005 by Hanayaka